A Brief History of Red and Blue on U.S. Elections Maps

Why are Republicans assigned red and Democrats blue on election maps? Has it always been that way? No, reports Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg, the standard emerged with the advent of television election coverage, electronic maps and the 2000...

The iTunes of Maps: A New Business Model for Map Publishers

In September 2010, Avenza Systems, Inc. released the first version of PDF Maps for the Apple App Store where both free and for-pay versions of maps in the Geospatial PDF format could be downloaded for use with the iOS operating system. Currently,...

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Thursday, October 4
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Tuesday, October 16
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Wednesday, October 17
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News Update

Urban Airship Releases New Geotargeting Service and other LBS News

...Urban Airship is today unveiling its new Location Messaging Service, which will add another layer of information for the company’s push platform to target. It’s a particularly enticing play for marketers, since it...

iGETT: RS Professional Development Opportunities and other Education GIS News

The GeoTech Center announces new professional development opportunities in 2013-2015 related to GIS and remote sensing via the newly refunded Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training: Remote Sensing (iGETT: RS)...

Studies: GIS Good for Utilities, AEC Firms Want to Fix Infrastructure, Apple Maps Uses Less Data

There seems to be lots of money available to do studies. Here are three studies related to geospatial that made the news this week. In a recent Esri study of electric utility professionals, nearly half reported a more than 10...

GEOINT 2012 Preview

The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) has issued this information message for the GEOINT 2012 conference: About 4,000 people from US and foreign intelligence agencies and representatives from the commercial...

ITT Exelis Expecting More Cuts

The cuts will be in Roanoke which currently employs about 1000 people, per Jared Adams, director of communications for ITT Exelis’ Geospatial Systems division. More details are expected next week. Due to anticipated U.S....

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Channels

Open Source: Globe Software and other Open Source GIS News

In the Free Software world, Marble is the name of “a small interactive globe and geographical atlas” for all platforms (including mobile ones) where the Qt libraries can run. At first sight, Marble may seem one of those pretty, but...

Remote Sensing: iGETT: RS Professional Development Opportunities and other Education GIS News

State and Local Government: Pierce County Awards and other Government GIS News

Pierce County Emergency Management and Information Technology (WA) won both a national and international awards competition for its new Damage Assessment Mobile Application. The International Association of Emergency Managers...