Experts: Location Intelligence unlocks the power of your data

Yellowfin's James Lachlan provides an overview of the market research that has been published by Gartner, Ventana Research and others on the applications of geospatial technology with other enterprise applications....

Meet Your Colleagues: Brock Adam McCarty

As we continue getting to know our colleagues in GIS, this week we meet Brock Adam McCarty, owner of Apollo Mapping.

Call for Presentations: Location Intelligence Conference and Oracle Spatial and Graph User Conference

Directions Magazine and Oracle are collaborating to offer consecutive events over two days in Washington, DC. This is a valuable opportunity to share your knowledge with a respected audience of geospatial and information technology professionals. Directions Magazine and Oracle Bring the Power of Place to Business and Government ... come join us.

Upcoming Webinars

Location Intelligence and Analytics: Market Research Benchmark
Tuesday, October 16
Sponsored by: Directions Magazine and Ventana Research

Directions OnPoint: Introducing touchgeo - An HTML5 Mobile Data Collection Solution
Wednesday, October 17
Sponsored by: ISC/MapDotNet

Learn About TomTom’s Global Geocoder - Technical Overview and Business Cases
Thursday, October 18
Sponsored by: TomTom

News Update

Teachers Teaching Teachers GIS 2013 and other Education GIS News

Esri is looking for 100 pre and in-service teachers to attend its Teachers Teaching Teachers GIS Institute (T3G) professional development workshop next year. It's for K-university teachers, admins and others. There will be special...

Planners Use GeoTech and other Government GIS News

With GIS, at least, the participants are able to speak a common language. The maps include locations of priority development areas, environmental resource areas, transportation lines, water resources, agricultural and historical...

Survey: UK Met Crime Map is Overwhelming for Users

Surveys carried out by the Home Office found that many people did not want to wade through the large amounts of raw data on the street-by-street crime maps. The www.police.uk service, went online last February (APB...

Update: uDig Wants Input on License Change

And, the winner is a dual EPL/BSD license: The Project Steering Committee has accepted an RFC making uDig available under a dual BSD and EPL license. This is an excellent compromise between using BSD to share code with projects...

City Cemetery Mapping $35k and other Government GIS News

The Covington City Council [Georgia, USA] agreed Monday night to pay $35,240 to Omega Mapping Services of Woodbury to create the online database [of cemeteries]. The company will use survey grade equipment to map markers put...

Reduce the Churn in Your Network
In spite of several attempts, telecom operators continue to see increased churn in their networks. Where is the gap? Are all the dimensions being adequately addressed? The four dimensions that need to be addressed effectively are the performance, availability, reliability and security. Infotech leverages its proven delivery framework to reduce time to market and deliver cost and efficiency benefits to over 33 Tier 1 and 2 telecom service providers. Ask us how

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Cloud Computing: CIOs Discuss Creation of a Single Information Technology Computing Architecture for the Entire Intelligence Community

Rob Carey, the Deputy CIO for the Department of Defense and Al Tarasuik, the CIO for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) discussed a fundamentally transformational effort: creating a single IT architecture for the...