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The Week's Most Interesting Geospatial News - January 11th-17th, 2013
 
 
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GIS Business Model Check-up

If you work for a GIS company, it has a business model and a plan to make money. But how successful is that business model? Has it been compared to the latest best practices and tweaked to best match customers’ needs and expectations? It may be...

 
 

Privacy 2013 Style: Exploring New LBS Devices and Services

License plate identification, picture-taking drones and GPS tracking devices are legal in certain cases and their users may have only the best of intentions. So, what could possibly go wrong if these tools are deployed...

 
 

Attention Shoppers! aisle411’s Indoor Location App is a Hit with Top Retailers

The advancing technology to make navigation more personal and relevant is becoming manifest in the applications being developed for indoor location and positioning. Editor in Chief Joe Francica spoke with aisle411’s Kris Kolodziej about how...

 
 

US Topo - A New National Map Series, 2012 Update

The U.S. Geological Survey's Larry Moore provides an update on the US Topo effort, the Survey’s general purpose, digital, quadrangle map series. He outlines the successes thus far and the obstacles still ahead in 2013....

 
 

Latest to Use GIS to Get the Public Involved: FBI

The Federal Bureau of Investigation now hosts a map of unidentified bank robbery suspects. It uses geotagged security camera photos of bank robbery...

 
 
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Everything You Need to Know about Landsat 8

NASA held a press briefing on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), the eighth satellite to be launched in the ongoing Landsat mission. Read the details on the mission's status....

 
 

Recent Developments in Remote Sensing for Human Disaster Management and Mitigation - Spotlight on Africa: An Overview

The following article is the introduction to a new book by Dr. Christoper Lavers of the Britannia Royal Naval College entitled "Recent Developments in Remote Sensing for Human Disaster Management and Mitigation- Natural and Man-made 2013 -...

 
 

Drones: War machine today, helpful tool tomorrow - NPR Marketplace

When you hear the word drone, images of warfare or high-tech surveillance come to mind. But the former editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine and a young Tijuana programmer have a different idea. They believe drones will...

 
 

Intertainment Media and Avenza Systems Acquire Poynt Corporation Assets

TORONTO, CANADA-- Intertainment Media Inc. is pleased to announce that together with Toronto-based Avenza Holdings Inc.,...

 
 

Safe Software Releases FME 2013

New FME Version Simplifies Data Transformation by Introducing New Capabilities, Formats, and Tools Vancouver, BC, January...

 
 
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