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Natural Disasters, Modeling and the Insurance Industry

Despite the uncertainty of trying to predict future events, especially natural disasters, it’s possible to make well-informed risk estimates by taking into account data on past disasters, asset values and weather trends. The key challenge in this...

Case Study: Symmetry Determines Proper Tax Withholding Using Melissa Data’s Rooftop Geocoding

Symmetry Software specializes in payroll withholding tax solutions. Every week, millions of paychecks are issued using Symmetry Software products. Those checks must have the correct taxes taken out based on the codes of school districts,...

Directions Magazine India Launched - News, articles, webinars and interviews with a focus on India. Subscribe today!

Upcoming Webinars Learn about TomTom’s LBS Software Development Toolkit Tuesday, December 4 Sponsored by: TomTom Risk Analysis and the 2011 Tsunami in Japan: Digital Maps in the Insurance Industry Wednesday, December 5 Sponsored by: GfK GeoMarketing Real Estate Market and Applications of GIS for India Thursday, December 6

News Update

Sandy May be Straw that Gets NJ Borough into GIS and other Government GIS News

Chatham Borough, NJ does not participate in its county's (Morris) GIS program. This week the county showed what participation might have meant for residents after superstorm Sandy. No word on if the the borough is in, but it sounds...

Pleiades 1B in Orbit, 24 hour Revisit Soon Available

On Saturday a Soyuz rocket carried Pleiades 1B into space. The French space agency is the lead and the French defense and intelligence services will be a key beneficiary, as will civilian users. The imageyr, with additional ground...

Athletes: Write Your Own Apps for Your GPS Watch

You can in fact do that, but it'll cost you. I don't know anyone who has a $500 Sunnto Ambit GPS watch, but the latest version includes access to an "app store" where you can download and install apps such as predicting your...

Mapping AEDs in Chicago and other Health GIS News

But University of Chicago Doctor David Beiser says few people know where AEDs are located and there’s no central source to find them. “At this point there isn’t one unified database of AEDs in the U.S.,” said Dr. Beiser....

Universal Wayfinding at UC Boulder and other Education GIS News

In a new set of way-finding maps, planters at the University of Colorado Boulder are more than decorative containers. The concrete vessels serve as directional prompts for people to navigate central campus. New, detailed and...

Over 700 of your colleagues from defense organisations will be attending Defense Geospatial Intelligence (DGI) 2013 conference, taking place 21st – 23rd of January in London.

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Cloud Computing: It’s the Cloud ... Wait, let’s check out those dual processor PCs

There was some irony in the fact that nearly every presentation by Autodesk executives at Autodesk University (AU) this year mentioned the company's migration of its software solutions to a cloud computing environment but its major...

Education: Sandy May be Straw that Gets NJ Borough into GIS and other Government GIS News

Chatham Borough, NJ does not participate in its county's (Morris) GIS program. This week the county showed what participation might have meant for residents after superstorm Sandy. No word on if the the borough is in, but it sounds like a...

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Press Releases

Hexagon Acquires 3D City Modelling Pioneer GTA Geoinformatik GmbH

Pléiades 1B Satellite Successfully Launched

URISA’s Vanguard Cabinet of Young GIS Professionals to Host Virtual Informational Sessions

TomTom invites people to “unwrap the world” and win

GPS/GNSS IC Market on Course to Break $2 Billion in 2012

V8i (SELECTseries 3) Releases of Bentley’s SewerCAD, SewerGEMS, StormCAD, and CivilStorm Products Streamline Workflows

The OGC Seeks Participants for Ground Water Interoperability Experiment

Caliper Offers Colombia Data for Use with the Latest Maptitude

Spatial Insights Releases Updated Education Databases

High impact data visualization at your fingertips, CartoDB deploys version 2.0 bringing new tools and features

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