New GIS Education Options for Fall 2012

It’s "back to school" time once again! K-12 and higher education students are preparing to hit the e-books, but so are many adult learners and working professionals. Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg examines the new GIS education offerings for...

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...

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Update: Today’s Geospatial Job Market
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News Update

Winner of Remote Sensing Energy Challenge and other GIS Contest News

The commercial winners of the Remote Sensing Energy Challenge on the Spatial Energy have been announced. No word yet on student winners. The commercial winners are: Adrian McCardle and Parwant Ghuman from 3v Geomatics Inc.of...

Esri #7 Vendor to DoD at $113M in Sales

GovWin offers a "short examination of the historical spending data on the ESI [Enterprise Software Initiative] program examines which vendors are winning the most business, what COTS software DoD customers are buying, and what the...

Ex-Game Developers Building SimCity Interface for Utility GIS

Ergon Energy delivers electricity in Queensland, Australia. It's "experimenting with open source gaming engines and physics models in an effort to capitalise on a massive geospatial data set from its ongoing laser-mapping project."...

LightSquared Update - New CEO, Chairman - 8/21/12

Doug Smith will be LightSquared's new chairman and CEO. He takes the position from his previous role as co-chief operating officer and chief network officer. He also worked for Clearwire and Sprint Nextel. Despite declaring...

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...

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Location Intelligence and Business Geographics: Is the new Location Graph Just Psychographics Revisited?

Location-based Services: 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...

Telematics Munich 2012 (October 29th-30th) will reveal the latest connected services in telematics. Hand-picked speakers include BMW, Mercedes Benz, Ford, FIAT, Daimler, Toyota, Nissan, Volvo, Volkswagen and Renault Trucks. Dedicated sessions discuss content and connectivity, safety, mobility, insurance and fleet telematics amongst other topics. Click here for more information.