Is the new Location Graph Just Psychographics Revisited?

Last week location-based ad company JiWire announced a new ad service to help marketers target specific audiences based on location data it has collected from mobile devices. The product, Location Graph, uses the data to create...

Designing an Open Source Geospatial Solution to Manage Airport Noise and Operations - Part 2

In "Designing an Open Source Geospatial Solution to Manage Airport Noise and Operations - Part 1," author Dennis Wuthrich described OpenNOMS, a modular and Open Source suite of applications for managing airport and flight noise information and...

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News Update

NGA Wants Input to Update App Procurement Process

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is seeking to change how the Agency procures and provisions Information Technology (IT) in order to meet expanding mission requirements given budgetary constraints. This Request...

Trulia News: IPO and Settlement with CIVIX

Last Friday Trulia, the real estate information and ad network company, filed for a $75M initial public offering. It's competitor, ZIllow, had an IPO last year and raised $69M. - BusinessWeek Among the details revelaed in the...

Microsoft Check-in Patent Application

The patent application, 20120209685, is titled CHECK-INS TO COMMERCIAL VENUES and distinguishes itself from existing check-ins, like those from foursquare by being optionally public, private or anonymous. It was filed February 15,...

Dept of Labor Adopts URISA’s Geospatial Management Competency Model

Per @daviddibiase: URISA's Geospatial Management Competency Model adopted by U.S. Dept of Labor. You can find the document on the URISA website. Directions did a podcast reviewing the competencies. Remember this is not the...

New Geo APIs - 8/20/12

iGeolise Travel Time API: The service provides estimate of travel time from a given location to a list of destinations and a specified travel mode such as walking, driving, train, bus, etc. It also provides a map of the fastest...

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Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications: GIS Helps Expand Recycling Courtesy of EREF

Raleigh, N.C.-based EREF also has come up with a way to take that customized data and determine any correlations that might explain why a recycling program isn’t doing so well in a particular area, the organization said in a news...

Health: Tracking Disease via Air Travel and other Health GIS News

Researchers have developed "a user-friendly Web-based GIS tool: the Vector-Borne Disease Airline Importation Risk Tool (VBD-AIR), to help better define the roles of airports and airlines in the transmission and spread of vector-borne...