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All Podcasts & Videos | Directions on the News | Special Topics | Videos | Events | SponsoredBut a multibillion-dollar proposal to provide broadband Internet access using satellites and a network of 40,000 antennas could interfere with their [GPS] devices. This could potentially make it harder for first responders to find emergencies, aviators to fly and drivers to navigate.
This is the podcast version of a Directions OnPoint interview with Vanessa Lawrence, Director General, Ordnance Survey, UK.
On April 27, 2011, one of the worst outbreaks of tornadic activity struck North and Central Alabama. Today's weather forecasting systems employ geospatial information and technology. In this podcast, you'll hear an interview with one of the top weather forecasting technologists in the U.S., Bob Baron of Baron Services.
Ted Morgan, Skyhook Wireless' CEO, was interviewed by Editor in Chief Joe Francica on the privacy issues that surfaced when the Wall Street Journal revealed that Google and Apple were allegedly collecting location data on their cell phone clients. Skyhook's "wi-fi-based" location technology is used by some handset manufacturers to support location-based services.
This is the podcast version of the Directions OnPoint webcast of the interview with Mark Reichardt, the president and CEO of the Open Geospatial Consortium. The OGC is involved with a number of standards bodies that impact the geospatial technology sector. It is because the industry has grown over the past few years to become integrated with so many other technology sectors that the consortium's importance and impact has also grown.
This interview with Rob Gorrie, president of ADCENTRICITY, takes a look at where location-based advertising meets digital out-of-home (DOOH) media. What's DOOH? Think... video ads at gas pumps and in elevators plus all those digital billboards in Times Square or the Ginza. How do you target consumers in this new media? Location matters. Listen to this fascinating interview that will address how target marketing is expanding into the realm of social networking and LBS.
In this Directions OnPoint, Arnulf Christl, president of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), is the guest of Editor in Chief Joe Francica and Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg. The interview focuses on the mission of OSGeo to inform more users about the options afforded by open source solutions. He also discusses the prospects for the future of proprietary versus open source business models.
Our dependence on foreign oil in the United States is very much in the news, seemingly on a daily basis. And with nuclear power now questioned as well with the disaster at the Fukushima diiachi plant in Japan, we continue to search for alternative fuels. This podcast explores a new geospatial dataset just released by CoreLogic with attribute information to support land owners and exploration companies about the Marcellus Shale and the rich natural gas deposits found within it.
Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI) completed its goal of its "X in '10" strategy of bringing several new products to market in 2010. As 2011 begins, John O'Hara, president, provides an update on how it will tactically execute on bringing new, cloud-based solutions to its customers. And MapInfo the product? O'Hara says the product continues to evolve but also becomes part of the overall strategy of building lines of business around solutions for vertical markets such as insurance. While before, PBBI sometimes went to marketing separately as either MapInfo or Group 1, O'Hara's goal is to address the client's needs holistically... from data quality and assurance through location intelligence and analysis. Listen as Editor in chief Joe Francica and O'Hara discuss the company's recent shift in the executive suite since O'Hara's appointment to his position last August.
This interview with Mike Liebhold was conducted for Directions OnPoint and is archived here as a podcast. Mike Liebhold, a distinguished fellow at the Institute For The Future in Palo Alto, California, currently focuses on the mobile web, abundant computation, immersive media and geospatial foundations for context-aware and ubiquitous computing. Previously, Mike was a Visiting Researcher, Intel Labs, working on a pattern language based on semantic web frameworks for ubiquitous computing.
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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