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| Demonstrating the Benefits of pSDIs: Guidance for Managers
| Public spatial data infrastructures (pSDIs) are great assets, but to secure the substantial resources required to fund them, managers must find a concrete way to express their value. A benefit model can quantify the pSDI's importance to both GIS professionals and the broader community. | | | By the People, for the People
| | A bill introduced in the California State Assembly threatens public access to government geodata. | | | Project Management for Digital Mapping
| | Achieving a successful project outcome is always a challenge. It requires a capable project leader, a well-organized team, lots of planning, and careful execution. | | | Achieving Data Rectification with Position Accuracy Improvement
| | Many markets, including the utility sector, are facing the challenge of matching up their huge investment in datasets with newly developed, more accurate land bases. | | | The MAF/TIGER Accuracy Improvement Project: Managing the Improvement of a National Database
| | With the advent of GPS technology and advances in ground surveying, it has become more difficult to integrate the U.S. Census Bureau's TIGER/Line data with newly collected source data. As a result, the Census Bureau has worked to improve the spatial accuracy of the TIGER database, as well as modernize the tools and methods used for maintenance and updating. Now, the bureau can fully leverage new GPS and portable computing technologies for field operations, as well as facilitate data exchange with partners from both the public and private sectors. | | | Improving Road Safety with Mobile GIS
| | If a motorist can drive on it, take direction from it, or crash into it, there's probably a department of transportation that wants to map it. Now, with the help of mobile GIS, many state and local governments are doing just that. | | | Geospatial Digital Rights Management
| | Before defining geospatial digital rights management (geoDRM) and discussing its benefits, its challenges, and the key technical and policy issues surrounding it, we should begin with an introduction to digital rights management (DRM) in other fields. | | | Formatting Spatial Data
| | Geospatial data formats can be a real bear. When new users come to the world of GIS, they often come with a particular need in mind. Unfortunately, the abundance of diverse storage formats often leaves new users confused and frustrated. But Safe Software's Feature Manipulation Engine Suite (FME Suite) is going a long way toward simplifying the use of spatial data formats for new and veteran users alike. | | | The Many Layers of GIS
| | Imagine a day when accessing geospatial data is as easy as using a remote control to change the channel on your television. The menu would be just as interactive as today's cable or satellite TV grid guides, but selecting a "channel" would bring data streaming in from countless, disparate real-time sensors in the air, in space, and on the ground. Information pertaining to areas of interest would be seamlessly mosaicked and presented for viewing and analysis. A simple combination of button clicks, and you might find yourself immersed in a three-dimensional world of dynamic data. As you traveled through this real-time visualization, the landscape would move relative to your position. In this dimension, you could access and analyze data about any given location or asset, enabling real-time analysis of the natural environment, utility network, retail space, or system you are visiting. And others could join you in this experience to conduct collaborative investigation. | |  MORE ARTICLES
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| NOAA Names First Woman to Direct National Geodetic Survey
| | The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has picked Juliana P. Blackwell as director of the Office of National Geodetic Survey, making her the first woman to oversee the nation's spatial reference system. | | | Colorado County Picks Sidwell's ArcGIS-Based Parcel Builder
| | Pueblo County, Colo. has chosen Sidwell Co.'s Parcel Builder software to enhance and streamline the county's workflow process. | | | AtlasCT Releases Version 3.2 of AtlasWeb SDK
| | AtlasCT has announced the release of AtlasWeb SDK 3.2, an application programming interface (API) for Internet-based maps and GIS applications development. | | | Trimble Acquires KOREC Software Assets
| | Trimble has acquired the FastMap and GeoSite software assets from KOREC, a privately held Trimble distributor serving the United Kingdom and Ireland. | | | Avenza Introduces Flash Exporter for Maps
| | Avenza Systems has announced the inclusion of its MAP Web Author Tool in the newest release of MAPublisher for Adobe Illustrator, version 8.0. | | | ERDAS TITAN 2009 Now Supports OpenStreetMap
| | OpenStreetMap, a free, editable map of the world, has been added to ERDAS TITAN 2009 as the default basemap in the TITAN Viewer. | | | Geospatial Holdings Names David Vosbein President and COO
| | Geospatial Holdings, Inc., has announced the promotion of David Vosbein, formerly executive vice president of worldwide strategic initiatives, to the position of president and chief operating officer. | | | Image Web Server 2009 Available for Linux, Sun Solaris
| | ERDAS has expanded the availability of its Image Web Server 2009, announcing versions available for Linux and Sun Solaris operating systems. | | | NAVTEQ Inks Brazilian Distribution Deal with SANTIAGO & CINTRA
| | Digital map data supplier NAVTEQ has established a reseller agreement with SANTIAGO & CINTRA CONSULTORIA, a Sao Paulo, Brazil-based GIS consulting company. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| How to Justify a Large-Format Scanner, Part 1
| | Some background information and a few general considerations help lay the groundwork as you consider this major hardware investment. | |
| How to Justify a Large-Format Scanner, Part 2
| | A new tool helps to calculate potential return on investment so you can make a sound decision to purchase this hardware — or not. | | | Autodesk Launches Topobase 2007
| | New CAD/GIS infrastructure design and management software for utilities is based on C-Plan system acquired last year. | | | Someone to Watch Over Us
| | From a recent experiment conducted at a clothing store in a mall, Michel Berthiaume, an associate researcher at the GeoBusiness Group, Universit? de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, discovered something surprising about teenagers. For better or for worse, approximately 80 percent of them are willing to surrender some of their privacy and allow someone to track their movements. | | | Event Report: ESRI 2006
| | Company reveals plans for increased GIS/CAD interoperability at recent user conference in San Diego. | | | Integrating CAD and GIS Data to Enable Better Intelligence
| | When seconds count, security depends on robust interoperability among all the systems that routinely provide information about the real world to bus drivers, electricians, and everyone else.
| | | Avatech's AutoCAD Google Earth Connector
| | These days, it's essential that large construction projects build broad support from a number of stakeholder communities. Communicating the design through a visualization technology is a required step in larger construction projects. | | | Come Together...Right Now
| | To manage and publish a modern public works map, a GIS specialist in a city's public works department often needs to work through a backlog of field updates and as-built information about the precise locations and details about the city's buildings, roads, bridges, sewer systems, and other infrastructure. Thank goodness the data are readily accessible just across the hall in the city's CAD (computer-aided design) system. The engineers there can take care of sending it on over before lunch. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| Mass-Market Geo Drives the Industry
| | Web-based geospatial applications that anyone can use are making geospatial technology ubiquitous. The success of these applications, however, depends on a variety of Internet and Web standards, as well as those provided by geospatial standards development organizations and initiatives. Standards are key for technology diffusion between mass-market applications and traditional geospatial technology markets. | | | Crafting Complete Spatial Data Distribution Models
| | Many data providers allow customers to order online, but in many cases product fulfillment is still a manual — and time-consuming — process. The City of Surrey and three other spatial data providers employed an ETL solution to build systems that emphasize the "e" throughout the process. True self-service models ease the data processing burden for personnel, and shorten product delivery times. | | | Bringing JPEG 2000 into the GeoWeb
| | JPEG 2000 (JP2) is quickly becoming an accepted file format for storing large amounts of geospatial imagery. And a number of groups around the world are taking the next step -- bringing JP2's capabilities into our geospatial networks, or in other words, the GeoWeb. | | | The Web of the Future — GeoWeb 2006
| | The World Wide Web is no longer about passively surfing and reading, but about doing — sharing, socializing, collaborating, and creating. And this phenomenon is having an impact on the geographic Web, or the "GeoWeb." | | | Is Web Technology Disrupting Traditional GIS?
| | Perhaps accidentally, Google exposed the deficiencies of traditional GIS by tapping into what GIS end users really want: simplicity, accessibility, immediacy, responsiveness, and low cost. | | | Building Connections between Canada's Water Data
| | How can a country that's almost 10 million square kilometers in area and has a large percentage of the world's freshwater — and disparate jurisdictions responsible for that water — integrate water data collected at myriad source points? Canada's ResEau initiative is attempting to do just that, as it prototypes a new way of accessing and managing water information across jurisdictions through the use of open geospatial standards. | | | The View from Google Earth
| | How do the executives at Google Earth see themselves in relation to the broader geospatial marketplace? Are their products impacting business for other commercial imagery providers, and if so, how? Google Earth's Chief Technology Officer Michael Jones answers these and other questions, and provides a hint or two about the popular virtual globe's future. | | | Mashing Up the Enterprise
| | Popular culture has a history of using and abusing language, and the wheel of change seems to spin faster and faster. It took years for a sofa to become a chesterfield and a tissue to become a kleenex, but now hardly a day goes by without a new piece of trendy terminology springing up. Rip (as in CDs), burn (also for CDs), tivo (as a verb), blog (noun and verb), google (verb), podcasting or podslurping (not as yucky as it sounds), and now, mashup. | | | The ROI of Geosciences Interoperability Standards
| | For years, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has worked to assimilate its research outputs of Earth observation and predictions into the decision support systems of its federal partners and other stakeholders by using interoperability standards that promote open information sharing and discovery. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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