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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

If indeed the Esri UC is the most important GIS event in the industry, what does that mean for other events? Other communities that do not participate? Directions Magazine editors contemplate the implications and what options are available to bring together the whole community.

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

How do you benefit from giving technology away? This week we look at a trend - all sorts of things (data, technology and Web services) are being offered for free across the technology landscape. It’s happening in geospatial too. So, here’s today’s question: How will companies’ free offerings compete with one another?


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Friday, September 12, 2008

We in the geospatial world have over the past decade or so wrapped our brains around spatial extensions for databases. I’m the first to admit, it took me quite a bit of time to get used to the idea that geometry was just another field like data and number. Now we are sort of blase about yet another database adding a geospatial type. That’s good because I need to blow your mind just a little.

Next week Netezza a data warehouse appliance company will announce its spatial extension to its database. “It has a database?”you ask. “I’ve never heard of it.” You and me both! But I spoke to Jonathan Shepherd, who heads the geospatial initiative at Netezza, who gave me the lowdown. Peter Batty was also on the call. He’s been hinting at this for a while.

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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

We take a look at some of the latest earning reports from geospatial companies and try to tease out what’s going on. Among the companies discussed: Trimble, Garmin, NAVTEQ, Pitney Bowes and Bentley, which as a private company, issued an annual report.

The podcast is 13 minutes long (5 MB) and was recorded on May 7, 2007.

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