Wednesday, September 16. 2009

Podcast: ADCi Helps Make Commercial Street Data Manageable for Your Application

Do the massive commercial street datasets and complex licensing agreements seem unmanageable?  Jim Reid, President of American Digital Cartography, Inc. (ADCi) discusses the ease and competitive advantage of using commercial street data provided by ADCi with Directions Media editor in chief Joe Francica.  As a major distributor of both NAVTEQ and Tele Atlas, ADCi has over 20 years experience in the mapping industry and has helped customers in every market successfully secure the correct data and license for their mapping application.  ADCi can “slice and dice” the data any way you need it so that you can begin working on your application immediately.
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Posted by Joe Francica in Podcasts, Sponsored Podcast, Data at 06:23 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, September 1. 2009

Podcast: OGC Gets into Real Estate, DigitalGlobe Readies Bird for Daily Revisits

Our editors ask: Why is the Open Geospatial Consortium hooking up with the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate and what should potential users of DigitalGlobe's Worldview-2 satellite data be pondering before its launch planned for October?

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Oracle, Standards, Remote Sensing, Sensors, Directions on the News Podcast, DigitalGlobe, Geospatial Business, Satellite Imagery, Google Earth, Cloud Computing at 06:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, August 25. 2009

Podcast: Government Data as Platform for Innovation

Three news stories this week address (1) federal govt technology change, (2) a city opening up its data and (3) a grant funded hyperlocal website being acquired. We think they are related and provide some pointers about what technologists, policians and citizens can expect regarding access to data, including geodata.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Directions on the News Podcast, Geospatial Business, Data at 01:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Monday, June 8. 2009

Intermap Brings Terrain Data to the Masses on the iPhone

Monday, Intermap will announce its AccuTerra applications for the iPhone. The company is well known in the geospatial industry as the source of NextMap Britain and NextMap USA, two nationwide detailed topographic datasets collected using synthetic aperture radar (corrected per comment - originally said LiDAR). Aerial imagery is collected at the same time. Most of that data has been sold (on spec or later) to national mapping agencies and defense interests, though some has made it into car navigation use and higher-end ruggedized GPS units for backcountry enthusiasts.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Remote Sensing, Satellite Navigation, Geospatial Business, Apple, Data at 12:06 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, June 2. 2009

Podcast: A Geospatial Look at Data.gov

Last week the federal government launched data.gov, a data portal to enhance transparency. What's in it for geospatial practitioners and how will the new offering evolve? Our editors share their thoughts on the current offering and some possible paths forward.


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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in ESRI, USGS, Standards, Directions on the News Podcast, Data at 01:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Monday, May 11. 2009

Texas Bill to Require Disclaimer on Geospatial Data

A bill before the Texas legislature will require a disclaimer to accompany geospatial data products created or hosted by a government body if the data "was not produced using information from an on-the-ground survey conducted by or under the supervision of a registered professional land surveyor." The disclaimer must be posted for data on a paper map or Internet-hosted and will be in the following form:

This product is for informational purposes and may not have been prepared for or be suitable for legal, engineering, or surveying purposes. It does not represent an on-the-ground survey and represents only the approximate relative location of property boundaries.

Analysis of the bill explains the details in less legal terminology. The bill has passed the Texas Senate and is due to be voted on by the House soon with the law to take affect on September 1^st. According to GITA, bills exist before other state legislatures that have "expanded the definition of land survey to include photogrammetry GIS and remote sensing."

Posted by Joe Francica in Surveying, Data at 06:03 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0) |