LizardTech is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the MrSID imagery format:
We'll be hosting events throughout the year to celebrate MrSID's 20th anniversary. In the meantime, we’re holding a contest, inviting people like you – in fact, you – to say a word or two about how MrSID has come to their rescue. Send us your recollection or tribute at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by July 10th, 2012. We’ll pick three contributors at random. Grand prize winner will receive an iPad and the two runner-ups will each receive a $50 gift card to amazon.com. We will announce the winners the winners via Twitter at Esri International User Conference in San Diego on July 24th.
- webpage via @gletham
Autodesk is running the Infrastructure Excellence competition with prizes including HP hardware, trips to Autodesk University and cash. Infrastructure projects that use specific Autodesk software are eligible. Last day to submit May 31.
- Infrastructure Excellence website via @engis
Four University of Wisconsin-Whitewater students who mapped all of the buildings, athletic fields and parking lots on their school's campus have tied with three other teams for third place in a Google Map Maker Competition.
University of Waterloo in Canada won the big prize. The folks, one of whom uses a wheel chair and mapped barriers to travel in the mode, got notebooks, stickers, etc. No word on if they are geo students or in some other area of study.
- Chicago Tribune
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/15 at 03:00 AM |
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Tuesday’s press release from Autodesk regarding its new relationship with Pitney Bowes Software (PBS, the new name as of January 1, 2012 for Pitney Bowes Business Insights) raised many questions. Joe Francica and I spoke with James Buckley, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Customer Data & Location Intelligence, Pitney Bowes Software and Rich Humphrey, Director of Civil Infrastructure in the AEC Division at Autodesk on Tuesday night to try to tease out some answers.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 01/10 at 03:18 PM |
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With no warning from either side comes the bizarre news that Autodesk, specifically the infrastrucure/BIM part is hooking up with Pitney Bowes "to help infrastructure owners and architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) organizations make more informed decisions and drive greater efficiencies across the plan, design, build, manage lifecycle of infrastructure."
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by Adena Schutzberg on 01/10 at 05:05 AM |
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If I understand an article in California Watch correctly, the Santa Rosa City School District will soon have a gespatial tech center with corporate sponsorship. But the sponsor is not yet named.
In January, the district will finalize its first corporate partnership: a $1 million deal to name its new geospatial technology center. For students, the deal means more than just a name-brand building, Miller said.
"We would hopefully want people from the industry to come in and speak to our students about career opportunities in the field in general, but also with their organization," she said.
For the company, which Miller said she could not yet disclose, "it's the development of your next workforce." The company has asked to use the building during the summer, when school is not in session, as a training center for its employees. Local colleges also will use the facility for its observatory and weather station, she said.
Santa Rosa is about 12 miles north of San Rafael, California, home of Autodesk.
by Adena Schutzberg on 11/09 at 03:00 AM |
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He's now Gary Lang senior vice president of engineering at MarkLogic. Geospatial folks knew him for his work with Autodesk Geospatial and the early days of OSGeo.
- press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/30 at 05:28 AM |
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