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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GeoTech Center Funding Ends in Aug 2012
Yesterday David DiBiase, in his role as as a "project advisor" with the GeoTech Center, shared the news on Facebook that National Science Foundation declined to provide the center with a second round of funding. The four years of funding ran 2008-2012 under award 0801893. (My colleague... Continue reading
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Westport, CT’s new TaxMap App and other Government GIS News
Westport, CT has a new Esri-based map viewer. The city is offering several 90 and 150 minute classes on using it. Good thing - since I oculd not get the help to work. The old intro page says you must use IE not AOL or another browser. Safari worked fine.
- CT
The Franklin County, AL... Continue reading
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ERMA (at one time demo for Geoportal.gov) Basis for Arctic Response GIS
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced today they are partnering to enhance the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA®) for the Arctic region by summer 2012. ERMA® is the same... Continue reading
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Linux Yuma and other Mobile GPS Data Capture News
...the latest news appears to be the Trimble Yuma, a rugged tablet from SDG Systems that now runs Ubuntu Linux.
Targeting military and industrial applications requiring data collection, inspection, and reporting from the field, the Linux-powered Yuma can be used with geospatial... Continue reading
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Sundosoft Brings GIS to Korea and other International GIS News
The Korea Times has a feature on Yoon Jay-joon (Jay Yoon), CEO of Sundosoft, a large GIS player in the country. One of the graphics is of a box of ArcGIS 9. I guess 10 is not yet out there.
- Korea Times
Panasonic's new GPS enabled cameras may not work quite right in China. How and... Continue reading
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Girl Scout Teaches Geography and other Education GIS News
Danielle Feoranzo, a student at Westwood Regional High School in the Township of Washington, recently earned her Girl Scout Gold Award by painting a map of the United States on the playground at the Jessie F. George Elementary School.
I've read lots of stories about maps being... Continue reading
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Rhiza renames, relaunches core product: Rhiza Upshot
I learned about Rhiza Labs during the bird flu pandemic of 2009 (APB coverage). The company provided the backend mapping for a crowdsourced effort to gather infection and other data as the disease moved across the world and in the United States.
Last week I recieved an e-mail from the... Continue reading
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LightSquared Update - LS Requests FCC Write Specs for GPS - 2/7/12
With Tuesday's filing, LightSquared asked the FCC to enact new rules to require special design standards for GPS devices. In the filing, the company argued that GPS receivers could be fixed using filters or other technical modifications.
LightSquared acknowledges such a change may... Continue reading
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New Lyme Disease Map and other Health GIS News
A new map pinpoints well-defined areas of the Eastern United States where humans have the highest risk of contracting Lyme disease, one of the most rapidly emerging infectious diseases in North America, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. researchers... Continue reading
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DHS to Re-solicit Remote Sensing for Homeland Security Procurement and other Federal Gov GIS News
In reference to the subject solicitation for Remote Sensing services, the Office of Procurement Operations, Enterprise Acquisitions Division (OPO/EAD) intends to cancel the procurement and re-solicit...
It's not 100% clear why, but maybe the documents were just confusion. The... Continue reading
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New Geo APIs - 2/7/12
DC Master Address Registry API: The service provides a master address registry as well as mapping and geographic information service (GIS) data for the city of Washington, D.C. The registry supports finding or verifying an address throughout the city. Mapping functions locate features... Continue reading
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Trimble and other Feb 2012 Revenue Announcements
Trimble
For the fourth quarter of 2011, Trimble had revenue of $435.2 million, up approximately 35 percent as compared to the fourth quarter of 2010.
Fiscal 2011 revenue was $1.64 billion, up approximately 27 percent as compared to fiscal 2010.
- press... Continue reading
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MomentFeed, Foursquare and others in the LBS News
MomentFeed. Inc., the first location-based marketing platform for the enterprise and a leader in the SoLoMo space, today announced a partnership with foursquare to claim venues on behalf of its clients, providing an interface to efficiently manage hundreds or thousands of... Continue reading
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Google Loses French Lawsuit for Its Free Maps and other Google Geo News
Google is guilty of abusing its dominant position with Google Maps per a court in France. It was ordered to pay €500,000 in damages and interest to the plaintiff and a €15,000 euro fine against Bottin Cartographes. The company, until it was put out of business, offered online... Continue reading
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Paper Maps are Hard to Use and other Education GIS News
At Holt Elementary in Durham, NC, the local GIS users are teaching about GIS via Google Earth. I'm not sure how I feel about this exercise:
To illustrate the difference that GIS technology makes, [GIS analyst from the GIS division of the city’s Technology Solutions Department,... Continue reading
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EnhancedView Could Take $50 Million Hit - Aviation Week
Aviation Week is reporting that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) may be forced to renegotiate the EnhanceView contract with GeoEye and DigitalGlobe due to an expected $50 Million cut to the agency's 2012 fiscal year budget with the prospect of more cuts in fiscal 2013.... Continue reading
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IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Sponsors “Data Fusion Contest”
From Fabio Pacifici, chair of the Data Fusion Technical Committee of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), comes word that the organization is hosting the 2012 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest.
Mr. Pacifici writes:
This year the Contest is designed to investigate the... Continue reading
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Quote of the Week - 2/2/12
“Why does Interstate 95 go in a straight line from Florida to Canton [MA], and then hooks around, and resumes a straight line from Peabody [MA] to Canada. And that’s Interstate 95.”
The answer is Mayor Kevin White of Boston, who died earlier this week. Rep. Barney Frank, asked the... Continue reading
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Hawaii Broadband Speed Test and other Government GIS News
A new website will allow internet users to determine their computer or electronic device’s internet speed and help the state map its broadband coverage as the Abercrombie Administration moves forward with its Hawai’i Broadband Initiative. Participants can take the test... Continue reading
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Open Data on Malta Coming and other International GIS News
A plane will be scanning the island to build a three-dimensional map that will allow the planning authority to monitor environmental changes over the years.
The photographic map will carry information such as on air and water quality and noise levels. All data will be available... Continue reading
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