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Tuesday, April 3. 2007

Podcast: The Human Element in Geospatial Technology Hits the Mainstream

Tracking GPS

As we've been involved with or heard of GIS implementations around the world there's a recurring rejoinder: "It's not the technology preventing its implementation, but the people" which is short for politics, power and related issues. Now that geospatial technology is maturing and moving to the mainstream that same theme is popping up. And this week, we had some great examples, including the world's (and the U.S. government's) reaction to Google's changes to its Katrina area imagery.



The podcast is 15 minutes long and was recorded on April 2, 2007.



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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google, Katrina, Tracking, GPS, Patents, Directions on the News Podcast, DigitalGlobe at 01:00 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) | Bookmark and Share

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I just listened to your PodCast and wanted to correct you on a statement that you made about the date of photography that Google publishes in Google mapearth. You said that there is a copyright with a year indicating when the photography was flown. I have noticed for sometime that the year that Google includes in the Copyright is not the year that the photography was taken, it's the current year (you will see a 2007 copyright on all data right now).

I am often asked the same question about the date of the photography. I would like to see Google state the date of the data, both imagery and vector.

I enjoy your articles and PodCasts. Keep up the good work!

Nat Norton
Manager, Corporate GIS Services
Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc.
#1 Nat Norton (Link) on 2007-04-03 08:39 (Reply)

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