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Newsletter for Thursday, June 21st, 2012


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The center of the geospatial technology conferences in Europe seems to be gravitating toward Holland. Jan Willem van Eck provides a synopsis of recent events and describes a diversity of scope that bodes well for continued growth prospects.
Geomatics Atlantic is the current name of the conference hosted in the Maritimes for the past 25 years. Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg compares the issues facing our peers to the north in 2012 with those here in the states.
All Points Blog
Welcome to Waze Version 3.2, where you can find the cheapest gas station around you or along your route, navigate there with one tap, and update its current gas prices in real-time for the community. But it gets even better! Waze has teamed up with gas partners, and now at ... Continue reading
A complex new digital map with more than 100 switchable layers comprehensively showing coal and wind energy resources for southwest Wyoming is now available to the public. A second part detailing oil, gas, oil shale, uranium and solar resource information along with the ... Continue reading
The radio show OnPoint produced out of WBUR in Boston (aka my station) will take on the new 3D mapping in its second hour (11 am EDT) today. interestingly, the guests are not from Google or Apple. They are: Steven Levy, a senior writer at Wired magazine and author of In The ... Continue reading
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has issued the first certificates in its one-year geographic information systems program. Seven students received the professional certification from the 18-credit program, which began this past fall. For those who are unclear: ... Continue reading
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has shut down the facility where its staff created a three-dimensional model used in planning the raid against Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. NGA said the decision was driven by belt tightening and that it will ... Continue reading
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QGIS Maps Precincts and other Open Source GIS News
Daniel Lathrop, News Applications Editor at the Dallas Morning News used a few tools in buiding a map of  how black and Hispanic candidates fared in the first round of voting May 29 in each... Continue reading
Earthmine 3D for Emergency Response and other Government GIS News
Columbia County, CA is investing $75K for 3D technology to enhance emergency response. The data will be updated every two years. I immediately thought this was a discussion of a Pictometry... Continue reading
New Wyoming Coal and Wind “Map” and other Government GIS News
A complex new digital map with more than 100 switchable layers comprehensively showing coal and wind energy resources for southwest Wyoming is now available to the public. A second part... Continue reading
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LAR-IAC is a collaborative body made up of Los Angeles (LA) County agencies, local municipalities, and educational institutions that cooperatively pool funding resources to support the acquisition of geospatial data for the LA County region. The LAR-IAC data is the most...
Power flow infrastructure, communication networks and intelligent devices are the key blocks that build Smart Grid. In addition, there are several software systems (some of them existing and others new) that are essential to support these building blocks such as...
Today's market demands experts who can not only utilize GIS technology, but who can also maximize its use to create solutions to a range of organizational challenges. We call this ability the "GIS Sixth Sense." Do you have it? Download American Sentinel...
Last year, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck just miles from Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince. More recently, massive earthquakes have also struck Christchurch, New Zealand and Japan’s east coast, shocking and devastating local residents and providing a...
All business needs information to make decisions and never more so than in our ever-changing world. Providing the right information at the right time is never going to be a simple task. Enhancing data by adding information about location will add real value to...
Oracle Spatial 11g, an option for Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition, provides advanced spatial capabilities to support geospatial applications, location-based services, and enterprise spatial information systems. Oracle Spatial extends the core location...
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