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Enhanced Data Management, New Cartographic Tools, and More Efficient Information Sharing...

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...

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Autodesk and Bentley held a joint press conference today to announce an agreement that will expand interoperability between their various products. The plan calls for a sharing of software libraries so that each will have the ability to read and write respective DWG and DGN formats. The companies al ...

Before you get too excited, the implications for geospatial are apparently not great. I'm not aware of any geospatial press who were invited to listen to the conference call this afternoon. I'll explain a bit more why the implications are not great after getting to the gist of the announcement. Here ...

I really do enjoy books that ESRI publishes (if only they were cheaper) and I’ve noticed two books coming up that really interest me. The first, “Building a GIS” by Dave Peters looks to be a big help with implementing GIS at organizations. In fact ESRI is pushing it as a “companion” to ...

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The new ViaWindowsLive community site has launched and features not only a definitive set of resources on all Live Services from Microsoft but also a special section on Virtual Earth including a new site gallery for you to upload your sites, new articles on Version 6 , including getting started guid ...

It has been reported that the old url to access the Version5 javascript for Virtual Earth no longer works. This is effecting sites worldwide. The correct way to reference the Version 5 javascript is: If you have been effected a forum thread has been started here

With the launch of silverlight yesterday I was digging around and found this viewer for Virtual Earth by Greg Schechter. It does use the 1.1 alpha of silverlight. It gives some interesting ideas for where Virtual Earth could be headed. Certainly the demo of the performance of silverlight compared to ...

I subscribe to all the VE blogs and recently the posts about updated imagery has been more and more frequent. The latest is here and for myself downunder we saw three updates, Canberra, Newcastle and Uluru:

A big thank you to the efforts of Derek Chan who posted his third VE article today (he actually had it ready weeks ago but had to wait for Mr Bottleneck here at VVE ;) ) The 3 articles are all relivant to Version 5 of Virtual Earth and deal with the Mini Map, debugging javascript and now custom pins ...

"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 ...

Situated in the Himalayas at around 10,500 feet, the Gangotri Glacier is the source of the holy River Ganges.  Its headwaters pour from an ice cave on the glacier and flow for more than 1,500 miles to the Bay of Bengal. Among more than 7,000 Himalayan glaciers, Gangotri is one of the largest, measur ...

GIS is a vital tool for scientists and public health officials investigating the cause and spread of deadly diseases around the world.  Outbreaks of infectious diseases such as SARS can be quickly analyzed using GIS tools. The SARS Mapping Web site was developed by ESRI China (Hong Kong) to track t ...

During the 1800's, England suffered regular epidemics of Asiatic cholera that killed thousands of its residents.  Opinions in the medical community regarding the origins of the disease were divided, and, as such, no effective prevention or treatment was implemented. Physician John Snow set out to pr ...

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.

Dr. Dobb's interviews Ubuntu's Gerry Carr about the Linux-based Ubuntu operating sytem and the application lifecycle tools -- such as the recently released Launchpad -- that surround it.

Dr. Dobb's talks with Patrick Lenz, author of the book Simply Rails 2 about the improvements in the latest release of the Ruby on Rails framework and the challenge of finding a European-based Rails hosting service.

Dr. Dobb's interviews Paul Fremantle, CTO of WSO2 about the company's open source ESB announcement.

Dr. Dobb's talks to Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, about the Eclipse Ganymede release, a coordinated release of 23 different Eclipse project teams and represents over 18 million lines of code.