Jan 28, 2009
By:Neal Niemiec
Since its birth at the dawn of the Web mapping era, Autodesk's GIS and design software has evolved into open-source, commercial, and enterprise versions. Today, open-source developers have access to a variety of tools and resources to support their Web mapping projects.
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Nov 25, 2008
By:Sam Bacharach, Carl Reed
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.
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Sep 24, 2008
By:Mary Jo Wagner
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.
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Oct 24, 2006
By:Michael P. Gerlek
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.
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Sep 25, 2006
By:Amielle Lake, Galdos Systems, Inc.
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."
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Sep 1, 2006
By:John Vermes
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.
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 | Jul 1, 2006
By:Laniel Bateman, Tom Kralidis
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.
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 | May 1, 2006
By:Mary Jo Wagner
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.
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Apr 1, 2006
By:Paul Ramsey
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.
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