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| 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. | | | Temporal Analysis and GIS
| | Forward-thinking researchers are paving the way for how GIS tackles the challenges of spatio-temporal analysis. | |  MORE ARTICLES
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| Pearland, TX Upgrades GTG Software to ArcGIS Server Compliant
| | The City of Pearland, Texas, has procured GIS software from Geographic Technologies Group Inc., upgrading the city's Viewer, Crimes, and Dispatch software to the ArcGIS Server environment, according to GTG. | | | NAVTEQ Joins Autodesk's Geospatial Data Initiative
| | NAVTEQ has joined Autodesk's Data Initiative, which provides Autodesk's geospatial customers with online access to NAVTEQ's map data via a co-branded Web site. | | | Cadcorp Scores U.K. Municipality GIS Contract
| | Cadcorp has received a contract from the United Kingdom's Babergh District Council for the supply and implementation of a new GIS based on Cadcorp SIS desktop and Cadcorp GeognoSIS web-based software. | | | Caliper Unveils GIS Data Coverage for New Zealand
| | Caliper Corp. has released GIS data software for the country of New Zealand, enabling the creation of maps down to local level areas for anywhere within the country, according to the company. | | | ISO/TC 211 Committee Using Enterprise Architect to Maintain Models
| | At its 26th Plenary Meeting held at Copenhagen in May 2008, the ISO/TC 211 Technical Committee decided to maintain its geospatial reference models using Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, according to the company. | | | Clark Labs to Software for UNECA Center in Nigeria
| | Clark Labs has signed a memorandum of understanding with Nigeria's RECTAS to equip its training laboratories with the IDRISI and Land Change Modeler software and provide all trainees with free software licenses. | | | TerraGo Debuts Map2PDF Professional for Acrobat 4.1
| | TerraGo Technologies has taken the wraps off Map2PDF Professional for Acrobat version 4.1, following up its release of Map2PDF for ArcGIS 4.0. | | | TITAN 2009 Adds Support for IMAGINE, ArcGIS
| | ERDAS has released TITAN 2009, its geospatial data sharing tool, adding support for additional geospatial applications including its own IMAGINE, Image Web Server, and APOLLO apps, as well as ESRI's ArcGIS. | | | IDV Releases VFX 3.0 for Visual Fusion Server
| | IDV Solutions has released Visual Fusion Experience 3.0, a rich Internet application complement to its Visual Fusion Server. | | | 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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| 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. | | | Google Sparks Search Wars
| | During the past four months, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Amazon have launched geospatial viewing tools linked to text-based search engines. They are free, fast, easy to use, rich in global data, and — as public users enthusiastically testify — they're cool! | | | Web-Mapping Hacks
| | Two new O'Reilly titles help self-reliant readers teach themselves general GIS concepts — and ingenious hacks — with lessons based on free, open-source geospatial tools. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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