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Rich Data, Big Data: A Day at Nokia’s U.S. Headquarters

Nokia staffers spend full days in vehicles capturing the maze of a city’s roads and buildings, plus all the features of the urban wilderness. Editor in Chief Joe Francica spent some time with Nokia executives to better understand what the company...

Top 5 All Points Blog Posts from Fall 2012

Executive Editor Adena Schtuzberg picked out the top All Points Blog posts from the last three months. If you missed them the first time around - here's an opportunity to catch up!

Directions Magazine India Launched - News, articles, webinars and interviews with a focus on India. Subscribe today!

Upcoming Webinars Directions OnPoint: Rapidly Deploying Location Intelligence via the Cloud Thursday, December 20 Sponsored by: Galigeo

News Update

Data.gov Goes Open Source

The team that manages Data.gov is well on its way to making the government data repository open source using a new back-end called the Open Government Platform, officials said during a Web discussion Wednesday. I can't say...

The Latest Evidence that Geography Does not Matter

Public transit is the ultimate place location-based ads. People are in the city and clearly have access to transportation to other parts of the city. I study the ads on the MBTA with care. Here's the headline of one I saw today:...

New Delta GIS Courses and other Education GIS News

Delta College, a community college in Michigan will be offering a new GIS course winter semester 2013 and perhaps a follow up if there is interest. Wendy Baker, associate professor of biology at Delta, was granted a sabbatical to...

Google Offers Google Maps-based Santa Tracker

I noted that NORAD had switched from Google tech to Microsoft's Azure and Bing Maps as the backend to its Santa Tracker. Today comes word that Google will host its own version on Google Maps, as an alternative. While we’ve been...

Latest Skill Requred for Municipal GIS Managers

Another of those precautions was the city acting on [City Councilor Marty] Lorrey's motion to get the bridge included in GPS systems because some drivers have said the systems have not alerted them to take a different route....

Channels

Open Source: Data.gov Goes Open Source

The team that manages Data.gov is well on its way to making the government data repository open source using a new back-end called the Open Government Platform, officials said during a Web discussion Wednesday. I can't say I've...

Remote Sensing: Top 5 All Points Blog Posts from Fall 2012

Executive Editor Adena Schtuzberg picked out the top All Points Blog posts from the last three months. If you missed them the first time around - here's an opportunity to catch up!

State and Local Government: Data.gov Goes Open Source

The team that manages Data.gov is well on its way to making the government data repository open source using a new back-end called the Open Government Platform, officials said during a Web discussion Wednesday. I can't say I've...

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Press Releases

Intergraph® Launches Geospatial Portal 2013

CartoDB and Azavea Announce Partnership Agreement

Check out the program of MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica 2013

MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica 2013 Will Feature Courses on Applications of Geospatial Industry

SPOT 6 & SPOT 7, Turkey Steps up Collaboration with Astrium Services

Telogis Releases Major Location Intelligence Platform Upgrade With Telogis Fleet 10

SuperGeo Cooperates with Grupo Ginpro to Promote Mobile GIS Solutions in Latin America

Australian aerial mapping company AEROmetrex becomes a fully certified CASA UAV Operator

RADARSAT-2 images provided in support of disaster relief efforts of Typhoon Bopha in the Philippines

Avenza Releases Geographic Imager 4.1 for Adobe Photoshop

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