All Points Blog
All Points Blog (APB) is a publication of Directions Media, Glencoe, Illinois. APB is a news and opinion source on location technology. We offer news on business and consumer hardware, software and services from a variety of sources along with our comments. All Things Location, including GIS, GPS, location technology and maps are fair game.
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GEOINT with SAP HANA, Esri ArcGIS
David Cruickshank from SAP's Co-Innovation Lab (COIL) describes in his blog the architecture of how SAP users can perform geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) analysis using both SAP's HANA in-memory database with a workflow to Esri's ArcGIS. Some of the workflow is explained as... Continue reading
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Landsat Data Continuity Mission: The Long Swath by NASA Earth Observatory-GigaPan
On April 12, 2013, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) reached its final orbit, 705 kilometers (438 miles) above Earth. One week later, the satellite's natural-color imager scanned a swath of land 185-kilometers wide and 9,000 kilometers long (120 by 6,000 miles)--an unusual,... Continue reading
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GIS/GPS Camp in Colorado and other Education GIS News
Colorado State University Extension is offering a four day summer camp called GEAR-Tech-21, which will introduce youth to robotics and GPS/GIS technologies. Youth 10 to 14 years of age may attend the day camps at five sites in northeast Colorado: Sterling, Akron, Brush, Holyoke and... Continue reading
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Esri Offers Interactive Map for Directory of Major Malls
Esri and the Directory of Major Malls have partnered to create the DMM Future Retail story map that media can embed or share as part of ongoing retail and local business coverage. Built on exclusive data from the DMM, this map shows 25 lifestyle/specialty and urban mixed-used projects... Continue reading
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Research: US Minorities Live in Heat, Whites in Cooler Areas
UC Berkeley researchers tapped satellite imagery to locate warmer communities. They then used U.S. Census figures to determined who lived in those areas.
The conclusion, published this week in the journal, Environmental Health Perspectives:
Heat-prone neighborhoods were... Continue reading
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Average People Can Do GIS and other Government GIS News
There's a new beta GIS for Bowling Green Kentucky. It's called GIS Application. What can you do with it?
The average person can use this service for many things. It can tell who owns a property, where they can vote, what police or fire district they are in and the acreage of the... Continue reading
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Google Announces Three New Geo APIs for Android: Fuse Location Provider, Geofencing, Active Recognition
The announcements come from Google I/O, an event in San Francisco this week. The APIs are additions to Google's location services for Android.
Fuse Location Provider enhances device location determination. It speeds up the process and makes the location accuracy higher. There's also a... Continue reading
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Look Ma, No Clouds!
What's the MapBox team been up to? Well, yesterday....
Not only did we just launch our new Cloudless Atlas imagery for the entire world (down through zoom level 8), we also launched new aerial imagery for the entire US and EU down to zoom level 19. Everything is traceable in... Continue reading
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American Geographical Society’s Writers Circle Pitches Geographic Education
An opinion piece by Jerome E. Dobson, Stephanie L. Kozak and Joseph S. Wood appeared in The Trenton News on May 4. It's based in part of the NSF funding survey the American Geographical Society published earlier this year (APB coverage) that suggests American want more, not less... Continue reading
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Should Your Conference do This?
Here's what going on next Wednesday at FOSS4GNA in Minneapolis:
FOSS4G-NA Student/Mentor Lunch
This is a chance for seasoned FOSS4G professionals to get together with a student just starting out in the open source world. The mentor and student will get connected for lunch on... Continue reading
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Crowdsourcing Environmental Issues in California and other Government GIS News
An innovative website allows people in the Coachella Valley and the Imperial Valley to report environmental hazards, channel their complaints to government agencies and track actions taken in response using online maps that flag each report with a colored dot.
The website, called... Continue reading
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Benghazi: Where is it?
Of the 41 percent of Republicans who consider Benghazi to be the worst political scandal in American history, 39 percent are unaware that Benghazi is located in Libya. 10 percent said it's in Egypt, 9 percent in Iran, 6 percent in Cuba, 5 percent in Syria, 4 percent in Iraq, and 1... Continue reading
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NGA: DigitalGlobe Imagery Contract will not be Impacted by Sequestration
Satellite imagery provider DigitalGlobe has received word from its principal U.S. government customer [National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, NGA] that the company’s centerpiece imagery-delivery contract will not suffer from the mandatory budget cuts known as sequestration that are... Continue reading
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White House Initiative Takes a Hard Look at GPS as if it’s Critical Infrastructure
While GPS itself is not considered critical infrastructure, a report into the risks its loss might pose was begun in 2010. That reports is not complete, but an update is coming.
The new, more expansive analysis of infrastructure protection will begin hardening 16 essential sectors... Continue reading
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White House Initiative Takes a Hard Look at GPS as if it’s Critical Infrastructure
While GPS itself is not considered critical infrastructure, a report into the risks its loss might pose was begun in 2010. That reports is not complete, but an update is coming.
The new, more expansive analysis of infrastructure protection will begin hardening 16 essential sectors... Continue reading
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UK Police Give Out GPS Trackers to Alzheimer Patients and other Health GIS News
Last week, Sussex police in southeast England announced a plan to buy GPS devices for a few people with dementia who are at high risk of getting lost. The police couldn't say how many devices would be bought but have invested 600 pounds, or $935, into the program. Each tracking device... Continue reading
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Canadian Public Safety Claims First Life Saved by Drone
A man's car had flipped leaving him well offroad in cold Saskatchewan on Thursday night. He called Canadia 911, but traditional manned aircraft could not locate him. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police launched a Draganflyer X4-ES helicopter drone near the last known coordinates from his... Continue reading
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Esri Maps TV Moms for Mother’s Day
The interactive storymap of television moms is arranged by decade. Missing? Mrs. Robinson from Lost in Space!
- via Journal Sentinel
... Continue reading
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Foursquare’s New Feature Shares “Streaks” to Encourage More Check-ins
An old feature of Foursquare that appeals to the datanerd in many tech users pops up information about location based behavior at check-in. So, after a few days of checking in at work you might learn it's the longest streak you've had of a daily check-in. This week, Foursquare upped the... Continue reading
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Google Glass Navigation Review
Glass Navigation is pretty darn great. It prevents fumbling with devices and, unlike phones and some dedicated navigation devices, doesn’t require you take your eyes completely off the road in order to properly navigate. There are some obvious bugs to fix, but with a beta product... Continue reading
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