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Home | Submit Press ReleaseSimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to introduce aerial triangulation (AT) as part of its Correlator3D™ photogrammetry suite. SimActive’s AT is an automated process based on unique algorithms for tie point extraction and advanced minimization techniques for bundle adjustment. Leveraging the GPU and multi-core CPUs, rapid AT is possible...
VPAC Ltd, a recognized research service provider of advanced and high performance computing, is pleased to announce today that SuperMap, a leading global GIS software company, has appointed VPAC as its non-exclusive authorised distributor of SuperMap’s entire suite of GIS products in Australia, commencing the 4th of January, 2013.
SuperMap’s comprehensive product suite includes:
- ...
Supergeo cooperated with Department of Applied Economics & Management of National Yilan University and Yilan Leisure Farming Development Association to...
Companies Worldwide Working With Business Intelligence Leader to Enhance Reporting Environment for Better Data Access
New York, NY and the NRF Show Floor – January 14, 2013 – Today at the 102nd National Retail Federation (NRF) Conference and Expo, Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions,...
Think you might want to further your education with a degree, certificate or even just a few classes in geospatial technology? Directions Magazine will host a webinar about furthering your education on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at 2 p.m. Eastern. Participants include:
- Stephen McElroy, Ph.D., GIS Program Chair, American Sentinel University
- Steven Hick, GIS Director, University of...
- The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has adopted the OGC Wide Area Motion Imagery Best Practices Document (WAMI BP) as an official OGC Best Practice.
The OGC WAMI Best Practices Document recommends a set of Web service interfaces for the dissemination of Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) products. It describes a performance centric, scalable grammar and schema that enable globally...
Creating the GISociety
Salzburg, July 2 – 5, 2013
Audience. The interdisciplinary GI_Forum attracts an international GIScience audience with the goal of promoting interest in translating theory, methods and techniques into a broad range of GI application domains. Young researchers are especially invited to contribute and discuss their research. Together with recognized...
TORONTO, CANADA-- Intertainment Media Inc. is pleased to announce that together with Toronto-based Avenza Holdings Inc., developers and marketers of computer software for the mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) and mobile mapping sectors, have jointly, on a 50/50 basis, acquired the assets of Poynt Corporation by recommendation of the Receivers, Alberta-based Hardie and...
Rolta Wins $31 M Contract from Memphis Light Gas and Water for Oracle ERP Project
Alpharetta, GA, January 10, 2013 – Rolta International, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded a $31 M+ contract, to be executed over the next two years, to provide consulting, systems integration and software services to the largest three-service municipal utility in the United States, Memphis...
Explorers from Around the World to Mark 125th Anniversary of National Geographic
WASHINGTON (Jan. 10, 2013)—Have you ever wanted to ask a question of the man who discovered the remains of the Titanic, the primatologist who pioneered field research on wild chimpanzees or the explorer who made the first solo dive to the ocean’s deepest point?
Robert Ballard, Jane Goodall and James...
Jan. 11, 2013, SPRINGFIELD, Va. — National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency received a Joint Meritorious Unit Award for the extraordinary contributions made to the warfighter and national defense from Jan. 1, 2008 to Dec. 31, 2010. The award was formally presented by Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter during a ceremony at NGA headquarters, Jan. 11.
The Joint Meritorious Unit...
Esri today announced that it will provide Phoenix, Arizona-based Intellimed International Corp., a major health care data and analytics company, with updated demographic data for its future health care forecasting and planning projects with hospitals.
Embedded Esri demographics will allow Intellimed's IntelliClient software to provide health care data that's better than...
As part of its commitment to continually improving the quality and security of the data it works with, the GeoPlace management team is dedicated to maintaining the organisation’s internationally recognised ISO standards: ISO27001 Information Security and ISO9001 Quality Management Standard.
Both of these standards have been applied to the whole of GeoPlace’s business, specifically...
OMG plc, the company behind motion capture technology used in the medical and movie industries, is set to transform the management of North American highways with a range of innovations from its highways technology arm Yotta DCL. At a special event held in Washington DC (the Transport Research Board 92nd AGM 13-17 January 2013), Yotta DCL will launch Horizons, its innovative web-based...
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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