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WAYLAND, Mass.-- The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) is inviting the public to offer change ...

Inaugural ESRI Remote Sensing and GIS Summit to Explore Integrated Management and Use of Vector, Ima...

On-Demand Business Intelligence Applications for Sales Teams Drive 2-10% Revenue Growth...

Olympia, WA – Marshall and Associates, Inc. (Marshall) announced that it has entered a strategic all...

TOWARDS.be blog points toward the Database City: Call for Projects. Organized by MEDIALAB PRADO in Madrid, the projects will be held in conjunction with the VISUALIZAR 08: Database City International Workshop - November 3 - 18. Data Visualization is a transversal discipline which harnesses the immen ...

I got to spend a little time in the last week or two examining integration of web mapping with BusinessObjects XI R2 Web Intelligence, for a little turbo proof-of-concept application - I hadn't seen many folks talking about integrating web mapping and BO, so I figured I would share my own experience ...

You may remember our interview with John Tolva (back in Episode 51) who has worked on some amazing projects with IBM, and now has debuted The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time. This project is exactly the kind of things we are working on in our research, and I have been waiting to finally get [. ...

Adena at Directions Magazine shared the Mozilla announcement that Geode is coming. Geode is a geolocation add-on for Firefox which will enable localized content. ReadWriteWeb describes it as a tool that “understands location, enabling enriched, personalized, and localized content" and VentureBeat ...

The Earth is Square discussed an interesting BBC article about tracking mobile phones to track spending and shopping habbits. From the BBC article: "Mobiles are assigned a temporary anonymous number by the network called a temporary mobile subscriber identity, or TMSI, which the phone periodically t ...

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Over the last few years the name Chandu Thota has become tied closely to all things mapping to come out of Microsoft. His blog has been a resource for all MapPoint and Virtual Earth developers. Chandu's fantastic articles in MSDN and his book on MapPoint development have been wonderful points of re ...

If travelling half way around the globe to Las Vegas to give 4 presentations at DevConnections wasn't enough to stress out Dr. Neil then the new version of Virtual Earth was released. The issues this created have been well documented in the previous posts. Overall this has been a high quality probl ...

Congratulations - you melted our server. After an emergency migration, VVE now has a new home suitable for handling the extreme amounts of traffic we are starting to receive. It's great to the see the community growing around VE as a platform, and great to see people using VVE as the basis for this ...

After a few hiccups related the the v4 release today, Microsoft has now got the v3 control working again. This should mean that apps running on the v2, v3 or v4 map controls should all be functioning again. Thank you Microsoft for reacting promptly and getting this fixed!

Following the release of v4 (Codename "Spaceland") the VVE team decided it'd be a great time to launch a VE Wiki . The wiki is a really easy place to access and share VE code snippets with your fellow developers. Thanks again to John from Soul Solutions in Australia for helping us get the wiki up.

The new GIS Day 2008 flier is now available!  GIS Day is fast approaching on November 19 th and the new flier provides both information and inspiration for celebrating your event.  This colorful flier encourages educators, professionals, and students alike to participate in this global event.  Downl ...

Students with GIS experience can put their skills to use as a volunteer for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. GIS Intern, Barack Obama Campaign Office, Chicago (March 17, 2008) The Barack Obama campaign is looking for a few good GIS interns in our Chicago office. Campaigns are spatially based a ...

This year marks the tenth anniversary of GIS Day.  To commemorate this milestone, there will be a special display at the 2008 ESRI International User Conference.  The multi-panel display will include photos of GIS Day events worldwide, the history of GIS Day, and a few featured events from the last ...

"Well, we are now, because of her (State Chief Information Officer Teri Takai) help, we are moving full steam ahead. A perfect example is, for instance, GIS. GIS is a form of digital mapping technology, kind of like Google Earth but better. (Laughter) During last year's firestorm it allowed firefigh ...

The new GIS Day poster is an ideal educational tool for K-12 students. The front side is a colorful poster containing GIS Day photos from over the years. The inside provides a brief overview of GIS and encourages readers to explore GIS by hosting a GIS Day event, thinking about a future in GIS, or v ...

Common industry perceptions of MySQL and PostgreSQL aren't as true with the current generation of releases as they used to be. DBAs, developers, and IT managers and decision-makers will benefit from this presentation and live Q&A about the pros and cons of using PostgreSQL or MySQL, which will inclu ...

In this webcast we will talk about how to simply build and quickly remix Web 2.0 applications and the role of the IT department and how they support mashups. We will discuss how IBM can help IT teams adapt existing enterprise systems as well as develop unique ones that can support end user driven ma ...

Dr. Dobb's interviews Wolfram Research's Theo Gray, co-founder and Director of User Interfaces, and Robert Germundsson, Director of Research and Development, about the upcoming 2008 International Mathematica Conference.

Attend this Webcast and find out how to overcome common build-test-deploy challenges that affect all members of a distributed team, including: Communication difficulties, because of time-zone and cultural differences Workflow challenges, like lack of documented procedures and build and test h ...

Dr. Dobb's talks with Lennart Regebro about the many things that Zope 2 did right and did wrong. Lennart has also been one of the driving forces behind Five, the integration of Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2.