Monday, November 2. 2009

NEURISA Tackles "Making Integrated Information More Accessible"

New England URISA is hosting a one-day event November 16, 2009 titled "Trends in Making Integrated Information More Accessible" at the
Sturbridge Host Hotel, Sturbridge, MA. The agenda includes three session exploring Citystat, Document and Permit Management and Web Mapping. The event is very affordable (registration) and includes presenters from large and small municipalities and discussions of proprietary and open source solutions. I'll be doing the keynote.

Friday, October 23. 2009

Podcast: Press Conference of Vice Admiral Robert Murrett at the #GEOINT Symposium 2009

This podcast is a recording of a press conference by Vice Admiral Robert Murrett, Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) at the GEOINT Symposium 2009 on October 21, 2009 in San Antonio. Murrett discusses the new NGA charter, the situation with aiding and supporting both domestic and military missions and other issues related to the agency's work.

Subscribe to Podcast RSS

Listen Now (to download, right click on the link at left and choose "save target as")

Missed any podcasts? Want to subscribe via iTunes, Yahoo, etc? Here's the index.

First South African Pub/Private GIS Conference?

I have to take ITWeb at its word when it claims that its first Spatially-enabled Information Services Conference is "the first of its kind to bring together both the private and public sector to discuss the challenges of and opportunities for incorporating geospatial data into systems and services." It's Feb 2010 in Bryanston.

- ITWeb

Thursday, October 22. 2009

#GEOINT Coverage Roundup II (Non-Directions Media)

Note: This post does not include coverage by Directions Media in All Points Blog or Directions Magazine.

U.S. spy chief calls for more coordination says MySanAntonio.com: "Speaking in San Antonio at a national intelligence symposium, retired Navy Adm. Dennis C. Blair, director of national intelligence since January, said a more effective national security strategy includes all 16 members of the intelligence community on the same page."

DoD Buzz notes that "Open Source Intel Use Soars." That refers to open source intel, not software. "And the use of open source information is soaring, according to a panel here in San Antonio at the annual Geoint conference. Brian Magana, geospatial analysis branch chief at the Defense Intelligence Agency, said that his consumption of open source data for one area of analysis he was following rocketed upwards 600 percent."

FOSS4G Coverage II

Mateusz Loskot offers a video of Paul Ramsey's keynote offers a video of Paul Ramsey's keynote.

Mark From the Inside Looking In raves: the video "has been all the talk on Twitter. If you haven't seen it yet, you should do so."

Iki Maska rounds up some presentations on his blog: "A somewhat ordinary presentation by Ingres." "Raul Vera from Google on a subtle but profound shift in spatial paradigm, predicting that in mid 2011 the majority of location searches will be from mobile devices and this requires a different point of thought ("I'm lost!" is actually a very rare use case)."

The Map Guy(de) talks about the new FDO Toolbox.

Kate Lundy, Senator represented the Australian Capital Territory, offers the full text of her presentation at the conference.

Wednesday, October 21. 2009

Liquid Galaxy: An Immersive, Multi-screen Version of Google Earth

If you had six, 42" flat screen monitors what would you do? If you are unsure, you may want to configure something like Liquid Galaxy, Google's immersive environment that takes Google Earth from impressive website application to simulation environment. Stepping in side a small booth at the GEOINT Symposium, the user is surrounded by flat screens, and a small podium mounted with the SpaceNavigator joystick from 3DConnexion. Yes, it's very cool, and everyone should have one for their game room (see below and click for larger image).