Monday, October 19. 2009

Lake County Surveyor Announces GIS Website

Lake County in Indiana has launched its GIS website after 8 years of collecting the data. The URL, www.lakecountysurveyor.org, highlights it's under the auspices of the County Surveyor. He actually announced it.

Of note: "Topographical maps are available through the system, though the office charges private surveying companies for the data to recoup some of the cost."

-Post Tribune

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Wednesday, August 12. 2009

The Story of an ArcPAD Extension (developed in 3 months)

This from Marc Cheeves coverage of the ESRI UC and Survey and Engineering Summit in The American Surveyor:

For years, ESRI has pleaded with software manufacturers to create a direct link from ArcPad to the ESRI geodatabase, ArcServer. To that end, he mentioned the new JAVAD GNSS ArcPad extension for handhelds. ArcPad is one of ESRI's field tools, and is used to gather GIS locations.

At the recent ESRI Developers Conference in Palm Springs, Javad Ashjaee met with Dangermond and Jones. On a napkin, they developed the workflow, and in three months, Javad's software engineers--along with an ESRI software engineer sent to Moscow from Egypt--kicked out the new extension. ESRI is very excited about this development because it means, for the first time, office people can benefit, real-time, from what is going on in the field.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Surveying, ESRI UC 09 at 06:56 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0) |

Wednesday, July 29. 2009

Trimble Cites Positive News in Second Quarter Report

Trimble's CEO Steven Berglund reported guarded optimism about his company's "return to year-over-year revenue growth by late 2009 or early 2010." Such remarks have become rare these days and it sent Trimble's stock up over 14% by mid-day today. Berglund also stated that the Field Solutions business (generally the GIS sector for Trimble) experienced an 11% decline year-over-year but that decline should be tempered by the fact that in 2008 this segment demonstrated a whopping 63% growth in sales.

So, even though Berglund still believes there is significant risk in the market, the numbers represent "more stability in the second quarter than the prior two quarters."

We'll take any good news we can get at this point.

Posted by Joe Francica in GPS, Surveying, Geospatial Business at 10:54 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Wednesday, July 22. 2009

GIS and Surveying Working Together

Just last night I read an editorial that suggested that GIS had stepped into the role that surveyors cover in recent years. "GIS professionals started edging into areas that had previously been relegated to professional surveyors." (POB Editorial, July 2009)

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Surveying at 06:04 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0) |

Wednesday, May 27. 2009

Update 2: ACSM 2011 to be held in Conjunction with ESRI Survey and GIS Event/UC

Update: [This update is updated 5/28/09 to include Mr. Sumner's complete statement. Only a part of it was included originally. My apologies for any further confusion.] Curt Sumner, executive director of ACSM confirms:

Sorry for the confusion. ACSM and ESRI have agreed in principle that it is a good idea for ACSM to hold its 2011 (and possibly beyond) conference in conjunction with the ESRI conference.

We have not made any official announcements because we are still working through the logistics and financial issues to make sure that each organization benefits from such a collaboration, before finalizing an agreement.

The meeting planners at ESRI are currently working through the information we have provided in order to get a handle on how our conference works.

I am hopeful that everything will be worked soon so that we can make an official announcement. I am just wary of announcing anything related to proposed activities of any kind until I know that it is actually going to happen.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in ESRI, Surveying at 09:26 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, May 12. 2009

Podcast: The Texas Map Disclaimer Bill

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." Our editors think through the implications of such a bill and ask surveyors to add their input.


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