Six Pieces of Advice for Mapmakers as Learned from Hurricane IsaacLast week the news was all about Hurricane Isaac. All sorts of maps beyond those of its predicted course filled government and media websites and blogs. Old apps were refreshed and new ones announced. A week later, we look back and... 
Union Pacific Railroad: Location Intelligence and the “Internet of Things”Trains and railroads don't have the "coolness" factor like tablet computers. The transportation industry just doesn't have that same "wow" factor as mobile computing. Perhaps it's time to... Try Directions Magazine's New GeoWebMaps: The free cloud based mapping service enables you to easily create custom maps from your Excel, dBase, and CSV files. News UpdateLuxembourg’s Cadastre Solution and other Open Source GIS NewsThe cadastre administration in Luxembourg uses open source software solutions where possible. This type of software was used, for example, to build its latest online service, a wizard that makes it easy to order cadastral... 
New Apple Geofencing Patent Limits Phone’s Features Based on LocationOne patent, among a number awarded to Apple at the end of August, is titled "Apparatus and methods for enforcement of policies upon a wireless device," U.S. Patent No. 8,254,902. It sets parameters for how the phone should behave... New Geo Portals: India, Mesoamerica and CaribbeanThe project, a joint one from the U.S. government and India, moved to public beta on Sept 3. The current offerings include 13 raw datasets and four apps. None are in geospatial format, but atleast one of the the .xls or .txt files I... 
Google Now Owns Seven deCarta LBS PatentsBill Slawski noted the change: I noticed earlier today that deCarta transferred 7 patents to Google in an assignment reported at the USPTO as being executed on July 31st and recorded with the patent office on August 28th. ...... 
Microsoft Completes Global Ortho Project for US/Western Europe (30 cm/aka 1ft imagery)Microsoft wants you to know: Today, the Bing Maps team announces the completion of its ambitious mapping effort, Global Ortho Project, for the United States. In two years, the Bing Maps Imagery team has collected every square... ChannelsEnergy, Utilities and Telecommunications: Update: $3.7 Billion Reasons Why GIS Technology is The FutureYou 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: Documents that Changed the World podcasts: John Snow’s cholera map, 1854 - Univ. of WashingtonThe Documents that Changed the World podcast series is the brainchild of Joe Janes, a professor in the UW Information School. He uses the series to investigate the backstories and often evolving meaning of important historical documents, both... Webinars on Demand
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