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Your Source for Geospatial Technology	Friday \| January 25, 2008

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Technology Convergence, Market Horizontalization and, Voila : Information Fusion

Some of us can remember when telephone, print media, film, radio, TV, phonograph, photographs and computer data (what little there was) were treated as separate or "stovepiped" technologies. Over the last several years, technology convergence has resulted in a new generation of multimedia and multimode communication products. The same is true of geo-enabled technologies - they are converging and their respective markets are becoming more horizontal. The OGC's Executive Director for Outreach, Sam Bacharach, explains how standards are playing a role in this convergence.

quote of the week

"We're considering holding a competition. We want to challenge people to find out how much naughty stuff is happening. If you're having an affair in London, you'd better be careful!"

- Alastair Crawford, 192 chief executive, quoted in the Guardian on his company's new 4 cm oblique online database of London

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Podcast: GITA's Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference Explained

Nora Parker interviewed members of GITA's organization about the major changes the organization is making to its flagship annual conference. This year there will be a significant focus on infrastructure - an area that is screaming for attention, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers 2005 report card. "There is a huge need for technology to solve our current social and economic problems," said GITA's executive director, Bob Samborski, and this year's conference aims to provide the resources to do that. He was joined in the interview by this year's GITA president David Nemeth of Panhandle Energy and the 2008 program chair, Mike Cerkas of GeoAnalytics. This podcast is sponsored by GITA.

All Points Blog

Trimble Stock on the Rise Due to Stock Repurchase

Using Camera Phone Images of Paper Maps as LBS Interface?

Mapping in Mittens

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Press Releases

AIS Announces an Exclusive Agreement with SAIC for the Urban Reality System

OGC Data Quality Working Group Closing Survey on Spatial Data Quality Measures January 25th

PCI Geomatics Announces Senior Executive Appointment

Local Governments Migrate From ArcIMS To ArcGIS Server

Trimble Acquires Géo-3D Inc. to Provide Transportation Infrastructure Inventory Solutions

Trimble Raises Fourth Quarter 2007 Revenue and Earnings Per Share Guidance: Reiterates 2008 Revenue Outlook

GGP Systems gives a unique vision to urban regeneration in Salford

INRIX and TomTom Expand North American Partnership to Include Comprehensive Traffic-Enabled Content and Services

Spatial Wave releases Mapplet.NET 4.0 for advanced Enterprise GIS viewing

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Director of Higher Education
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GIS Technician
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