Once again, we’ve pushed out another weekly edition of our mobile, location technology news via the LBSzone.com Social Location Report… enjoy this update on mobile & LBS
Welcome again to another location technology news round-up. To begin, a happy GIS Day to those of you who wish to celebrate GIS and Geo spatial technology. Recall, GIS Day is part of a Global movement to recognize the effort of GIS professionals around the Globe and more importnat, to recognize the efforts of the GIS student and profesional, and the GIS industry at large. GIS Day also falls within the celebration of Geography Awareness Week. Doing my part… To celebrate GIS Day and GAW I put together a short demo video this week that I used in a presentation Monday night made to the local community here on mobile, social location technology. The fun video shows off 50 location-aware things you can do on your GPS-enabled smartphone that take advantage of your location and Geo technology – enjoy! The video was part of a presentation delivered to an audience of about 50 attendees at the monthly social media club Victoria meet-up #smcvictoria – See the video HERE. For more about GIS Day see @GIS_day on Twitter or gisday.com. FYI, a short recap of my presentation has been posted HERE
In the LBS / Geo Tech news arena we have a few interesting updates that stand out today including: WAZE PArtners With Feeding America and Foursquare To Help Put The Issue of Hunger on the Map – In the week leading up to Thanksgiving, waze will prominently display local food bank’s pins on the map; Trimble Selects NAVTEQ Map Data for their Mapping & GIS Division – Agreement allows Trimble to provide GIS map data to key industries including utilities, state & local government, and environmental ; Esri to Host Webinar on Working with ArcPad in the Field -Learn to employ the new ArcPad tools and methods at the free live training seminar
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