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Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland is again hosting a resident week-long summer learning experience for kids in grades 7-12 from June 24 through 30. The program has three different tracks with a focus on marine exploration, 3D visualization and virtual worlds, and CSI crime analysis and predictive modeling. Youth will also come away from the [...]
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The Open Geospatial Consortium has recently released a professionally-produced video that condenses the value of interconnected geospatial data (particularly through sensors) as well as the value of the consortium. The piece uses a multi-narrator approach, where different actors from different nationalities finish each other’s sentences. The result is a compelling global appeal for the value [...]
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Peter Batty provided the introductory talk for a well attended Introduction to Geospatial Open Source workshop today at the FOSS4G event. Batty is the chair of this year’s conference, yet said that he feels he’s in the peaceful neutral zone where he uses both open and closed source software, where there are good and bad [...]
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It’s not likely that we’ll return to the degree of competition in the GIS software space that marked the late 1980s through the late 1990s, when geospatial software platform companies and service providers proliferated. There has been a good deal of maturity in the market with fewer opportunities for newcomers, and a lot of consolidation [...]
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I recently conducted an interview with Paul McRoberts, vice president of the infrastructure product line group at Autodesk. The company has steered away from using the term geospatial in their approach, although they clearly have the design and management of broader geographies within their sites. In fact, they’re taking a multi-scale approach in how they [...]
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Episode four of the Geospatial Revolution video project has just been released, tackling the ability of the technology to quantitatively track change over time in order to meet our desire to know how the earth works. The episode is broken into four chapter that cover the monitoring of climate, prevention of hunger, tracking disease and [...]
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Google just announced the launch of Google Earth Builder this morning at the Where 2.0 Conference, outlining a cloud-based ecosystem for hosting and creating geospatial data. The new tool will be available in the third quarter of this year, and will harness Google’s impressive computing power to enable enterprises to store and access terabytes of [...]
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Corporate executives love the iPad for its ease of use, visual display, and always-on connectivity that helps feed their roles as information filters and vision brokers. The elevated status of this device in the corporate world has in turn led to new ways of presenting and condensing enterprise systems, often within a geospatial context. This [...]
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There have been a lot of geospatial conference changes this year, with the last GITA annual conference just concluded, the GeoWeb Conference canceled, and the GeoTec Event (that I used to manage) planned for only one day this year. While the economy and the high cost of travel are at the root of the problem, [...]
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