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NASA Radar Assessments of Water Extent along River Levees - Earthzine

Every spring, precipitation and snowmelt in the central U.S. leads to high water levels in the Mississippi River and its tributaries, with concurrent flooding and levee damage a near-yearly event.This video provides...

The State of Dept. of Defense and NGA GIS Procurement

What is the Dept. of Defense doing with its Enterprise Software Initiative? Why is the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency asking for input on its prodcurement of apps? Does this tell us anything about the state of the...

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News Update

McLean’s Smell Maps are Hot Stuff

The Scotsman reports on a map of Glasgow. No information on where it might be viewed, but I found it.. A DESIGNER from Edinburgh College of Art has created an unusual map of Glasgow – charting its smells rather than its...

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...

Singapore Wins International Geography Competition and other Education GIS News

Singapore students have come out tops in the 9th International Geography Olympiad (iGeo) held in Cologne, Germany. The team obtained two gold and two silver medals, which put the team first among 32 countries. ...This...

Why is County Mapping Data Six Years Behind and other Government GIS News

Saline County [MO] Assessor Margaret Pond said the assessor's office is six years behind on its mapping. E911 Director Stacie Smith and GIS Technician Brandon Wolfe provided a plan to unclog and update the system. Smith estimates...

Collecting Data and Opinions on Guns in Serbia and other Crowdsourcing GIS News

On 6 September, SEESAC [South Eastern and Eastern European Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons ] will launch an online platform designed to test the idea that guns are entrenched in Serbian society and...

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Location Intelligence and Business Geographics: Romney Taps GIS Company Buxton for Data Mining

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has employed a geospatial technology company for data mining to identify likely donors to the campaign. The Buxton Company was cited as the company...

Location-based Services: Pin a Post from Banjo and other LBS News

Pin a Post, a free application that goes live in Apple and Google app stores today [8/23], lets users save social media posts emanating from a specific spot that they want to refer back to later. “It’s Pinterest for location,” said...

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Press Releases

Accela Announces Release of Mobile App for Code Enforcement Officers

Intergraph® Wins Contract with Santos for SmartPlant® Enterprise for Owner Operators

Genscape and DigitalGlobe Provide Expert Analysis of Nation’s Energy Infrastructure Using High Resolution Satellite Imagery

Esri to Present GIS and Location Analytics Session at SAP for Utilities Conference

OGC Announces Health Mapping Webinar

NexTraq and FleetCor Launch the NexTraq Fleet Fuel Card

OnTerra Systems Introduces TheHelpMap.com—A Mobile Web Map App to Empower People to Help Each Other During Disaster

F4Devices Now Available Through Esri

Dewberry Welcomes Expertise of James Stephens

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