Adena Schutzberg is attending deCarta's developers conference (devCON07). deCarta (once Telcontar) provides a geospatial development platform. It’s used by the likes of Google, Ask.com, NIM (developer of phone-based navigation system VZ Navigator for Verizon) among others. More than 200 of the company’s partners and customers gathered in
San Jose to learn about new developer tools and what their peers are doing at devCON 2007. While the majority of the attendees are technical, their colleagues in business development and marketing are represented. Schutzberg offers these report.
Our most recent poll asked whether you have used a paper road map, atlas or globe in the past month. It turns out a large percentage of respondents continue to rely on paper products: of our 115 respondents, 83% used a map in the preceding week. This finding is significantly different from that of a recent national telephone survey conducted
by Leo J. Shapiro & Associates. That study of more than 450 people found that only 30% of respondents had done so. The next poll (lower right side of the home page) asks how long you expect it will take for the majority of PNDs to be connected via Internet/cell connection for data
update and enhanced features.
During the past month have you used a paper road map, an atlas or a world globe?
Excerpts from letters and comments from the previous week (or so) appear on Thursdays. Follow the links provided to read the full comments.
We welcome your praise and criticism via our comments tools provided along with articles on the website, or via
e-mail.
Commercial Imagery Strategy Focused on End-userA
comment on
this article by Jeff Leonard and Lynn Mueller, which was reprinted from
Pathfinder.
"NGA serves its Federal clients reasonably well...but needs to focus considerable effort on the dissemination and access portions of
its supply chain. ..."
- Archie Belany, Grey Owl Geomatics
In the Middle of a Firestorm – Literally ... The Southern California Fires, and Support from ESRIOne more
comment (about another comment) on Joe Francica's
article about ESRI's response to the Southern California fires.
... "I disagree with the comment that getting data to the public in minutes should be a measure of technical accomplishment. It can already be done, organizational policy and practice are more the issue, decidedly human factors. ..."
- Shawn Messick, iMMAP
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