This month’s State of the Map US teamed with mappers, but not so many GIS professionals. A webinar on Esri’s Community Maps program drew 800 attendees just last week. Why are mappers and GIS pros choosing to give their data to one project or the other and what are the implications?
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In just the first 10 days of August, the Bing Maps team has made four big announcements from an app contest with a flashy cab care calculator, to the addition of an OpenStreetMap layer, to a new dynamic labels interface with new cartography, to an app for citizens of Seattle. How does this position Bing Maps as continues the battle with Google in the geospatial arena?
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July saw more than its share of acquisitions in the geospatial domain. Among the players involved were large companies with household names like Nokia and Facebook, and smaller ones only known in tighter circles, including NextStop and Photo Science. Our editors review the deals and offer predictions on their success.
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ESRI has introduced a program to integrate users’ authoritative imagery, street data and topography into its basemaps delivered via ArGIS.com and other means. Is this the way your jurisdiction should consider data sharing? What are the other options? Our editors have a look at the benefits and challenges of ESRI’s program and list off some of the other options available.
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