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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by Adena Schutzberg on 08/24 at 05:26 AM |
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This week our editors turn their attention to branding in the geospatial world, in particular how companies position their #1 and #2 and perhaps #3 offerings in several categories of geospatial offerings. How are the #2s doing from a branding perspective? In short, there is room for improvement. Editor in Chief Joe Francica and Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg examine the branding challenges in categories like GIS software, worldwide data, LBS gaming, weather and generic locators.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 05/11 at 06:00 AM |
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by Joe Francica on 05/07 at 11:29 AM |
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A shiny new user driven effort, OpenAddresses.org, aims to build a worldwide database of addresses. Will it work? Will citizens of the world participate? What will it be used for? And will it encourage address development in areas without existing addresses?
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by Adena Schutzberg on 04/20 at 01:00 AM |
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As the world turns its attention to Haiti and how to best help the country in this challenging time, we look at a split in the geospatial community around user generated content of the impacted region. Vector map data from OpenStreetMap and Google Map Maker are available for use in supporting rescue and recovery efforts as well as apps for those looking on from a distance. But there are two from which to choose. Does this make for the best possible response?
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by Adena Schutzberg on 01/19 at 01:00 AM |
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