The Local Government Association (LGA) has said that local councils saved more than £200m last year by using location-based technology to manage services. Those include services like reporting vandalism, paying for parking by phone, online search tools and the like. That number could reach £372m annually by 2014-15. The headline cites just iPhones and many examples are on that platform, but I have to believe there’s some desktop OSs and Android in there, too.
- ZDnet UK
- press release
- ConsultingWhere PR (last week)
- report
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/07 at 07:39 AM |
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You can help identify the need to educate a new generation of geospatial professionals working in remote sensing by taking a brief survey. The Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence (GeoTech Center) is conducting a survey to identify the need for continued training in remote sensing education. They are looking to receive funding support from the National Science Foundation to conduct workshops.
By participating in a brief survey you can have an important impact on remote sensing education. If you are in academia, please take the survey.
If you are in government or private industry, please take this survey instead.
The questions can be answered in about five minutes.
The growing workforce need for geospatial technicians who are skilled in remote sensing is evident in the recent development of a new U.S. Department of Labor occupational code for remote sensing technicians.
The survey was developed by a coalition of professional associations, industry, government agencies, and two-year colleges with a strong commitment to help meet this need. The coalition plans to provide an educational program for GIS instructors from two-year colleges across the country, based on the remote sensing skills required by the new occupational code. All curriculum guidelines and instructional resources developed by the project will be available at no cost on the project’s website.
The coalition needs your help in order to demonstrate that, given appropriate support, two-year colleges will be interested in integrating remote sensing into their geospatial programs. The results of this survey will be a critical component of a funding proposal to the National Science Foundation.
Please submit your response as soon as possible, but no later than September 15, 2010. Thank you for your support!
by Joe Francica on 09/07 at 06:25 AM |
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Mark Laudon is behind two of the apps submitted to the Apps for Climate Action contest hosted by British Columbia, Canada. The apps are Save the Rain, which calculates how much rain your roof could save if you stored water in a rain barrel and The Effects of Rising Sea Levels on Vancouver Due to Global Warming which shows which areas would be flooded if sea level rose 6 meters. Laudon works for the City of Surrey and runs his own consulting firm. He addresses why and how he built the apps, the importance of open data, the potential impact of the contest and other topics in a Q and A in the local paper.
He’ll learn if he won on Sept 16.
- Georgia Straight
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/07 at 06:00 AM |
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TomTom has told Pocket-lint that it is, “Definitely looking at” the massive boom in location based social networking services like Facebook Places, Foursquare and Twitter.
Yep, that is all.
- Pocket-Lint
GigaOM has announced the Mobilize 2010 LaunchPad Winners which it describes as “the 10 most promising mobiles startups, chosen from a huge body of applicants. They’ll be honored at Mobilize 2010 September 30th in San Francisco. They tell of how LBS is beginning to scrape the bottom of the barrel, at least in my mind.
The geo ones:
Jiepang: Jiepang is the leading mobile location-based social networking service in China, similar to Foursquare in the US.
Micello: Micello has been dubbed “Google Maps inside a building” and is disrupting the entire location-based services market.
Spork: Spork, a location-based application that turns every street corner into a dynamic, personalized menu of dishes and drinks based on trusted recommendations and reviews.
- press release
The New York Times is helping clarify how Facebook Places works after a message being spread via the social network not only misrepresents how it works, but also give misinformation about how to turn it off. “What could possibly go wrong with yet another LBS…”
- New York Times
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/07 at 06:00 AM |
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