Like most of you, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has touched me and has left me angry and sad at the same time.
Feature – Building a Fully Functioning County GIS in Five Years
A special feature article from American Surveyor Magazine… Five years ago Cochise County, Arizona embarked on a comprehensive plan to install a practical Geographical Information System. Today 300 county employees use it regularly.
3-D digital scanning feature – Capturing History at Mount Rushmore
(Keystone, SD) Despite the snow and rain from the past week, the 3-D digital scanning project at Mount Rushmore National Memorial has captured some impressive data from the scans.
Geolocation sharing with Social Media and Privacy Concerns
An interesting read on TechCrunch in a recent article about social media, privacy, and most notably, location sharing got us thinking. What stimulated the initial discussion for the article was the recent cluster at facebook regarding their privacy or lack thereof.
GPS and GIS Technologies Speed Assessment of Historic Sites in Post-Katrina New Orleans
The people and culture of New Orleans, Louisiana have made the city unique among and distinct from other cities in the United States. Approximately one-fifth of New Orleans’ urban area is in a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
ArcGIS and arcGIS Explorer Goes Online at ArcGIS.com
We’ve known for some time now that ArcGIS.com was coming soon, well now you can check it out for yourself at http://www.arcgis.com.
Alleviating Poverty in the Developing World—Leveraging Property Rights with Geospatial Technology
An interesting feature article via The American Surveyor Magazine – According to renowned economist Hernando de Soto, the inability of persons worldwide to gain formal recognition of their real property rights is a major stumbling block to alleviating poverty. This lack of formal legal recognition of property rights is pronounced in situations where rights are […]
Feature – Data Democratization: GIS For The People, By The People
A special feature article contribution from Accela – If you have ever gone on a road trip and used a GPS navigation device or planned your route the old fashioned way-using a web mapping application, of course-you may have noticed how these technologies can display service providers along your route such as food, fuel and […]
Central Arkansas Water Leverages their GIS with Cityworks
Organization Utilizes Cityworks for Water Maintenance and Other Activities
Understanding the challenges associated with `passive’ and `active’ location services
Vodafone Group Services Limited’s Stephen Deadman on privacy challenges… The introduction of mobile location services not only paved the way for potential benefits for the users but it also resulted in a number of additional issues, out of which privacy protection is termed as the most critical one.