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Leveraging the power of geodata in the (re)insurance industry

Geodata has many applications in the insurance sector, ranging from risk management and determining insurance premiums to carrying out reporting activities. Christopher Guider of GfK GeoMarketing uses maps of Japan to unravel some of the more...


GeoSearch Tracks U.S. Geospatial Employment in Q3 2012

A survey of companies that employ geospatial works reveals U.S. organizations’ current and future hiring plans.



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News Update

New Apps for Arlington National Cemetery and other Government GIS News

Arlington National Cemetery on Monday made available to the public a massive electronic database detailing the gravesites of the roughly 400,000 people buried there. ... It can be accessed through the cemetery’s website...


Advancing Strategic Science: A Spatial Data Infrastructure Road Map for the U.S. Geological Survey

The National Academy of Science’s Committee on Spatial Data Enabling USGS Strategic Science in the 21st Century released Advancing Strategic Science: A Spatial Data Infrastructure Road Map for the U.S. Geological Survey. What's it...


Google and Friends Launch Privacy-focused Crowdsourced Image Blurring Service in Germany

The service comes in response to legal issues Google has run into in Germany. The country memorably allowed individuals to "opt out" of Street View display of their homes/businesses. Google and several other companies have...


Prizes for Mashups and other GIS Contest News

Now in its 4th edition, the API Mashup Contest is the place where you can submit your API Mashup and win prizes along with mentorship to take your application to the next level. The last edition of the API Mashup contest saw more...


Nokia Bringing Suburban Workers into Chicago, Hiring More to Grow Traffic/Location Team

Nokia will change the wokplace of some 150 from the suburb of Itasca to an address in the Chicago Loop (downtown). The Itasca Mobile Phones Xpress Internet Services group, which works largely in cellular Web browsing, will now work...




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Open Source: First U.S. Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Lab and other Education GIS News

We are pleased to announce the establishment of first Open Source Geospatial Research and Education (OSGeoREL) Laboratory in the United States at the Center for Earth Observation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh. The...


Remote Sensing: Google and Friends Launch Privacy-focused Crowdsourced Image Blurring Service in Germany

The service comes in response to legal issues Google has run into in Germany. The country memorably allowed individuals to "opt out" of Street View display of their homes/businesses. Google and several other companies have joined...


State and Local Government: New Apps for Arlington National Cemetery and other Government GIS News

Arlington National Cemetery on Monday made available to the public a massive electronic database detailing the gravesites of the roughly 400,000 people buried there. ... It can be accessed through the cemetery’s website...




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Press Releases

International Mapping Associates & Equator Maps have released the Antietam Battle Map app for the iPad


Winners of the 2012 GeoPlace Exemplar Awards are Announced


Indoor Navigation System for Smartphones Wins Prestigious European Satellite Navigation Competition 2012


Actian and Attunity Join Forces to Simplify Real-time Big Data Warehousing


The OGC Forms GeoPackage Standards Working Group


Rolta Establishes Gold Tier Partnership with Esri


TerraGo Technologies Delivers Data Integration and On-Demand Map Book Production Solution to DHS for Wide Area Recovery & Resiliency Program (WARRP)


Directions Magazine and Pitney Bowes Software Host Web Mapping Webinar next Tuesday


SuperPad 3 selected by Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia for Sustainable Forest Management


Final Program Released for MAPPS/ASPRS Joint Specialty Conference in Tampa, Florida




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