eLoran: A Supplement to GPS?

eLoran, an enhanced version of the navigation system used for marine vessels. may or may not go forward. The U.S. government is still deciding. But at least one company is moving ahead with it. CrossRate Technology, a small start up in Maine is building the new technology required to use the new system and coupling it with GPS receivers. The company expects eLoran to go forward and act as a complement to GPS.

Netwon Acquires AECNews.com

For those who follow CAD, AECNews.com, which was owned by Cyon Research (Brad Holtz, et. al.) was just acquired by Randall Newton. Newton was editor of MicroStation Manager for five years and edited and contributed to other CAD publications. Newton is savvy and tells it like it is. And, with his own publication he will likely be more outspoken. He offers some interesting advice to ESRI and other companies here.

ChicagoCrime.org Fellow Moves to WashingtonPost.com

Steve Outing, writing at Poynter notes that Adrian Holovaty has taken a job
as “editor, editorial innovations” at WashingtonPost.com. He’ll start September 6. Outing describes Holovaty as “a talented young developer-journalist,” who’ll be put in “the role of ‘mad scientist’ for the award-winning news website. He was “lead developer” at the
Lawrence Journal-World (Kansas), which has one of the more progressive online papers. So what has this got to do with geospatial? Does the name sound familiar? It did to me – Holovaty is the man behind ChicagoCrime.org

Latest on MSN VE

Gary Price at Search Engine Watch noted a post to the MSN Search Blog highlighting the feedback to, and plans for VE after its first week online.

The Visibility of ArcWeb Services

Two blog posts in opposition raise an interesting question. The first is from Ed Parsons who notes that he got a call from the BBC to talk about Google Earth “There seems to be a mainstream hype developing around google maps/earth at the moment.” The second is from Fantom Planet (via Rise and Shout) asking “Why didn’t I know about ArcWeb Services before.”