Adena Schutzberg, executive editor, interviewed Google developer advocate Mano Marks about the geoweb and the challenges of aligning it with the special properties, specifically page ranking, possible on the Web. This conversation is one in a continuing series of conversations with geospatial insiders and outsiders.

Adena Schutzberg, executive editor, interviewed PlaceMatters president and CEO Ken Snyder about that organization's efforts to include citizens in planning issues in their communities. PlaceMatters spun out of the Orton Family Foundation, the group behind the CommunityViz software.

Adena Schutzberg, executive editor, interviewed National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) former president Learon Dalby about the 2009 NSGIC annual conference and the organization's advocacy agenda for the coming year. Among the topics explored: authoritative data, social media, the broadband mapping stimulus, NSDI, oversight, and Data for the Nation. This is another in a series of interviews with geospatial insiders and outsiders.

Adena Schutzberg interviewed Jay Tilley, Sanborn's Senior Vice President about why 3D data is important and how the industry is overcoming challenges such as cost, data fusion and the integration of real time data. Tilley also speaks to the future growth of 3D data development and its use in augmented reality applications. This interview is part of a series of interviews with geospatial insiders and outsiders.

In this executive interview, Editor in Chief Joe Francica spoke with David Schell, chairman of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Schell discussed a broad range of topics including OGC's initiatives with other standards bodies, how the economy is impacting OGC's mission, its new Law and Policy Committee and several other issues. Schell helped to found the OGC in September 1994 and served as its first president.

Adena Schutzberg, executive editor, interviewed United Maps CIO and Co-Founder Stefan Knecht about the challenges of collected and conflating data across Europe (and the U.S.), the challenges of mapping public transit and why only a small percentage of cemeteries appear in most commercial datasets. This is the fourth in a series of interviews with geospatial insiders and outsiders.

Adena Schutzberg interviewed eSpatial CEO Philip O'Doherty about Web GIS, its implementation challenges, editing capabilities ("CAD-lite") and future. This is the second in a series of interviews with geospatial insiders and outsiders.

Adena Schutzberg interviewed the Open Geospatial Consortium's Carl Reed about the status of KML, OGC's new role in enabling discipline focused efforts, why GeoRSS seems so hidden, INTERGEO and why the U.S. is behind in using standards. This is the first in a series of interviews with geospatial insiders and outsiders.

Listen to a conversation on BlogTalkRadio with Dr. Kim Rossmo, from the Texas State University Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation, and Deborah Osborne, in which they discuss geographic profiling, investigative failures, and crime and intelligence analysis. Geographic profiling has been utilized in many serial killer investigations but also has applications in analysis of serial arsons, burglaries and sex crimes.

Recently, Editor in Chief Joe Francica met with Greg Bentley, CEO of Bentley Systems, the geospatial and engineering software and solutions company. He sat down with Bentley at his office in Exton, PA and discussed the company's focus on infrastructure, a timely topic given the global investments being made by many countries to stem the economic downturn. Bentley discussed the company's financial position and how the economy has affected revenue performance. He mentioned that the company reached two significant milestones this year: Bentley attained $500M in revenue in 2008 and it will also celebrate 25 years in business.