Tuesday, February 24. 2009

Tracking LBS Apps on iPhone, Android

Bentley Offers Helping Hand to "Be Employable" for those Out of Work

Bentley Systems launched a campaign yesterday called "Be Employable" to support out of work infrastructure professionals with free online training and access to online software. The initiative, part of Bentley's "Be Careers Network," includes professional organizations and firms looking to support recruitment of trained AEC and geospatial technologists. I'll give Bentley credit; it's a great idea and this is the first I've seen of a program to help geospatial professionals who may be looking for work. In a time where there is a dearth of trained geospatial professionals this is an opportunity to develop skills that are highly employable.

NASA C02 Satellite Fails to Reach Orbit

A separation issue just after launch meant that the mission has, per NASA, ended. The rocket fell back to earth. Too bad.

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) plan aimed to capture accurate atmospheric carbon levels around the globe to unprecedented levels of accuracy.

- Register
- CNN

Podcast: Mapping Broadband

The economic recession is on everyone’s mind, but last week’s passage of the stimulus bill, aka the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, was a bit vague on spending for specific projects involving geospatial technology... except one: Mapping Broadband. What exactly will that entail and what possible impact will it have on the expansion of communications in rural areas, LBS and wider dissemination of geospatial information?

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OSLO: Open Location Sharing

Open Sharing of Location-based Objects (OSLO) is an initiative to share location information across social and other networks. It was announced late last year. Heard of it? Me either. It does have 10 members: Aka-Aki, Belysio, Buddycloud, Locle, Moximity, Nulaz, Rummble, Skout, Tooio and WAYN. Heard of any of them? I've heard of two or three. The group spoke to Google, Yahoo and Vodafone last week at the Mobile World Congress, with positive response, but no action -- yet.

It sounds like OSLO in addition to trying to manage privacy is looking for a standard for location data sharing. I think OGC has done a lot of that legwork with it Open Location Services.

One current challenge? OSLO has no website, just a Google Group.

- Venture Beat

ESRI Receives National Governors Award for Public/Private Partnership

The National Governors Assocation's Public-Private Partnership Awards were established last year to recognize "companies for noteworthy partnerships with governors and states, and to honor companies that have partnered with a governor's office to implement a program or project that positively affects a state's citizens."

Maryland Governor O'Malley, who gave the keynote at last week's ESRI Federal User Conference and spoke at the ESRI Executive Summit last summer, nomiated ESRI for its work on BayStat, a multi-agency performance effort to measure progress on improving the health of the Chesapeake Bay.

Microsoft received an award, too, for its work promoting technology in education in Washington state.

- Government Technology