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Newsletter for Thursday, May 10th, 2012


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Location intelligence can enhance sales, marketing and distribution functions in launching a telecommunications brand and establishing retail sites. Mapping of retail outlets provides information about prospective dealer outlets that will establish a network through which products and services can be offered. This is the first article of a two-part series on utilizing location intelligence to organize and understand information through a geographical perspective to make informed decisions about retail marketing. Author Abhishek Bhardwaj, associate consultant for Infosys, uses Bangalore, India as the setting for his analysis.
An article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday suggests that texting, in conjuction with geofencing is catching on with retailers. Geofencing by retailers is not a new, of course but they are willing to try again with new mobile app technology.
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The indoor directions are quite limited; they are available in select airports, malls, and other businesses in the U.S. and Japan. These are the complexes Google announced maps for last November. As for the deals, they include both "now" and "later" deals - but only in the ... Continue reading
Pachube, a vision for integrating sensors to build the Internet of things (my understanding, its definition is below), was acquired by LogMein back last July. I missed that but did note the service back in 2008 (APB coverage). Today, the company now only announces a new spellable, ... Continue reading
Locals in and around Saugerties, NY will add to  iMapInvasives,  New York’s online invasive species database, via a mapping party on May 8. The event starts at the Town of Saugerties Library for an orientation and brief training. Next the volunteers will carpool to the Esopus ... Continue reading
TeleCommunications Systems (TCS) is the "Intel inside" of many consumer mobile communications and navigation services. For that reason, few folks outside the industry have heard of the company. Its customers, carriers you have heard of, use TCS' platform for their branded ... Continue reading
The report by Peter Folger, Congressional Research Service Specialist in Energy and Natural Resources Policy, is titled Issues and Challenges for Federal Geospatial Information and dated April 27, 2012. (full report in PDF, via FAS since these reports are not automagically ... Continue reading
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World Malaria Day and other Health GIS News
April 25 is World Malaria Day. What' new? The World Health Organisation (WHO) has a new initiative in combating malaria called ‘T3: Test, Treat, Track’, which urges malaria-endemic countries... Continue reading
Podcast: GeoEye, DigitalGlobe Head to Altar ... Maybe
GeoEye and DigitalGlobe have been communicating via letter and press release over the last few days. The topic: who might acquire whom. As we go to press neither company has said "yes" but our... Continue reading
Invasive Species Mapping and other Crowdsourcing GIS News
Locals in and around Saugerties, NY will add to  iMapInvasives,  New York’s online invasive species database, via a mapping party on May 8. The event starts at the Town of Saugerties Library... 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...
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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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