Is IBM the next Major GIS Player? What should we make of Google My Maps?

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A recent Wall Street Journal article got Joe Francica thinking: could IBM be the next big GIS player? What about that company could make it possible? The editors explore that idea and ponder what the addition of My Maps, a tool for end users to annotate maps in Google Maps, might mean for Google and its mashup partners.

The podcast is 14 minutes long (< 6 Mb) and was recorded on April 9, 2007.

• Is IBM the Next Major GIS Player? (All Points Blog)
• Spatial Information Management (SIM) - Then, Now, Next (Directions Magazine)
• IBM

Customs, ports and border management
Law Enforcement (video)

• Intergraph

Geospatial Intelligence Exploitation
Incident Management & Emergency Response

• CH2M HILL Looks to Gain Upper Hand as the Dominant Geospatial Systems Integrator (Directions Magazine)

• Google My Maps: The Business Case (All Points Blog)
• MashUp Startups Respond to Google My Maps (All Points Blog)
• MyMaps - feature or lock-in attempt? (Matthew Ingram Blog)
• Adena's First My Map
• Ledger Blog on My Maps (The Ledger [Florida paper] blog)
• Faneuil Media's Atlas Mashup