Friday, March 19. 2010

Illinois Grant Tracker Uses ESRI for Data Management and Google Maps for Visualization

It's Sunshine Week and the State of Illinois has rolled out it Grant Tracker, an app that shows where grant money goes.

The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) app Grant Tracker "uses innovative mapping technology developed by ESRI to provide the Grant Locator, a mapping representation of the grants awarded, and Google Maps to provide a visual of individual project locations. Search results can be sorted by column headings within Grant Tracker and can be downloaded to a personal computer for further review. All data is updated daily."

- press release

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Tuesday, March 16. 2010

Podcast: GIS Interpreters: Helping GIS Software Developers and Domain Experts Speak the Same Language

How much does a domain expert, such as a forester, need to know about GIS software and programming to communicate with a software develop who will build a useable app? How do those experts who use GIS in planning, medical care, and agriculture learn to communicate with programmers? And, how do programmers, especially those new to GIS, learn about its quirks? Our editors explore go-betweens who help interpret and how changes in technology may be making communications easier.

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

Thursday, March 11. 2010

Where is ESRI's Dangermond on Forbes Billionaire List this Year?

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- Forbes
- Map

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in ESRI at 08:42 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0) |

Friday, February 26. 2010

Update: ESRI Australia Acquires Map Data Sciences

Map Data Science posted a press release dated 2/26/10.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in ESRI at 08:10 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Wednesday, February 24. 2010

DMTV #7: Interview with ESRI's Jack Dangermond and a Review of the ESRI FedUC 2010

In this interview with ESRI President Jack Dangermond, Directions Magazine Editor in Chief Joe Francica discusses the health of the GIS technology sector, jobs and educating the next generation of geospatial professionals. Dangermond talks about the growth that ESRI is experiencing and how the state of the economy has impacted sales of GIS to the local, state and federal markets. This episode of DMTV also includes a brief review of the 2010 ESRI Federal User Conference that was held in Washington DC, February 17-19. [below is the YouTube and edited version of the interview...the entire 20 minute interview is also available for downloading here in Windows Media format.]

Posted by Joe Francica in ESRI, Education, Geospatial Business, DMTV, ESRI Fed UC 10 at 05:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Friday, February 19. 2010

ESRI #Feduc Coverage RoundUp

In addition to our own Joe Francica's coverage of this week's event, you may also want to read/watch:

Improved GIS tool gives data a fresh look

Wyatt Kash of GCN summarizes the event and announcements. Sample:

Introducing the new ArcGIS platform — with the choreographed staging and muted star power reminiscent of a more famous California-based technology company — was ESRI founder, patriarch and President Jack Dangermond.

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