DBAs and Librarians - More Similar Than I Realized

This comment posted by “Jill” and featured at SSWUG (SQL Server Worldwide Users Group) is worth a read.

Google Responds with Motion to Dismiss on Street View Private Street Case

A Pittsburgh couple on a private road sued the company in April stating it had no right to drive up the road and photograph the house. Google’s paper asking for a dismissal were filed in July and posted on the Smoking Gun yesterday. Google’s argument boils down to, “there is no privacy” and “we as a society allow people to walk up to our doors all the time.”

- New York Post

Is a combined survey/GIS department in your county’s future?

It may be in Hall County, Nebraska.

Hall County Surveyor Casey Sherlock proposed to combine his existing Surveyor Department with the existing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Department (which is currently under the county’s information technology director) at a total cost of $200,648. The “deal?” Separately the two departments had a budge of $204,000 for the past fiscal year. The proposal also included a $20 raise for Sherlock.

- Grand Isle Indepedent

Pitney Bowes Ad on Location Intelligence in New York Times

In the "there’s something you don’t see everyday" department comes this ad which accompanied my daily e-mail from the New York Times. While in the geospatial arena we speak of location intelligence (we even host a conference by that name) I’m hard pressed to imagine New York Times readers as savvy as they are, know what it is. Perhaps that’s the point?

California Giving Visibility to GIS Coordination

The office of the CIO for the State of California is coordinating a newly-formed GIS Cooridination committee. Two press announcements (1, 2)have been made so far within the recent months. The CIO has released a video (see more below)that explains some of the initiatives and we will also be reporting with a more in depth interview with some of the committee members in a forthcoming article.