The Washington Bureau of the Press Enterprise was at the event to interview Dangermond and cover Esri's move the cloud. I found this quote from U.S. Interior Deputy Secretary David Hayes' presentation noteworthy.
We now have the power to make information digestible for the people who lead your agency. I get mesmerized by Jack Dangermond and his people, and what they can do.
- Press Enterprise
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/25 at 10:13 AM |
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Macon County, NC had a hearing on Feb 14 to determine if it should keep its recent hazard maps as part of its county ordinances. The maps were complex to make and issue of accuracy and scalability have been raised. This is one technical article for the local paper; I hope residents read it before attending the meeting!
- Macon News
Public Data Sets on AWS provides a centralized repository of public data sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-based applications. AWS is hosting the public data sets at no charge for the community, and like all AWS services, users pay only for the compute and storage they use for their own applications.
There is some Census data already there but geo could represent far more!
- details via @JWvanEck
West Milford, NJ is in the middle of a lawsuit filed by its former GIS manager. The fellow is alleged to have updated wetlands designations on local maps to benefit some homeowners. He was suspended in 2009 and has file suit for wrongful termination. He changed the wetlands designation from "wetland" to "suspected wetland." The local paper says he used ArcExplorer. An expert witness was hired to help support the city's case; he does not have a GISP, but is a licensed engineer. This is one of those times I'd like to see a GISP.
- NorthJersey.com
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/20 at 04:38 AM |
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The Berrien County, Michigan, Geographic Information System (GIS) is holding a seminar to introduce its new GIS provded by Schnieder Corporation. The session is free (I think), but using the GIS is not.
The cost of using the GIS website is $15 per day or $50 per month plus a processing fee compared to the previous website price of $10 per hour plus a processing fee.
- Niles Star
There are allegations the tourism board in Joplin, MO is handing out maps to encourage visitors to the tornado ravaged area. Officials say the map was created to respond to direct requests, rather than to promote such visits.
- Joplin Globe
Moscow has spent 20 billion roubles on its own map, hoping it will be used to crowdsource data on streetlight outages and the like. It should be online next month at atlas.mos.ru. The city feels maps from Google and Yandex can't do that job. I think Esri is doing the mapping.
Sergei Scherbina, Deputy Director at ESRI CIS- Moscow map service developer says the Moscow informational site will be updated frequently with more information and services for users.
Open data proponents are wary of the new map and how embeddable it may be.
- RT
The City Council of Bainbridge, GA has an agreement with the University of Georgia's Carl Vinson Institute of Government to develop a GIS (Geographic Information System) for the City. The $45,000 will put 7,300 parcels online in about four months.
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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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ArcWatch has a nice description of what is to come in AGOL subscriptions (a write-up of what I heard at Esri for the most part) and provides these packaging and release details (but no pricing):
The new functionality offered as part of the subscription will be accessible through ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop, the ArcGIS map viewer, and ArcGIS Explorer Online. Organizations will be able to purchase monthly or annual subscriptions based on the number of users, storage capacity, and page views.
ArcGIS Online subscriptions will be in beta in fall 2011. To learn more, register for a free webinar to be held on December 6, 2011.
(I don't subscribe to ArcWatch, an e-mail newsletter; I'd love to see an RSS feed or Twitter account for it.)
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/26 at 03:32 AM |
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