Exclusive Interview: Dr. Walter Scott, Founder, Vice President and CTO, DigitalGlobe

With the impending merger of DigitalGlobe and GeoEye, Dr. Walkter Scott, Founder, Vice President and CTO, DigitalGlobe sat down with Editor in Chief Joe Francica to provide his views on where the company is headed, the budget...

Nepal Agriculture - NASA DEVELOP Summer 2012 @ Marshall Space Flight Center

Can NASA EOS assist in forecasting of daily soil moisture, solar insolation, and temperatures in Nepal? DEVELOP interns at Marshall Space Flight Center used NASA Earth science models and measurements to assist with...

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News Update

New Geo APIs - 9/26/12

GeOAP API: GeOAP is a web service provided by Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. It exposes various GIS (Geographic Information System) methods, as well as a mapping service. GeOAP's SOAP-based API can be used to find the distance between two...

Non-walkable Cities Linked to Increased Risk of Diabetes and other Health GIS News

A new study out of Toronto published online in the journal Diabetes Care inversely links walkable cities and diabetes. Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences examined data from...

GAO Report: Slow Down and Consider Privacy, Security, GPS Spoofing of Drones

A Sept 2012 report to Congress by its research arm, the Government Accountabiilty Office addresses specfic questions: As requested, this report discusses (1) the status of obstacles identified in GAO’s 2008 report to...

Update to China’s Mapping Laws Would Increase Fines for Not Including All of the Country

The key issue seems to be maps that do not show all of China's land claims. Current regulations, drafted in 1995, allow for a maximum fine of 10,000 yuan, which would increase to 100,000 yuan ($16,000) if the new law is...

Tucker Speaks at Washington College and other Other Education GIS News

Dr. Christopher K. Tucker will share his experiences as the Chief Strategic Officer of the CIA’s venture capital fund, In-Q-Tel, in a free public lecture on Tuesday, Sept. 25 at Washington College. The talk will take place at 7...

Future of Nav is a two-day conference, networking and exhibition event taking place in Paris, France on November 28-29, 2012 to discuss the business of turn-by-turn GPS navigation. Speakers include Elektrobit, Garmin, Telmap, Strategy Analytics, GfK, IHS and more. http://www.futureofnav.com

Channels

Location Intelligence and Business Geographics: Risk Mapping at a Broad View

“There is a certain amount of sensationalism about disaster maps,” said John Nelson of IDV Solutions. In this article, Nelson gets deep into discovering the variability of datasets but at the end of the day, maps must communicate a clear message....

Location-based Services: New Geo APIs - 9/26/12

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