Are you trying to make sense of the cloud and what it has to offer? SpatialCloud is one of the players that wants to help you out. Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg spoke to Mark Korver, CTO and Joshua McNary, marketing manager about the company's flexible commercial Web services now in beta.

In this interview with the Chair-Elect of the Coalition of Geospatial Organizations, COGO, Geney Terry speaks about how the organization can effect better communication among its members and what that might produce in being better advocates for the broader geospatial community. Editor in Chief Joe Francica spoke with Terry about COGO's current initiatives and what her objectives are in helping to facilitate COGO's "voice" in legislative issues before Congress and broadening the organization's outreach in education and professional development.

In mid-March Twitter rolled out the second part of its geolocation functionality. In addition to being available for developers via its API, users could now share location information from the twitter.com website. That's when the world learned that Twitter had tapped geodata company Maponics to provide the "place" information for those tweets. On March 24 Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg spoke to Maponics CEO Darrin Clement about the value of context in location-based services, how Maponics was working with Twitter, the state of geographic basemaps and the potential uses of real-time geodata.

Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI)'s product, MapInfo, was synonymous with desktop mapping. But times change and PBBI must change too. In this interview with Jon Winslow, global manager of the location intelligence portfolio of products for PBBI, Editor in Chief Joe Francica explores how the company intends to leverage cloud computing, open source software and other technologies to adapt to the next growth phase for geospatial technology.

In March, Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg learned about a geospatial professional who is splitting his time between serving as the GIS manager for a Colorado county and serving as a volunteer with GISCorps, helping the United Nations build a GIS to address the rebuilding of Haiti. Chris Markusun shares the challenges and rewards of his dual lifestyle.

Did you ever wonder about the differences between addresses determined by geocoding using liner referencing and point addresses? How are they acquired and when is one or the other the right tool for the job? Do you know what next generation 911 is and how GIS will fit into it? Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg spoke with the team from Digital Data Technologies, Inc. to tackle those questions and more.

If anyone can provide a perspective on the "consumerization" of satellite imaging and its impact on the profession of remote sensing science, it's Kass Green, President, Kass Green and Associates. Editor in Chief Joe Francica recently sat down with this true remote sensing rock star in Scottsdale, Arizona and they discussed the impact of Google Earth on remote sensing, privacy issues, and how change detection applications of remotely sensed data might well become just another feature provided by Google.

If you think that geocoding and reverse geocoding are mature technologies, ones only likely to have minor tweaks in the coming months and years, then you need to learn about Geolenz, a company that's putting more context, more information, and more customization into those two processes. Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg spoke with CTO and co-founder Brian Knoth about the company's newly launched services.

Wayfinder NYC was the big winner in this month's Big Apple Apps competition, which pitted apps that use public information against one another for prizes. The app uses location-based technology, data and augmented reality to help you get around New York City. Steven Lao and Victor Sima tell the story of how the app came to be, the surprising challenge they faced and introduce their newest app which covers Vancouver's transportation system, just in time for the Olympics.

Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg spoke with Dr. Diana Sinton of the University of Redlands, one of the organizers of January's GeoDesign Summit about geodesign, the success of the summit and what interested geospatial practitioners and designers can expect going forward. This conversation is one in a continuing series of conversations with geospatial insiders and outsiders.