Directions Magazine’s editor in chief, Joe Francica, speaks to Kanwar Chadha, a pioneer in location-based services as one who founded SiRF Technologies, a GPS chipset manufacturer which merged with CSR plc in February 2009. Mr. Chadha, now the chief marketing officer of CSR, has appeared as a keynoter at Directions Media’s Location Intelligence conference. Francica spoke with him to get his take on how the LBS landscape has changed for social networking as well as anticipated new developments in new electronics going into smaller and smaller form factors. They also discuss the Location and Beyond Executive Summit upcoming October 6th at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, as well as a new endeavor that Directions will be supporting called PointThinkTank, a place for discussing new ideas and concepts in the LBS ecosystem.
In this interview, Editor in chief Joe Francica speaks with Dr. Richard Lathrop, Director for the Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis at Rutgers University. Dr. Lathrop recently published a study on land use and land cover classification of the entire State of New Jersey entitled "Changing Landscapes in the Garden State: Urban Growth and Open Space Loss in NJ 1986 thru 2007."(pdf) Francica discusses some of the GIS and remote sensing technology applications used to produce this study. The podcast highlights the specifics about the GIS technology and techniques he used and the implications for New Jersey’s communities and legislature to act upon his findings for smart growth initiatives within the state.
In this interview with Gary Gale, director of engineering for Yahoo!‘s Geo Technologies, editor in chief Joe Francica discusses the future of Yahoo! Fire Eagle, the company’s location broker that allows users to update their location as well as how and when to share their location information. In addition, Gale discusses how much support he receives from his upper management and what we can expect from the Geo Technologies’ team in terms of future advancements for Yahoo!‘s mapping platform. Listen Now (to download, right click on the link at left and choose "save target as")
Andre Parris is the global manager for energy and commodity trading at Bloomberg, the financial news publishing conglomerate. Mr. Parris is responsible for developing the BMAP application, a business and location intelligence dashboard that displays a plethora of location-based information related to energy commodities. In this interview with Directions Media’s editor in chief, Joe Francica, Mr. Parris explains how the application was developed and the types of analyses that can be performed by commodity traders to get the latest, real-time information about various factors that might impact commodity prices from around the world. You can listen to the audio interview and view a brief demo of the application below. Listen Now (to download, right click on the link at left and choose "save target as")
In this interview with the Chair-Elect of the Coalition of Geospatial Organizations,COGO, Ms. Geney Terry speaks about how the organization can effect better communication among its members and what that might produce in being better advocates for the broader geospatial community. Editor in Chief, Joe Francica, spoke with Ms. Terry about COGO’s current initiatives and what her objectives are in helping to facilitate COGO’s "voice" in legislative issues before Congress and broadening the organization’s outreach in education and professional development. Listen Now (to download, right click on the link at left and choose "save target as")
