Wednesday, September 9. 2009

Update: New GITA Infrastructure Portal

The launch is offered in connection with a discount price to join GITA:

Become a GITA Member for $99 9/9/09 -12/31/09

That gives you "exclusive access to two of the Center's most exciting features, a year-round online community launching in October and an GIT4Infrastructure Information Feed launching in November that will be the most extensive feed for all things geospatial, infrastructure, and the stimulus package."

- press release

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GITA's Geospatial Information Center for Infrastructure at git4infrastructure.org launches on Wednesday.

Per the site it's an "online, interactive information center that will constantly evolve to give GITA constituents daily information for geospatially managing, protecting, maintaining, and operating the infrastructure." Some content will be free to all, but two aspects - an online community and a specialized feed - will be for GITA members only.

via @BrentJones_ESRI

Tuesday, April 28. 2009

Podcast: Should Geospatial Education Create Subject Matter Experts or Geospatial Thinkers?

Do we encourage the next generation of young geospatial professionals to get degrees in specific disciplines such as geology, forestry, urban planning, etc. or do we train them to be “geospatial thinker" with a degree in GIS? This was the question posed at a panel at last week's Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference. This week we review the panelists' thoughts and offer up our opinions.


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Tuesday, January 13. 2009

Podcast: COGO Encourages Congressional Oversight of Geospatial

The Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO) sent a letter to Congressional leaders last week requesting establishment of geospatial subcommittees in the House and Senate. Why make such a request and why now? Our editors look at the request, the timing and what the future may hold.

Tuesday, January 6. 2009

Podcast: Four New Year's Geotechnology Challenges

With the new year five days old and economic challenges expected for every sector we explore four big challenges and opportunities for those in geospatial technology. We explore four of them: (1) how U.S. investment in infrastructure may propel geotechnologies, (2) marketing of geotechnologies in tough times (3) the growth/contraction of location-based services, and (4) the renewed interest in "openness."

Monday, November 17. 2008

GITA Launches White Paper Series on CIP, Emergency Response

The Geospatial Information Technology Association (GITA) is launching a white paper series, the first of which is titled, "Infrastructure Interdependencies." Bob Samborski, executive director of GITA, says the series is intended to look at the variety of infrastructure elements that are interdependent. The white paper series is indicative of a renewed interest in the crumbling and exposed infrastructure in the United States and how geospatial technology can not only help to support revitalization but point to areas where it might be exposed to terrorism or natural disasters. From the white paper introduction:

"This paper, Infrastructure Interdependencies, is the first in a special White Paper Series entitled, The Geospatial Dimensions of Critical Infrastructure and Emergency Response. It is intended to provide geospatial practitioners with a summary of critical infrastructure interdependencies, reasons why understanding these relationships is vital to effective  emergency response, and the important role geospatial technology, data and knowledge can play in addressing our infrastructure-related challenges."

The entire white paper can be downloaded from the Directions Magazine website.