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NASA DEVELOP: Middle East Public Health and Air Quality

This past spring and summer, NASA DEVELOPstudent interns used NASA’s Earth Observing System to examine spectral characteristics of dust storms in the Middle East. The results of this study aided project partners by implementing the use of remote...


New Medicare Payment Map and other Health GIS News

Medicare uses geographic adjustments to pay more in areas deemed to have higher costs of providing care to seniors. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services employs a patchwork of 89 pay...


Learning from Sandy’s Maps

Maps before and after Hurricane Sandy predicted flood damage well. What can mappers do better next time to support high density urban areas that are likely to be impacted by catastrophic storms?



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Geographic Literacy Project Winners and other GIS Contest News

The winners of the first annual Geographic Travels Geo-Literacy Outreach Awards Winners are: First Place - the Alexander Von Humboldt Prize :  Geo-literacy Project on Meghalaya, India Second Place - the Isiah Bowman Prize:  ...


Quaint GIS Headlines

Once upon a time reporters and those at the local paper wrote headlines just for their local paper. That paper didn't travel too far. But now, things have changed and those headlines and stories are available worldwide. That makes...


It’s the Cloud ... Wait, let’s check out those dual processor PCs

There was some irony in the fact that nearly every presentation by Autodesk executives at Autodesk University (AU) this year mentioned the company's migration of its software solutions to a cloud computing environment but its major...


Carl Bass: “I do believe that everything is moving to the cloud.”

During a press conference at Autodesk Univeristy in Las Vegas, Autodesk CEO Carl Bass reaffirmed what he has said for some time that "I do believe that everything is moving to the cloud." Asked to clarify what he meant, he said that...


MapQuest Acquires Everlater and other LBS/Travel News

Back on Nov 13 MapQuest announced the acquisition of a travel site devoted to documenting one's travels. I've never heard of it. Today we are thrilled to announce that MapQuest/AOL has acquired Everlater. For the last few years...




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Open Source: Market the Library and other Government GIS News

The Lansdale, PA library has a $20,000 suplus this year due to successful fundraising. What to do with that money? Buliding improvements such as new carpeting and efficient lighting are among the ideas. So is GIS, but not for patrons, for...


Remote Sensing: NASA DEVELOP: Middle East Public Health and Air Quality

This past spring and summer, NASA DEVELOPstudent interns used NASA’s Earth Observing System to examine spectral characteristics of dust storms in the Middle East. The results of this study aided project partners by implementing the use of remote...


State and Local Government: Quaint GIS Headlines

Once upon a time reporters and those at the local paper wrote headlines just for their local paper. That paper didn't travel too far. But now, things have changed and those headlines and stories are available worldwide. That makes these...




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Spatial Insights Releases Updated Education Databases


High impact data visualization at your fingertips, CartoDB deploys version 2.0 bringing new tools and features


SuperGeo Establishes the Partnership with Zatoca Connect for Hispanic Online Market


Intergraph® Introduces GeoMedia® WebMap 2013


Austin Energy Selects Telvent to Provide State-of-the-Art Smart Grid Solutions


Autodesk and Topcon Announce Collaboration to Improve Interoperability


Exprodat’s End-of-Year Petroleum ArcGIS Training Offer


Governor’s OIT, ESRI, the Colorado Geographic Alliance, DU, & Colorado 4-H Developing a GIS Distance Learning Program


Pléiades 1B confirmed for launch on 30 November 2012


Blue Marble to Feature Global Mapper at ELMF 2012 in Salzburg, Austria




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