Retail Real Estate Company, EDENS, Goes Mobile with Spatial Data iPad Application “FOReM”

EDENS, a shopping center development company, is working to deliver a new way for its employees to visualize and access spatial data. The company has a new mobile application that not only allows users to access and display spatial data in the...

Six Pieces of Advice for Mapmakers as Learned from Hurricane Isaac

Last week the news was all about Hurricane Isaac. All sorts of maps beyond those of its predicted course filled government and media websites and blogs. Old apps were refreshed and new ones announced. A week later, we look back and...

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Medical Insurance Map and other Health GIS News

The U.S. Census Bureau has a new interactive online program that shows health insurance coverage as of 2010 for the nation's 3,140 counties. In general, an interactive map on the site, ...

New Geo APIs - 9/05/12

ikiMap API: IkiMap is a web service that allows users to create, organize, classify and ultimately share personal and public georeference information over the the web. The ikiMap is a set of several maps that visualize all the...

Quote of the Week - 9/5/12

“Quite frankly, where [Stevens County] is at, they have the airport, they have the runway, they have the plane, now they need a pilot, They've got everything together but they're missing the important piece to take off, and that's...

OGC participates in 2012 Air Transportation Information Exchange Conference

The Open Geospatial Consortium is participating in the Air Transportation Information Exchange Conference this week. Nadine Alameh gave a presentation on the scope and schedule of the ongoing OGC Web Services testbed, OWS-9. Luis...

Luxembourg’s Cadastre Solution and other Open Source GIS News

The cadastre administration in Luxembourg uses open source software solutions where possible. This type of software was used, for example, to build its latest online service, a wizard that makes it easy to order cadastral...

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Location Intelligence and Business Geographics: Retail Real Estate Company, EDENS, Goes Mobile with Spatial Data iPad Application “FOReM”

Location-based Services: New Apple Geofencing Patent Limits Phone’s Features Based on Location

One patent, among a number awarded to Apple at the end of August, is titled "Apparatus and methods for enforcement of policies upon a wireless device," U.S. Patent No. 8,254,902. It sets parameters for how the phone should behave (ring or...