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Google Maps for iOS is here and other Apple Mapping News

Yes, it's here: Google Map for iOS. It's in the Apple App Store. Who gets it? The new Google Maps app is available for the iPhone and iPod Touch (4th gen) iOS 5.1 and higher, in more than...


Top 5 Location Intelligence and Analytics Articles for Fall 2012

Editor in chief Joe Francica picked out the top articles in location intelligence and analytics from the last three months. If you missed them the first time around - here's an opportunity to catch up!...


NORAD Santa Tracker Drops Google Goes to Bing Maps and Azure

I learned that NORAD Santa is changing map platform providers via Pocket Lint and confirmed it in the Norad Santa partners list. Google is not listed but but Microsoft, Bing Maps and Azure are!...



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More Analysts Chime in on Suggesting Apple Should Buy TomTom

Back in September, after Apple released iOS 6 with Apple Maps, I suggested in an artcle that the fiasco was indicative of a lack of understand of what it takes to do an Internet mapping application well and that Apple should Acquire...


Call for 2013 Predictions for the Geospatial Marketplace

Next week Joe Francica and I will review our predictions from Dec 2011 and see how well we anticipated what occurred in the geospatial arena in 2012. We'll also share our predictions for 2013, as has become a tradition on the...


Harare Gets GIS and other Government GIS News

Harare City Council is set to digitalise its operations through the Geographical Information System (GIS)... The early benefits to the Zimbabweian city are expected to include upping the number of people in the city who pay...


Microsoft Researchers Decrease GPS Power Need ... via the Cloud

In a paper titled, "Energy Efficient GPS Sensing with Cloud Offloading", Microsoft researchers propose a potential solution to this battery power and size dilemma. This paper describes cloud-offloaded GPS (CO-GPS), an innovative...


What India Learned from Mapping Health Clinics and other Health GIS News

The Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH) which had been asked to asked by [sic] the government to do GIS mapping of all primary health centres and suggest locations for new PHCs to cater...


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Open Source: OpenPlans iOS Public Transit Kickstarter Effort Shuts Down; Money to be Returned

Back in July, once we learned that Apple had taken public transit directions out of its mapping app, the folks at OpenPlans launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund and open source public transit solution: With the announcement of iOS...


Remote Sensing: NORAD Santa Tracker Drops Google Goes to Bing Maps and Azure

I learned that NORAD Santa is changing map platform providers via Pocket Lint and confirmed it in the Norad Santa partners list. Google is not listed but but Microsoft, Bing Maps and Azure are! There's also a Windows Phone app this year....


State and Local Government: Harare Gets GIS and other Government GIS News

Harare City Council is set to digitalise its operations through the Geographical Information System (GIS)... The early benefits to the Zimbabweian city are expected to include upping the number of people in the city who pay for the...




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Press Releases

Bluesky Aerial Photos Help Keep Birmingham Moving


Locata Confirms Extraordinary Positioning Results Obtained by the USAF During Independent Testing at White Sands Missile Range


World-First Locata Achievement Leads to U.S. Air Force Contract for New Non-GPS Based Positioning System


exactEarth Announces Triple Digit Growth in 2012


Exprodat’s Petroleum ArcGIS Training Courses Go Global


Esri and JMT Technology Group Project Wins Momentum Award


United Arab Emirates Police Officers and Firefighters to Receive Training in Esri Geospatial Technol


Talend and Melissa Data Partner to Advance Data Quality for All Organizations


Europa Technologies deploys viaEuropa service for SeaZone


GeoComm Hired by North Dakota to Complete Statewide Public Safety GIS Project




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