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Directions Magazine Editors Look Back at 2012; Make Bold Predictions for 2013

Directions Magazine’s Editor in Chief Joe Francica and Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg evaluate their predictions for 2012 and look ahead. Can they keep up the pace for 2013 and do their bold predictions offer insights into the trends that will...

Top 5 Directions Magazine Podcasts from Fall 2012

Executive Editor Adena Schtuzberg picked out the top podcasts from the last three months. If you missed them the first time around - here's an opportunity to catch up!

Directions Magazine India Launched - News, articles, webinars and interviews with a focus on India. Subscribe today!

Upcoming Webinars Directions OnPoint: Rapidly Deploying Location Intelligence via the Cloud Thursday, December 20 Sponsored by: Galigeo

News Update

Google Offers Google Maps-based Santa Tracker

I noted that NORAD had switched from Google tech to Microsoft's Azure and Bing Maps as the backend to its Santa Tracker. Today comes word that Google will host its own version on Google Maps, as an alternative. While we’ve been...

Latest Skill Requred for Municipal GIS Managers

Another of those precautions was the city acting on [City Councilor Marty] Lorrey's motion to get the bridge included in GPS systems because some drivers have said the systems have not alerted them to take a different route....

Mapping Drug Use in Minnesota and other Health GIS News

TwinCities.com/The Pioneer Press offers a series of maps titled Prescription opiates and heroin in Minnesota based off the ARCOS federal drug data. More interesting to readers of this blog will be the pain required to get the data...

Senator Franken’s Location Protection Privacy Act of 2012 Moving Through Congress

Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota is championing the cause of data privacy -- specifically, he wants to keep the smartphone locations of women and children a secret from stalkers and third-party companies. Franken's new bill, the...

Leave Holiday Shipping to UPS - An Interview with Jack Levis of UPS and Keynoter for the Location Intelligence Conference 2013

If you are doing online shopping this year you are most likely taking advantage of offers for "free shipping." One of the major shipping carriers is obviously UPS. How your packages arrive in a timely manner is a function of...

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Location Intelligence and Business Geographics: Leave Holiday Shipping to UPS - An Interview with Jack Levis of UPS and Keynoter for the Location Intelligence Conference 2013

If you are doing online shopping this year you are most likely taking advantage of offers for "free shipping." One of the major shipping carriers is obviously UPS. How your packages arrive in a timely manner is a function of proprietary...

Location-based Services: Google Offers Google Maps-based Santa Tracker

I noted that NORAD had switched from Google tech to Microsoft's Azure and Bing Maps as the backend to its Santa Tracker. Today comes word that Google will host its own version on Google Maps, as an alternative. While we’ve been...

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Watch Instantly: What Tomorrow’s GIS Workforce Needs to Know About GIS Programming and Development - Are You Prepared?

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White Paper: Strategizing Future-Proof FTTH Business Models—Innovative Approach

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White Paper: The New Paradigm : Leveraging the “Information Cloud” with the Dynamic GIS

White Paper: Business intelligence supports decision-making but location shows you ‘Where is the Business?’

White Paper: Advanced Spatial Data Management for Enterprise Applications

Press Releases

Intergraph® Worldwide User Group Conferences Attract Record 6,850 Attendees in 2012

Ventana Research Launches Location Analytics Research to Uncover Trends in Deployment and Use in Business

FCC’s Consideration of LightSquared’s Requests Must “Not Come at Expense of Critical GPS Services;” Commission Must Conduct Comprehensive Assessment of Costs and Benefits

NexTraq Releases Award-Winning Distracted Driving Solution

Updated Freeway 2012 Drive Time Analysis Software Now Available From Spatial Insights

GSA Awards DLT Solutions Contract Option for Five Year Extension of GSA IT Schedule 70

Yotta DCL brings new Horizons to America

Seven Reasons to Pursue a GIS Master’s Degree

Envitia and OpenGeo Announce Partnership

Jewell Instruments Acquires Applied Geomechanics Product Line

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