The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Mentor-Protégé Program Builds Partnerships

The United States Department of Defense established the Mentor-Protégé Program in 1990 to provide major DOD prime contractors incentives to those serving as mentors and developing technical and business capabilities in small, disadvantaged,...

NGA Wants Input to Update App Procurement Process

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is seeking to change how the Agency procures and provisions Information Technology (IT) in order to meet expanding mission requirements given...

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Twenty-Two Companies form In-Location Alliance to Enhance Indoor Positioning

The 22 companies listed below announced the In-Location Alliance Thursday morning. The purpose of the group: The Alliance will focus on creating solutions offering high accuracy, low power consumption, mobility,...

Baltimore in 3D for Tourists and other Government GIS News

Ayers Saint Gross, a Baltimore architecture firm built 3D Baltimore InSite for $40,000. For now it's just on the Web but mobile versions are in the works. Since the database of Visit Baltimore's member information (the source for...

TomTom Puts Foursquare in its App and other LBS News

TomTom's navigation app for iPhone and iPad receives a small refresh with today's version 1.11 bump. The new update brings with it the most recent TomTom map data, new methods for choosing destinations and modifying routes, and...

Winner of Remote Sensing Energy Challenge and other GIS Contest News

The commercial winners of the Remote Sensing Energy Challenge on the Spatial Energy have been announced. No word yet on student winners. The commercial winners are: Adrian McCardle and Parwant Ghuman from 3v Geomatics Inc.of...

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Open Source: Ex-Game Developers Building SimCity Interface for Utility GIS

Ergon Energy delivers electricity in Queensland, Australia. It's "experimenting with open source gaming engines and physics models in an effort to capitalise on a massive geospatial data set from its ongoing laser-mapping project." That...