Google Now Owns Seven deCarta LBS Patents

Bill Slawski noted the change: I noticed earlier today that deCarta transferred 7 patents to Google in an assignment reported at the USPTO as being executed on July 31st and recorded with the...

Microsoft Completes Global Ortho Project for US/Western Europe (30 cm/aka 1ft imagery)

Microsoft wants you to know: Today, the Bing Maps team announces the completion of its ambitious mapping effort, Global Ortho Project, for the United States. In two years, the Bing Maps...

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News Update

The State of Geotargeted Messaging and other LBS News

Cruse says one of the next “big things” he thinks will start gaining more traction is geographical information systems, or “GIS”. Already in use in some places, GIS would allow a person with a smart phone to receive messages from...

Quote of the Week - 8/30/12

News that a federal court fund that Texas' redistricting plan violates the Voting Rights Act appeared yesterday. Among the court documents is this statement from the court on the state's claim the chief mapmaker was not aware of the...

Vote to Fix This! via SeeClickFix

This list of trash piles was in the online version of the Philadelphia Daily News. You can "vote" up a site that you want fixed (it's unclear if anyone is watching the votes or acting on them). The full map (Google Maps based) shows...

McLean’s Smell Maps are Hot Stuff

The Scotsman reports on a map of Glasgow. No information on where it might be viewed, but I found it.. A DESIGNER from Edinburgh College of Art has created an unusual map of Glasgow – charting its smells rather than its...

Update: $3.7 Billion Reasons Why GIS Technology is The Future

You may have read that headline in a press release at Directions Magazine or elsewhere on the Web. The related sentence in the text reads: The proof is in a new report from Pike Research. Findings indicate that spending on GIS...

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Cloud Computing: Aerial Services, Inc. Suspends R&D on SpatialCloud Service

After noting that the SpatialCloud.com website was no longer available, I contacted parent company Aerial Services, Inc. about the subsidiary's status. I received this official statement: During the course of the last year, Aerial...