Adena Schutzberg, executive editor, interviewed Crispin Flower, application developer and Associate Director of exeGesIS SDM Ltd, about his company’s new product that links ArcMap and Microsoft SQL Server, ArcSquirrel. This conversation is one in a continuing series of conversations with geospatial insiders and outsiders.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 01/29 at 01:00 AM |
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Profit was up 60% in the fourth quarter, though sales were down 5%. Why the big profit? Austerity measures like cost cutting and layoffs (2200 layoffs about 2% of the workforce in 2009).
NAVTEQ sales rose 10 percent to €225 million from €205 million a year earlier mostly from in-car navigation devices.
- New York Times
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/28 at 07:38 AM |
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The club recently was selected as one of eight groups nationwide to win the President’s Environmental Youth Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The club’s leadership and advisor will travel to Washington, D.C., to accept the award later this year. Have these folks presented their work at a GIS conference?
- Big Fork Eagle
—- original post 4/4/09——
Bigfork High School in Montana has a caving club. But in addition to exploring caves, the students clean graffiti and monitor newly found caves in Glacier National Park. That’s led to a GIS lab to map their finds.
Their monitoring work recently earned recognition from Best Buy, which awarded the club a $10,000 grant. The club will use the money to create a GIS lab, complete with seven high-powered laptop computers and a desktop server, to digitize their discoveries.
- Daily Inter Lake
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by Adena Schutzberg on 01/28 at 06:49 AM |
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Cartifact, the company behind MapQuests and Yahoo’s recent style updates (APB posts 1, 2), got a new CEO. J. Fred Baca was President of Colliers International in Houston, Texas (2001 - 2009), a brokerage house. But he was in geo before that: “In the 1990s Mr. Baca, as Baca Landata, a co venture with Houston based Stewart Title Company, purchased both the Wilson Maps and Zingerey Map Company, making Baca the sole provider of Houston parcel and ownership mapping services. Baca Landata developed the first Internet “smart” map of The Greater Houston Area and the first Internet distributed GIS mapping product for the Harris County Appraisal District.”
- press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/28 at 06:00 AM |
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Last Friday was the 45 day deadline for US agencies to post at least three high value datasets to Data.gov. Most did, though some disappeared once they were posted.
- OMB Watch
The UK launched its data.gov.uk - in fact Sir Tim Berners Lee launched it. Oh, and it has way more datasets (3000) than the older US portal.
- Daily Mail
The Guardian lunched its own portal - to datasets from many countries.
- Guardian blog post
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/28 at 06:00 AM |
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