Podcast: Four Technologies That May Soon Impact Geospatial - Are You Ready?

By Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg
May 12, 2008

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The editors look outward to find technologies that will impact how geospatial products and practices will change in the next 12 to 24 months. Some of the suggested technologies are already appearing in cutting edge products, others are not yet implemented in geospatial solutions, but we expect to see them soon.

Show Notes

Dash Express
Whrrl
Rafe Needleman on Whrrl (Webware)
Navizon (from Mexens)
Cloud Computing(Wikipedia)
WeoGeo
SANZ Looks to Backruptcy or Sale (All Points Blog)
WiMAX for cars (WiMAX Blog)
SQL Server (Microsoft)

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the cloud is key (#1) by Dale Lutz, Safe Software
Date: May 15, 2008 12:29 PM

Just listening in from Where 2.0, interesting podcast tonight.

I wanted to chime in and particularly agree that the Cloud is a key thing to watch and holds the potential for great change in our industry. Perhaps not change as much as advancement, because it removes the infrastructure barrier that often prevents/has prevented ideas from being able to scale.

Dale

PS: I’d also agree with Joe on the database front too, esp as spatial continues to become a “full type” in more and more and more database systems (even some niche ones). Exciting days ahead.

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