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Your Source for Geospatial Technology Friday | May 16, 2008

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Top Story

Addressing FireAddressing Fire

England's fire services are tapping into many location technologies to get the right information to the right people at the right time. Many partners have come together to outfit vehicles across the region with Mobile Data Terminals complete with data from the National Land and Property Gazetteer. Carl Hancock explains how it all comes together.


off the beaten path

This rather sophisticated Google mashup, DishPointer, helps you figure out where to point a satellite dish from your addess to get the best reception. According to the site, "When I [the developer] posted this tool on my UK blog, over 40,000 people used it in just under 3 weeks. So, I think it's on the right track." Copyright DishPointer.com, used with permission. Click 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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