What to Expect in GIS in Fall 2012

The long northern hemisphere summer is over and the geospatial industry is gearing up for fall. What should we expect? What would we like to see? Our editors get listeners ready for the next few months....

Does Your Local Government Need A Drone?

Will the skies soon be congested with low-flying drones taking unwarranted photos of you or your neighbors? While the prospect for unmanned aerial vehicles in use by your local government is high, many political as well as technical challenges...

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News Update

Stage Two of Online Shopping: Don’t Deliver to my House

At first, everyone was excited about Amazon shipping books right to the door. Then they got excited about having everything shipped right to the door - shoes, bath tissue and even fresh groceries. That I argue was phase one of...

Using the Cloud to Get Around Location Restrictions and other LBS News

Cloudnymous is a "cloud-based VPN service offers "true" anonymity and protection of the user's data through strong encryption protocols, according to the firm -- and may be of particular interest to those trying to circumvent...

New Zealand Building Industry Pushes for National Permitting System and other Government GIS News

Building industry and government agency representatives in New Zealand have proposed a national online system for building permitting which would save money and increase interoperability in BIM and GIS systems. Supporters suggest it...

SPOT 6 Nearing Launch

UPDATE: Spot 6 Now in Orbit From the Indian Space Research Organization: Countdown Commences for the Launch of PSLV-C21 Carrying French Satellite SPOT 6 and Japanese Satellite PROITERES The...

What’s More Interesting Than the Atlantic Article on Google Maps?

In short, that a tech publication would bother to discuss the article with an actual cartographer. The article in question came out in The Atlantic last week, titled, How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of...

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Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications: Update: $3.7 Billion Reasons Why GIS Technology is The Future

You may have read that headline in a press release at Directions Magazine or elsewhere on the Web. The related sentence in the text reads: The proof is in a new report from Pike Research. Findings indicate that spending on GIS...

Health: Medical Insurance Map and other Health GIS News

The U.S. Census Bureau has a new interactive online program that shows health insurance coverage as of 2010 for the nation's 3,140 counties. In general, an interactive map on the site, http://www.census.gov/did/www/sahie/index.html...