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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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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A flurry of iPhone, Android and Blackberry apps to submit citizen collected data about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began appearing in May. Now there are perhaps several dozen apps available. What’s the impetus for all the apps? What’s happening to all the data collected?
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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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