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Esri’s Geoloqi Acquisition: Why?

Last week Esri announced at its European User Conference that it had acquired LBS firm, Geoloqi. Our editors look at why Esri might be interested in the firm and the new market areas it might open.


WorldDEM - Reaching New Heights

The German radar satellite, TanDEM-X, is in the process of generating a global Digital Elevation Model - WorldDEM - of unprecedented quality, accuracy and coverage. In this article, William Van Rensalier Parker, associate at PACE Government...



Call for Presentations: Location Intelligence Conference and Oracle Spatial and Graph User Conference

Directions Magazine and Oracle are collaborating to offer consecutive events over two days in Washington, DC. This is a valuable opportunity to share your knowledge with a respected audience of geospatial and information technology professionals. Directions Magazine and Oracle Bring the Power of Place to Business and Government ... come join us.


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Learn About the Google / GeoEye Insurance Solution Set
Wednesday, October 24
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MapInfo Stratus: Innovative Approach for Web Mapping
Tuesday, October 30
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Learn How to Use Oracle’s Spatial and BI Tools for Location-aware Predictive Analytics
Thursday, November 29
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News Update

Visualizing Hubway Data in QGIS and other Open Source/Open Data GIS News

The Free and Open Source GIS Ramblings Blog has a series of posts on visualizing Boston's bike sharing program data in QGIS. One question: do people ride downhill more than uphill? I live in Somerville, we must do both. I wrote...


Summit County GIS Consolidation and other Government GIS News

Summit County, Ohio has four separate GIS groups that include 12 staffers. Legislation before the council would consolidate them to a single group of just 10 people and save $180,000 via staff downsizing and common purchasing. If...


Merck Grant Creates New GLOBE School and other Education GIS News

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional School [Coal Township, PA] has received a Merck "Neighbor of Choice" community grant for the purpose of designing and implementing a Lourdes GLOBE Imagination Station. The station will feature the...


Predicting Malaria Spread with Cellphones and other Health GIS News

Millions of cellphone users in Kenya are helping the fight against malaria. In the Oct. 12 issue of the journal Science, scientists report using cellphone location data to create a map of "sources" and "sinks" of malaria, which...


Esri/Geoloqi Tells iOS Developers How to Replace MapKit with ArcGIS

The ArcGIS SDK for iOS provides just as much and even more functionality as Apple's standard MapKit framework. Some of the vocabulary and terms used may be unfamiliar to those coming from the MapKit APIs.  The single...




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Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications: Esri’s Geoloqi Acquisition: Why?

Last week Esri announced at its European User Conference that it had acquired LBS firm, Geoloqi. Our editors look at why Esri might be interested in the firm and the new market areas it might open.


Health: Predicting Malaria Spread with Cellphones and other Health GIS News

Millions of cellphone users in Kenya are helping the fight against malaria. In the Oct. 12 issue of the journal Science, scientists report using cellphone location data to create a map of "sources" and "sinks" of malaria, which could...




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Attunity Partners with Teradata to Provide Big Data Replication for Enterprise Analytics


Directions Magazine, Google and GeoEye Host Insurance Webinar Tomorrow


The Newest Mobile Survey GIS SuperSurv 3.1 to Be Launched


ALK Technologies Announces PC*MILER|Worldwide 26.1


Unison Networks Limited Selects Telvent for Integrated Smart Grid Solutions


Lauderhill, FL Implements Next Generation GIS Browser


Pléiades 1B set for launch on 1 December 2012


Adapx Announces New Speech and Sketch Interfaces for Faster Mission Planning With Google Earth, Command Post of the Future, and The Army’s Replay Application Framework


New firm Beitz & Daigh Geographics provides Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services.


Technology partnership opens new world of imagery




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