New Resources for GIS Job Seekers

If you took a break from your job search over the summer, September might be the right time to jump back into the fray. Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg has collected some new resources that can help GIS job seekers in their quest....

In memory of Wolfgang Bitterlich, one of the early innovators in geospatial analytics - Between the Poles

Last week a memorial event was held in Ottawa for Wolfgang Bitterlich, one of the early technical innovators in spatial analyics. Here is a retrospective provided by Geoff Zeiss, one of Bitterlich's former colleagues....

Try Directions Magazine's New GeoWebMaps: The free cloud based mapping service enables you to easily create custom maps from your Excel, dBase, and CSV files.

Upcoming Webinars

Learn About TomTom Geospatial for Oracle: Use Cases and Experiences
Thursday, September 20
Sponsored by: TomTom

Serving Public Health Through Open Health Mapping Services
Wednesday, September 26
Sponsored by: Directions Media and the Open Geospatial Consortium

Getting the Data Right - Data QC for the ArcGIS Environment
Thursday, October 4
Sponsored by: Esri

News Update

LizardTech Releases Express Server 8 with New Usability Features

With the increased volume of imagery now available, and with the expectations of continued growth for earth observation image data, users are finding challenges for image management. LizardTech, known for its image compression...

Esri to Host New “TED-like” Event Directed by Richard Saul Wurman

Regular attendees to the Esri International User Conference might remember Richard Saul Wurman. He gave the keynote in 2010 (press release, APB coverage). It was about his project 19.20.21. I confess that I didn't quite follow his...

Engaging Cuyahoga County and other Crowdsourcing GIS News

In August the chief editorial writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer challenged readers to suggest a way to remap Cuyahoga County. He noted the county now has 38 cities, 19 villages and two townships, an arragement far too complex to...

Update 2: Gettysburg Electric Map Up for Auction

Scott Roland, the Hanover businessman leading a push to revitalize downtown, said Friday night he won the Electric Map at auction for $14,010, the final bid price listed online. Roland, who owns Blue Ridge Holdings and in May...

Wanted: Citizen Scientists to Help Map Asteroid

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's spacecraft Dawn recently shot imagery of the asteroid Vesta, and it's time to make sense of all that data. The AsteriodMappers project invites the public to explore high resolution images of...

The International LiDAR Mapping Forum
Colorado, Denver, February 11-13 2013 Three-day technical conference and exhibition focused on airborne and bathymetric LIDAR, with a particular emphasis on mobile mapping systems.

Channels

Cloud Computing: Using the Cloud to Get Around Location Restrictions and other LBS News

Cloudnymous is a "cloud-based VPN service offers "true" anonymity and protection of the user's data through strong encryption protocols, according to the firm -- and may be of particular interest to those trying to circumvent...