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All Podcasts & Videos | Directions on the News | Special Topics | Videos | Events | SponsoredAn InformationWeek survey reveals that just 7% of businesses surveyed are using mashups. Is that true for geospatial mashups? Is it true, as Matt Brown, an analyst at Forrester Research suggests, that "Businesses have bigger priorities at the moment than worrying how to mash up logistical data or workforce information into a mapping app?" This week we look at why businesses are slow on the uptake with regard to mashups, and perhaps geospatial and what it might take to get them involved.
In this week's Directions on the News podcast we dig deeper into offer by Pitney Bowes to buy MapInfo. We will explore the background of this transaction and what it means for partners and resellers of MapInfo. We'll provide listeners with news that will help them assess the long-term impact if they are an existing customer. And we'll examine what the competitive environment might look like as Pitney Bowes encroaches on the location intelligence marketplace occupied by companies like Oracle or ESRI. Join Editors Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg as they weed through the public statements of both companies to provide you with the news you can use. In this week's Directions on the News podcast we dig deeper into offer by Pitney Bowes to buy MapInfo. We will explore the background of this transaction and what it means for partners and resellers of MapInfo. We'll provide listeners with news that will help them assess the long-term impact if they are an existing customer. And we'll examine what the competitive environment might look like as Pitney Bowes encroaches on the location intelligence marketplace occupied by companies like Oracle or ESRI. Join Editors Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg as they weed through the public statements of both companies to provide you with the news you can use.
In this interview Directions Magazine Editor-in-chief, Joe Francica, speaks with Bob Skinner, Group Vice President of Trimble Mobile Solutions about the @Road acquisition and cost saving related to mobile resource management with clients including Coca Cola.
GITA 2007, held last week in San Antonio, covered a wide variety of topics. Our editors take on just two they find particularly significant: the role of professional organizations in grooming the next generation of practitioners and GE Energy's new GIS solutions to be built on Oracle. In the short term the offerings will sit alongside GE's Smallworld solutions.
Do the appearance of CRM for Google and Oracle's acquisition of Hyperion have implications for geospatial? In this week's podcast our editors introduce CRM and BI basics and explore how these announcements could catapult geo integration forward. Also, what does it take for real time traffic and weather to become part of everyone's daily lives? Does Google's addition of traffic to Google Maps and The Weather Channel's new mashup with Virtual Earth help?
In today's podcast, we explore the possible ramifications of Google's recently announced KML Search capability. Is it a big deal? Will it alter the way we decide how and what tool we use to publish geospatial data? Will making KML an OGC/international standard help the geospatial community feel more comfortble with Google's reach into our arena? We discuss these issues and answer some questions you might have about publishing KML files to make them findable by "the Web of places." The podcast is 12 minutes (~ 4 Mb) and was recorded February 26, 2007.
This week's podcast explores Trimble's latest acquistion, new offerings from Autodesk's Geospatial Division, World Wind 1.4, voice enabled navigation and spend some time on the implications on the new Google KML Search, news from 3GSM and the end of the search for Jim Gray.
Joe Astroth, Vice President and General Manager, Autodesk Location Services, talked to David Williams about what Autodesk is offering to the LBS developer community. The podcast was recorded on January 19 and is 20 minutes long.
Joe Francica conducted an interview with Mr. Kapil Sibal, the Honerable Minister of Science, Technology and Earlth Sciences for the Government of India at the Map World Forum. Mr. Sibal's position would be equivalent to a cabinent secretary of the U.S. Government. He is the visionary driving GIS technology adoption within India and his remarks are quite candid with respect to the lack of trained GIS professionals in his country as well as to the issue of the democratization of data, especially remotely sensed data. Included is a discusion of the situation that developed about one year ago with some sensitive data on Google Earth.
In our weekly podcast covering the week's news Adena Schutzberg and Nora Parker look at news about a small bank using GIS, new offerings from EPA and Acxiom, and explore updates from the National Weather Service in how it shares weather alerts, ligitation related to the Brooks Act and new sponsors for OSGEO. Tune in!
Journal News Removes Interactive Gun Permit Map
The Lower Hudson Journal News has been under fire for publishing a map of gun permit holders in two counties in New York State before Christma. (APB coverage 1, 2, podcast). On Friday January 18 the paper removed the interactive map. Why? Publisher Janet Hasson gave answers in a media statement and in a letter to readers.
In a statement in response to The Poynter Institute (a journalism school) she argued:
With the passage this week of the NYSAFE gun law, which allows permit holders to request their names and addresses be removed from the public record, we decided to remove the gun permit data from lohud.com at 5 pm today. While the new law does not require us to remove the data, we believe that doing so complies with its spirit. For the past four weeks, there has been vigorous debate over our publication of the permit data, which has been viewed nearly 1.2 million times by readers. One of our core missions as a newspaper is to empower our readers with as much information as possible on the critical issues they face, and guns have certainly become a top issue since the massacre in nearby Newtown, Conn. Sharing as much public information as possible provides our readers with the ability to contribute to the discussion, in any way they wish, on how to make their communities safer. We remain committed to our mission of providing the critical public service of championing free speech and open records.
In a letter to readers published on Friday she wrote:
So intense was the opposition to our publication of the names and addresses that legislation passed earlier this week in Albany included a provision allowing permit holders to request confidentiality and imposing a 120-day moratorium on the release of permit holder data.
She goes on to say that during the 27 days the map was online any one interested would have seen it and that the data would eventually be out of date. She also noted that the paper does not endorse the way the state chose to limit availability of the data.
The original map/article still includes a graphic - but it's a snapshot, a raster image, with no interactivity. Says Hasson in the letter to readers:
And we will keep a snapshot of our map — with all its red dots — on our website to remind the community that guns are a fact of life we should never forget.
I continue to applaud the paper for requesting the data via a Freedom on Informat request, mapping it, keeping the map up despite threats and criticism and now responding to state law. I think the paper did a service to the state, to citizens and to journalism.
- via reader Jim and Poynter
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