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Newsletter for Wednesday, January 25th, 2012


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In this issue...
  • Socium: 1Spatial’s Online Data Validation Service Launches in US
  • Why LiDAR Has Become the “Go To” Technology for Utility Corridor Mapping
  • New Malaria Risk Maps and Data and other Health GIS News
  • Safety Map: Planning Ahead for Disaster
  • Nokia Shuts Down NAVTEQ Network for Developers
  • San Diego (Open Data) App Challenge and other GIS Competition News
  • Site Maps Northern Ireland’s Troubles and other Education GIS News
  • Channels
    • Location Intelligence and Business Geographics: Real Estate Industry Offers Huge Entrepreneurial Opportunities Using Geospatial Technology
    • Location-based Services: San Diego (Open Data) App Challenge and other GIS Competition News
  • Sponsor Zone:
    • Webinar: Del Taco Uses Advanced Spatial Analytics for Successful Retail Growth
    • Webinar: Retail Analytics in an Enterprise Cloud with Oracle Spatial and Oracle Site Hub
    • Webinar: Going the Distance - Pursuing a Graduate Degree Online - Part Two
    • Webinar: Consolidate Your Security Systems – Geospatial examples from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Microsoft
  • Press Releases
  • Jobs

 

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Today's Stories
Socium, a subsidiary of 1Spatial, is launching an online data validation service in the United States on February1st. Directions Magazine interviewed Abbie Beckford, customer relations and marketing manager at Socium, to learn the details of the offering.
In December, Infotech Enterprises and DTS GIS participated in a Directions Magazine webinar to present a cost-effective solution to the NERC-mandated transmission line monitoring. This webinar sparked more good questions than could be answered during the allotted time. Here those answers are presented in detail.
All Points Blog
In a study published in the Malaria Journal, a multinational team of researchers from the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP), funded mainly by the Wellcome Trust, present the results of a two-year effort to assemble all available data worldwide on the risk of Plasmodium ... Continue reading
You may have read about Depiction's Depiction Prep (APB coverage, press release). Safety Maps is another offering in the same space: a solution for coordinating in case of a disaster. But it's different. Why? 1) It has some serious geo/carto power behind it in its ... Continue reading
A NAVTEQer, writing at Google+ (publicly): Well, it seems that "The Powers That Be" (Read: Nokia Location & Commerce division) decided to pull the plug on our group, the NAVTEQ Network for Developers and we were all given 2 weeks notice to shut the whole developer network ... Continue reading
Mayor Sanders and the City of San Diego are challenging the software developer community to create new apps using city and partner data. They’re also inviting the public to share their ideas for innovative new apps. Winners will receive $50,000 in cash prizes as well as ... Continue reading
A team of researchers at the University of Ulster’s Magee campus has created a unique online resource that sheds new light on the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’. The £260K Arts & Humanities Research Council-funded project - called Visualising the Conflict – combines an ... Continue reading
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Channels
Real Estate Industry Offers Huge Entrepreneurial Opportunities Using Geospatial Technology
How big is the real estate industry? Did you know it is larger than all investments in the stock market? So, given its enormity, what entreprenuerial opportunities exist for using geospatial... Continue reading
San Diego (Open Data) App Challenge and other GIS Competition News
Mayor Sanders and the City of San Diego are challenging the software developer community to create new apps using city and partner data. They’re also inviting the public to share their ideas for... Continue reading
Sponsor Zone
Marketing analytics, planning and segmentation, customer insight and more. This webinar will feature several use case successes Del Taco achieved using Alteryx, including reducing the time to insight while increasing the number of what-if scenarios explored in the same...
A Location-Intelligent Master Data Management Solution Concentra, a subsidiary of Humana Inc. and a provider of urgent healthcare, needed a better way to locate its facilities and perform retail and marketing analytics. Oracle and Tango Management Consulting (TMC) tackled...
What Are My Options? Join lead faculty from three top online MGIS programs -- Penn State, University of Denver and Northwest Missouri State -- to learn about what each program offers and what makes each one unique. You’ll hear about the faculty, the courses offered and...
Public safety and chief security directors must have a clear, detailed picture of all relevant information when disaster strikes.  Even during normal operations, having an effective means of locating physical assets and mobile emergency personnel on demand is...
Press Releases
PCI Geomatics
Intergraph Corporation
Mentor Engineering Inc.
Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)
deCarta
NexTraq
Esri
Space-Time Insight
Pitney Bowes Software
Avineon

... More press releases

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