Podcast: Can Geolocation Change the World for Good?

An article this past week titled, “11 ways geolocation is changing the world” prompted our editors to dig deeper into if in fact the application of location technology could impact the world, one person at at time, for good. While optimistic Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg found some bumps along the path, one which stretches far ahead of us.

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Esri offers #EsriUC Videos, Proceedings to All

They are accessible here (no registration of any kind required). Categories in the database seem to include “paper” and blank. The “blank” ones seem to be just abstracts. I could not figure out how to find the videos via the search tool.

- via twitter

Update: #ESRIUC Traditional Media Coverage

19.20.21: New York vs. Abu Dhabi
- LA Times

—- original post 7/19/10——

ESRI Releases Apple Map App, Reveals “19.20.21 Project” as Annual Conference Begins
- Xconomy

Mapmaker Follows his Own Path
- Financial Times (free registration required)

Kansas Adjutant General’s Office Gets GIS Award
- WIBW

Bigfork cavers give talk before huge crowd
- Daily Interlake

ESRI Reshapes its Proprietary Mapping System Into an Open Crowdsourcing Platform, Raising a Challenge for Google
- Xconomy

Since 1969, when Dangermond founded the business initially known as Environmental Systems Research Institute, the technology has evolved from proprietary systems that customers purchased and loaded onto their own computers into technology that’s also now available in free and open-source forms, like so much else on the Internet

[I’m not sure what open source story the author heard at ESRI UC.]

Urban insight starts with useable data (interview with Richard Saul Wurman)
- SignOn San Diego

#EsriUC Lightening Talks Online

You can watch them here, including one from our own Joe Francica on Augmented Reality.

Esri Staff Answer Most Popular Questions at Closing #EsriUC Session

I was surprised at which questions were voted up, but was not surprised by any of the answers. There’s no plans for GIS for the Mac but rather support for iOS, for example.

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