GEO World back issues from July 2008:
Mobility just flew over the moon.(POSITION)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Last year, I decided to upgrade my cell phone. My old one worked fine, designed as it was to do what cell phones were traditionally designed to do: make phone calls. However, with the advent of new "smart phones," I thought it was time to go ahead and upgrade to something that did much ...
Millions of Burmese affected by Cyclone Nargis.(NEWSLINK)
Jul 01, 2008 ... As many as 3.2 million Burmese are estimated to be affected by the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis, according to geographic risk models developed by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Lehman College, CUNY. The researchers used GIS models that were ...
Secret cell-phone tracking indicates movement patterns.(NEWS LINK)
Jul 01, 2008 ... A six-month study tracked the movements of human travel patterns using cell-phone data from cell-phone users in an undisclosed country. The phone users were unaware that their movements were being tracked, and the research has led to discussions regarding privacy implications. ...
Raindrop size matters with hurricanes.(NEWSLINK)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Tropical Storm Gaston hit South Carolina on Aug. 29, 2005, and large amounts of small-and mid-sized raindrops poured across several states, including the city of Richmond, Va. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] New NASA research concluded that tropical cyclones such as Gaston ...
River Bend Prospector.(RESOURCEOFTHEMONTH)
Jul 01, 2008 ... www.riverbendprospector.com River Bend Prospector is an interactive Internet mapping program that provides enhanced economic-development and site-selection services to the business community within the Illinois-based River Bend region .The site allows users to search for ...
Bluesky.(RESOURCEOFTHEMONTH)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... www.bluesky-world.com Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council is serving aerial photography from Bluesky to 4,000 desktops via the council's intranet-based GIS; Also, Kirklees Council is using a thermal-image map created by Bluesky to ...
CDR Group.(RESOURCEOFTHEMONTH)
Jul 01, 2008 ... www.cdrgroup.co.uk CDR Group released its ...
Digital Map Products.(RESOURCEOFTHEMONTH)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Online real estate Web site Zillow.com added Digital Map Products' enhanced parcel-boundary ...
DTN/Meteorlogix.(RESOURCEOFTHEMONTH)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... DTN/Meteorlogix added new severe-weather management capabilities to MxVision WeatherSentry Online Professional Edition that include a dynamic lightning-alerting system that sends out three alerts: an early advisory, an "act now" warning notice and the "all ...
GGP Systems.(RESOURCEOFTHEMONTH)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Uttlesford District Council adopted a community Web portal, eGaz, developed by GGP Systems, that collates ...
MAPLight.org.(RESOURCEOFTHEMONTH)
Jul 01, 2008 ... www.MAPLight.org MAPLight.org, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization illuminating ...
MapMart.com.(RESOURCEOFTHEMONTH)
Jul 01, 2008 ... www.MapMart.com MapMart.com, a division of IntraSearch Inc., is making ...
Northport Systems Inc.(RESOURCEOFTHEMONTH)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Northport Systems upgraded its online map resource, Fugawi Touratel, which allows users to view and ...
Azteca Systems Inc.(PEOPLELINK)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Azteca Systems Inc. appointed Josh Stroessner as regional account manager, and Becky ...
Bentley Systems Inc.(PEOPLELINK)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Bentley Systems Inc. appointed Harry Vitelli as vice president, platform ...
DMTI Spatial announced a company realignment.(PEOPLELINK)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... DMTI Spatial announced a company realignment. George Staikos, senior vice president and general manager, will lead the Client Management Division; Michael Byalik, senior vice president and ...
East View Information Services (EVIS).(PEOPLELINK)
Jul 01, 2008 ... East View Information Services (EVIS) added Robert Lee, director of online publishing, and Dena Schoen, director of sales. East View Cartographic (EVC) added Dana Richard, ...
Jessica Susich.(PEOPLELINK)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Geographic Technologies Group added ...
Ralph Spiegleman.(PEOPLELINK)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Ralph Spiegleman became Geo Spatial ...
Scott Parker.(PEOPLELINK)
Jul 01, 2008 ... IDV Solutions appointed Scott Parker ...
George Southard.(PEOPLELINK)
Jul 01, 2008 ... George Southard, vice president, Americas Digital Imaging, Leica Geosystems, was elected chairman of ...
Dana Trethewy.(PEOPLELINK)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Marshall promoted Dana ...
Gregg Steliga.(PEOPLELINK)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Navman Wireless North America hired Gregg ...
Joseph K. Dodd.(PEOPLELINK)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Northrop Grumman Corp. appointed Joseph K. Dodd to vice president of business ...
Brian Bullock.(PEOPLELINK)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Psomas appointed Brian Bullock, Tim Hayes, ...
Kevin Daugherty.(PEOPLELINK)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Kevin Daugherty joined The Sidwell ...
GIS and OEM.(PEOPLE LINK)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Topcon Positioning Systems promoted to product manager and Jim Hinson to PSG professional-services ...
CEO.(PEOPLE LINK)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation elected CEO, president and ...
Woolpert inc.(PEOPLELINK)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Woolpert Inc. hired Joe Seppi as a photogrammetry and remote-sensing project director; Bryan Dickerson as eastern regional manager of enterprise information-management operations; Kevin Richardson as a survey project manager; Tim ...
USGS moves on imagery contracts.(GOVERNMENT CONNECTION)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded three multiyear contracts for high- and moderate-resolution satellite imagery to Dulles, Va.-based GeoEye; Longmom, Colo.-based DigitalGlobe; and Chantilly, Va.-based SPOT Image Corp. The contracts should provide USGS and other federal ...
NOAA improves Ocean data capabilities.(GOVERNMENT CONNECTION)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is linking together ocean-observation data from a variety of federal and nonfederal sources. The project should make it easier to access ocean-temperature, salinity, water-level, current, wind and wave data gathered by NOAA and ...
NGA plots path to new Virginia home.(GOVERNMENT CONNECTION)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The National Geospatial-lntelligence Agency (NGA) continues to prepare for a major move. The agency awarded Fairfax, Va.-based Systems Research and Applications Corp. (SRA) a four-year, $34-million contract to help the agency move to a new headquarters at Fort Belvoir in northern Virginia ....
Myriad techniques help interpolate spatial distributions.(BEYOND MAPPING)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Statistical sampling has long been at the core of business research and practice. Traditionally, data analysis used nonspatial statistics to identify the "typical" level of sales, housing prices, customer income, etc., throughout an entire neighborhood, city or region. Considerable effort ...
Do you Honestly think digital storage is free?(INTERSECT)
Jul 01, 2008; ... IT Mark says ... In any organization with a server environment, you barely think twice about the "how's" and "where's" of data. You hit "save," come back in the morning, and your data are still there. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] These days, there are file ...
What's old is new again; Pen and paper return to mobile GIS.(Field Work)(Cover story)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Field data collection is vital to the work of many enterprises and government agencies driving important decisions that ultimately affect the "bottom line." But many of the current methods and technologies are inconvenient, error-prone and time-consuming. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Smart maps; Improving map access for the field workforce.(Industry Trends)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Utilities have invested heavily in creating enterprise GISs, and they've realized major returns from a unified view of the utility's facilities to feed operations and maintenance processes such as outage management, system planning and graphic work design. But a common constraint in a GIS ...
The sound of silence? mobilizing GIS for airport noise mitigation.(Mobile Applications)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Two people sit with an elderly woman in her kitchen, chatting about neighborhood issues. One occasionally taps lightly on a tablet PC computer screen with a stylus, capturing improtant information for a field survey. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Across the ...
GGP Systems.(DATA)
Jul 01, 2008 ... GGP Systems released GGP 2008, which provides access to records and mapping overlays held in other systems with the ability to ...
DMTI Spatial.(DATA)
Jul 01, 2008 ... DMTI Spatial announced the availability of rural ...
Unearthed Outdoors LLC.(DATA)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Unearthed Outdoors LLC released "Our True Marble," medium-resolution imagery ...
Abaco Srl.(SOFTWARE)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Abaco Srl introduced its integrated Land Management Information System under the name "SITI Project," which is designed for central and local authorities ...
ALK technologies inc.(SOFTWARE)
Jul 01, 2008 ... ALK Technologies Inc. launched CoPilot Live 11, a trip-planning and GPS navigation system for Windows laptops that ...
Cadcorp.(SOFTWARE)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Cadcorp launched two new applications to enable loading and maintenance of Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI) and Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland (OSNI) large-scale data into Oracle ...
The Carbon Project.(SOFTWARE)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The Carbon Project announced the latest update to Carbon Tools PRO, a geospatial-interoperability toolkit for .NET developers. The release includes updated support to OGC ...
Mercury computer systems Inc.(SOFTWARE)
Jul 01, 2008 ... released Avizo, which provides 3-D image and simulation ...
Topcon positioning systems.(SOFTWARE)
Jul 01, 2008 ... offers Topcon Image Master Modeler Software that allows users to generate 3-D models from ...
Dash Navigation Inc.(HARDWARE)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Dash Navigation Inc. and Amazon.com now are shipping ...
GETAC Inc.(HARDWARE)
Jul 01, 2008 ... GETAC Inc. launched its Model PS535E Rugged PDA, a combination PDA and GPS device that ...
Cary and Associates.(MISC.)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Cary and Associates released the sixth edition of its market ...
Where are standards headed next?(OPEN GEOSPATIAL CONNECTION)
Jul 01, 2008; ... The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has approved 27 international standards that are widely implemented in applications and services which enable open Web-based publishing, discovery and access of geospatial content. OGC standards apply to geospatial content as well as services ...