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How nice that NSGIC’s efforts to provide a single point for state GIS inventories is getting some support. DHS is looking for “access to and enhancement of the RAMONA GIS Inventory, as well as research and development of best practices guidance.”
- Fed Biz Online via @JeffHarrison
The Sunlight Foundation sponsored the contest (V2) to encourage developers to take advantage of the newly opened datasets from the federal government including data.gov. Have a look at the three finalists - all with maps - and vote for your favorite.
Finalists include:
GovPulse - a Federal Register browser, it includes maps of places mentioned by an agency.
This we know - “the EveryBlock for federal data”
Datamasher - “allows you to take two different public data sources and mash them up with an operator (+ - * /).”
Pocket Lint has an interview with the OpenStreetMap founder. And, a reminder, Coast will be among the speakers at this year’s Location Intelligence Conference. We are offering some very affordable registration options just now…
Amazon is launching private cloud services as part their Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) offering. Reason? Security. The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) will integrate with the corporate IT infrastructure through "a set of isolated Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute resources" via an encrypted Virtual Private Network (VPN). The objective is to make this a "seamless" transition between internal network security and resources available through Amazon’s private cloud services.
“In the summer period, we’ve seen quite a good development in demand. We’re becoming more optimistic.”
- TomTom Chief Executive Officer Harold Goddijn
“We don’t believe that PND is dead. We think it’s going to continue to grow a couple more years through 2011 and possibly flatten out at that point as the GPS-enabled smart-phone market increases.”
- Kevin Rauckman, chief financial officer of Garmin
TomTom already has an iPhone app, Garmin will not pursue one, but is offering its own branded nav phones.
