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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by Adena Schutzberg on 08/10 at 01:00 AM |
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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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by Adena Schutzberg on 07/27 at 01:00 AM |
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DeKalb County Georgia has some addresses missing from its 911 database. It learned that when the local TV station investigated a long delay (34 minute) in getting to a person in distress. The ambulance went to the other side of the county. Finding the errors will not cost the county any money. Why?
[Public Safety Director William Z.] Miller said the county still isn’t sure why the addresses were deleted, but he has commissioned an outside company, GIS Data Resources (GDR) Solutions to find out. Miller also expects the company to provide a list of all existing errors in the county’s address data at no cost to taxpayers. The company could earn a fee for implementing any repairs to the errors it finds, according to Miller.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 06/22 at 07:12 AM |
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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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by Adena Schutzberg on 06/22 at 01:00 AM |
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An article about the merging of data.gov with geodata.gov prompted many in the geospatial community to note concerns about the U.S. government’s transparency, contracting, and relationships with vendors. What made for all the consternation? And what can we learn from this episode? Our editors recapped what happened, what their further research reveals and what they see as the “take aways"for the parties involved.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 06/15 at 01:00 AM |
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