Podcast: A Hallway Conversation with the Team from DDTI on Everything Addressing
Adena Schutzberg 03-19-2010
Did you ever wonder about the differences between addresses determined by geocoding using liner referencing and point addresses? How are they acquired and when is one or the other the right tool for the job? Do you know what next generation 911 is and how GIS will fit into it? Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg spoke with the team from Digital Data Technologies, Inc. to tackle those questions and more.

Retail Banks Put Geographic BI to Work
Lew-Jean King 03-18-2010
Banks are broadening their view of geographic information systems from "dots on a map" to spatial modeling, and integrating the technology into mainstream information technology solutions. Lew-Jean King, an experienced banker with long ties to the GIS community, provides his insights into the expanding role of GIS in the banking industry.

Podcast: An Interview with Kass Green, Remote Sensing Rock Star
Joe Francica 03-18-2010
If anyone can provide a perspective on the "consumerization" of satellite imaging and its impact on the profession of remote sensing science, it's Kass Green, President, Kass Green and Associates. Editor in Chief Joe Francica recently sat down with this true remote sensing rock star in Scottsdale, Arizona and they discussed the impact of Google Earth on remote sensing, privacy issues, and how change detection applications of remotely sensed data might well become just another feature provided by Google.

NSGIC MidYear Wrap Up: Frustration in Annapolis
Adena Schutzberg 03-17-2010
Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg offers this round up of her experience at the National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) midyear meeting last week. While there were some bright spots, she notes an overall sense of frustration with "making solid progress toward a better state of affairs."

DMTV #9: The GeoTech Center-The Link Between Academia and the Workforce
Joe Francica 03-17-2010
The National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence, the GeoTech Center, is a National Science Foundation funded Advanced Technology Education center that was started in 2008. Directions Magazine's editor in chief, Joe Francica, asks the center's director, Dr. Phillip Davis, about the center and its involvement in developing the Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM) for the U.S. Department of Labor. The GTCM is an effort to define the core competencies of the geospatial professional to support curriculum development at colleges and universities, and to promote workforce development. The GeoTech Center, then, is a vital link in helping prepare students to become the next generation of geospatial professionals and to meet the workforce demands of a growing industry in geospatial technology.

Podcast: GIS Interpreters: Helping GIS Software Developers and Domain Experts Speak the Same Language
Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg 03-16-2010
How much does a domain expert, such as a forester need to know about GIS software and programming to communicate with a software develop who will build a useable app? How do those experts who use GIS in planning, medical care, and agriculture learn to communicate with programmers? And, how do programmers, especially those new to GIS, learn about its quirks? Our editors explore go-betweens who help interpret and how changes in technology may be making communications easier.

Masternaut Three X Integrates Real and Virtual Worlds with Augmented Reality for Field Service Management
Joe Francica 03-15-2010
Masternaut Three X launched an advanced camera phone application that enables digital images to be displayed together with associated business data. This augmented reality (AR) solution is targeted at organizations in need of vehicle tracking and mobile resource management technology for more efficient field service operations. Editor in Chief Joe Francica interviewed Masternaut's Johann Levy, the research and development manager, about the AR application.

GeoDesign: Changing Geography by Design
Matt Artz 03-11-2010
The 2010 GeoDesign Summit wrapped up in January, but the event prompted many questions about GeoDesign and its practice. ESRI's Matt Artz rounds up some of the history, current discussion and the challenges of defining GeoDesign.

Podcast: An Interview with Brady Forrest of O'Reilly Media, Chairperson of Where 2.0
Joe Francica 03-10-2010
Foursquare vs. Gowalla? How about Bing Maps vs. Google Maps? Brady Forrest of O'Reilly Media, chairperson of the Where 2.0 Conference, shares his views on some of the more popular Web-based mapping platforms and "location-aware" social networks. In this conversation with Editor in Chief Joe Francica, Forrest also reveals why the conference has become so popular, and discusses its objective of bringing together both the GIS and neogeography crowd.

Podcast: Platial Shuts Down while Microsoft Opts in to User Generated Location Data from Navizon
Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg 03-09-2010
This week we look at two news items connected at least superficially by reliance on crowdsourced geospatial data. Platial, one of the early players to offer a simple way to customize Google Maps, announced it was ceasing operations. Microsoft announced a contract with Navizon, a company that crowdsources the data collection of Wi-Fi access points. Why did small but clever Platial not make it? Why is Microsoft turning to small, less familiar Navizon and crowdsourcing over a well-known player like Skyhook?

INSPIRE Translates to Shared GIS Resources
Jon Winslow 03-08-2010
In 2007, the European Union established through bold legislation a trans-European spatial data infrastructure initiative. The goal of the INSPIRE directive was to facilitate public access to geospatial data, provide the necessary foundation for writing public policy and to support "good governance." The objective was to reduce redundancy and costs to member nations, and allow agencies with the most expertise to maintain data. This article goes beyond some of the INSPIRE mandates and looks at initiatives that will support future needs.

The Secret Geography of Bus Riders
Adena Schutzberg 03-04-2010
What does it take to add a new base layer to your mental map of your home geography? For Adena Schutzberg it took an involuntary plunge into public transportation and a few seasons riding the big yellow buses of Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, the MBTA.

DMTV #8: GIS Jobs and Salary Review
Joe Francica 03-03-2010
Jobs are on everyone's mind. Which regions are employing the most geospatial professionals? How much money are companies paying these professionals? These are key issues, especially for those graduating from school or those considering a career change in the direction of geospatial technology. Editor in Chief Joe Francica provides insights in this episode of DMTV.

Podcast: Congress' Location Privacy Hearing
Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg 03-02-2010
Last week the Congressional Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection and the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet held a joint hearing titled, "The Collection and Use of Location Information for Commercial Purposes." Our editors examine the issues raised in testimony and in comments by interested stakeholders. Among them: Is location privacy akin to medical record privacy? What are the obligations of the software developer in making privacy policies and controls clear and easy to access? What about location privacy and young people?

SpatialKey in Law Enforcement: Location Intelligence Drives Intelligence-led Policing in Ogden, Utah
Tom Link 03-01-2010
Intelligence-led policing (ILP) is on the rise in the United States and inherently leverages location-based information to perform the necessary analysis. Crime and offender statistics play a key role in this law enforcement model, which calls for extensive gathering and analysis of intelligence in a proactive effort to reduce crime. In this article, you'll see how the Ogden, Utah Police Department has integrated location intelligence into its ILP efforts reducing both crime and costs in the process.

Integrating Location into Hospital and Healthcare Facility Emergency Management - Part 4, Case Stories
Ric Skinner 03-01-2010
Ric Skinner's final article of a four part series uses four case studies to document and demonstrate concepts and applications in which GIS has proven to be of value in hospital and healthcare emergency management. Topics covered include regional healthcare preparedness, planning and response in San Diego County, California, mass casualty incident planning and response, preplanning medical resources in New York City and lessons learned from the Haiti earthquake.

Podcast: A Hallway Conversation with Geolenz CTO Brian Knoth
Adena Schutzberg 02-26-2010
If you think that geocoding and reverse geocoding are mature technologies, ones only likely to have minor tweaks in the coming months and years, then you need to learn about Geolenz, a company that's putting more context, more information, and more customization into those two processes. Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg spoke with CTO and co-founder Brian Knoth about the company's newly launched services.

Making Mashups for Security
Deborah Davis 02-25-2010
If you are managing security for a global company on three continents, everything needs to work together. In the case of Microsoft "everything" includes all the data gathering tools - video cameras, sensors, card readers - and all the software - upward of 60 proprietary packages. One way to bring them together? Mash them up!

DMTV #7: Interview with ESRI's Jack Dangermond and a Review of the ESRI FedUC 2010
Joe Francica 02-25-2010
In this video interview with ESRI President Jack Dangermond, Directions Magazine Editor in Chief Joe Francica discusses the health of the GIS technology sector, jobs and educating the next generation of geospatial professionals. Dangermond talks about the growth that ESRI is experiencing and how the state of the economy has impacted sales of GIS to the local, state and federal markets. This episode of DMTV also includes a brief review of the 2010 ESRI Federal User's Conference.

Why Geospatial Users and Developers Should Know Their GPU from their CPU
Adena Schutzberg 02-24-2010
The buzz about advances in geospatial software has overshadowed that of hardware for the last five to ten years. But Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg suggests that perhaps we should pay more attention to hardware, especially since the graphics processing unit (GPU) may be one of our best weapons to increase productivity.

Podcast: Unintended Consequences of Sharing Your Location Online
Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg 02-23-2010
Last week PleaseRobMe.com made headlines across the tech, social and popular media spaces. The site, with its quirky title, does not suggest using location information found on the Web to try to break into homes, but rather warns of the unintended consequences of sharing personal location information. Editors Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg examine the website and its goals, and explore some other unanticipated but possible consequences of "over-sharing" location information. Might you be denied a job? Will you have to pay more for insurance? Also noted: a Congressional hearing on location data and privacy tomorrow.

Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) - Why Should We Care About Them?
John Moeller 02-22-2010
The initiative to create a National Spatial Data Infrastructure in the United States has, at its core, the vision to find "new ways we can use geospatial information and technology in collaboration, rather than isolation and to see local, as well as world conditions, as an organic whole rather than as disconnected pieces," says John Moeller, senior principal engineer at Northrop Grumman. In this article, Moeller outlines the principals of an NSDI. The former director of the Federal Geographic Data Committee provides a cogent review of why this initiative must keep moving forward.

DMTV #6: Geospatial Cloud Computing 101-Geocoding & Pin Maps
Joe Francica 02-17-2010
In this episode of DMTV, Editor in Chief Joe Francica explains geospatial cloud computing with a simple example of geocoding and pin mapping. The three steps include storing, processing and visualizing geospatial information, all without the need for executable programs on your local computer. This is a workflow for processing georeferenced data that uses as many cloud-based solutions as are available today.

Why Geo Will Embrace The Cloud in 2010
Brian Timoney 02-16-2010
Is cloud computing just another fad? Another technology solution looking for a problem? Brian Timoney thinks this fad is different because of "the variety of cloud-based services coming online in 2010 that directly address the problems that resource-constrained GIS shops face on a daily basis."

Podcast: Microsoft Uses TED as a Platform to Announce Bing Maps Update
Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg 02-16-2010
Last week Microsoft used a talk at TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) to unveil some new features for its Bing Maps platform. Goodies included slicker zooming, live georeferenced video feeds, integration of Flickr photos, Worldwide Telescope....a sort of "kitchen sink" of eye candy. But of course it's only eye candy until professional and consumer focused developers tune it to solve specific problems for work and play. Our editors share what impressed them and consider how this enhanced platform might be used.

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