You Should “Be Inspired” by Infrastructure Projects

Last week I attended Bentley System's "Be Inspired" Awards Conference where the company presents the finalists and award winners for the top engineering and infrastructure projects submitted from around the world. Having adjudicated this...

Update: The Economist Honors Dangermond and Hanke for Contributions to Geospatial

The Economist, which apparently turned on the article below early, made the awards announcement on Nov 16. Also honored: Garmin. - press release --- original post 11/5/12 --- Jack...

Google’s New Augmented Reality/LBS Game: Ingress

Yes, I know, Ingres is a database once...but with two "s"s it's a game (one you need an invitation to, apparently). It's a game I don't really understand, but also a game for which I don't believe...

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News Update

Thomson Reuters Getting More Geographic

Most of us think of anything with Reuters as having to do with the news media. But, Thomson, with which it merged in 2007, is basically a data company. That makes Thompson Reuters a data mining company, one that announced a new geo...

GISP Mapping Contest Winners and other GIS Contest News

GISCI held its 2nd Annual Poster Contest over the past many months. The challenge: map the GISPs! Here are the winners. 1st Place – Brian Greer (http://www.gisci.org/Contest2012/Finalists/pdfstorage/14-GISP_Poster.pdf)...

Rescheduled: World-Wide Human Geography Data Working Group (WWHGD) Meeting/Broadcast

The event has been rescheduled for Nov 27-28. Registratration is open for in person and webinar attendence. The event now has a title: Human Geography Data and Mapping for Land Use and Communications - website via LinkedIn

TomTom Launches SDK for LBS Apps - What software developers get if they sign up

Today, TomTom announced a new Map Toolkit API. Here's a list of what TomTom is offering to app developers (source: TomTom): Map display web service, which delivers WMS-style raster maps based on TomTom’s flagship MultiNet map...

Wired Magazine Editor Provides Five Clues for the Mobile Future

Greg Williams, the executive editor of Wired Magazine, was the keynote speaker at Bentley System's Be Inspired Awards Event in Amsterdam this week. He delivered a summary that explained how the mobile society is being transformed...

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Cloud Computing: Geoportal.gov Lives!

I did notice that geoportal.gov did not come up once during Hurrican Sandy. And, perhaps here's why: work began on it earlier this fiscal year, per Jerry Johnston, CIO of EPA speaking at GeoINT in October. What work? The development of...