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Your Source for Geospatial Technology Tuesday | April 29, 2008

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Top Story

Podcast: Do You Think Spatially?Podcast: Do You Think Spatially?

An interactive session at a recent regional GIS event prompted our editors to explore how we are trained in GIS, and how and if we use spatial thinking in our day-to-day work. Are we just pushing buttons and following recipes, or are we truly using the underlying ideas of how people, places and things behave in space? Does it matter if you are trained in geography vs. GIS vs. another discipline? What does the future look like for those skilled (or not) in spatial thinking?


off the beaten path

The US Geological Survey recently released an updated version of the USGS National Seismic Hazard Maps (press release). This one is interactive, allowing you to choose levels of probability and "peak horizontal acceleration" to display. According to the release: "This revision incorporates new seismic, geologic and geodetic information on earthquake rates and the manner in which the energy released in earthquakes dies off with distance from the rupture." Click image for larger view.

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Oracle's Location Intelligence Podcast Series (#6): Oracle Utility Applications and Integration with Oracle Locator, Spatial & MapViewer
Oracle is rapidly location-enabling many of its business applications so that users can access, visualize, query and analyze spatial information together with non-spatial information in the same enterprise database, from the same familiar application environment. In this podcast, learn firsthand how Oracle Utilities is taking advantage of Oracle Application Server MapViewer, Oracle Locator and Oracle Spatial in utility industry applications. In addition, you'll hear how many of the Oracle applications that were acquired from Siebel, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft will use Oracle Spatial Technology. We are speaking to Peter Turi, Director, Product Management, Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management, and Jim Steiner, Senior Director, Oracle Server Technology.

ESRI's ArcGIS 9.3 Podcast Series (#2): What's coming in the Geodatabase for 9.3
In this podcast, Derek Law, Geodatabase Technical Analyst at ESRI, gives an overview of what's new in the ArcGIS 9.3 geodatabase.


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