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Directions Magazine: GIS News, Articles, Maps, Data, Tools
Your Source for Geospatial Technology Monday | June 23, 2008

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Top Story

What's the Next Hot Geographic Data Set?

And how do we find it? How about looking at new devices. The New York Times reviews the Ikan, a countertop scanner that captures barcodes from grocery packages to build your shopping list for a delivery service. That's not so interesting, but this is: the device, after being customized for you will note which of the packages can be recycled in your municipality.


Books

Elevation Data for Floodplain Mapping
The United States currently spends more than $200 million per year on the Flood Map Modernization program. The report shares the results of a study made by the National Academies at Congress's request to identify the mapping technologies available and, more specifically, those used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for flood mapping. From National Academies Press, 2007.



GIS Applications in Agriculture
Innovators and experts in the application of GIS in agriculture share methodologies for using the technology to more efficiently produce crops. From CRC, 2007.




Archaeology and Geoinformatics: Case Studies from the Caribbean
"A great contribution to Caribbean and island archaeology since it covers most of the Caribbean and includes a variety of topics, from purely academic studies on migration and slavery, to more applied approaches where geoinformatics is used for CRM purposes." - Antonio Curet, The Field Museum. From The University of Alabama Press, 2008.

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Pitney Bowes MapInfo's White Paper Series (#1): Deploying Location Intelligence in SOA (registration required)
Spatial Information, commonly known as "location," relates to involving, or having the nature of "where." Spatial is not constrained to a geographic location however most common business uses of spatial information deal with how spatial information is tied to a location on the earth.

ESRI's Podcast Series (#4): Overview of ArcGIS Server 9.3
In this continuing series on Location Intelligence by Oracle, we hear how R.L. Polk and Company develops spatial applications with Oracle MapViewer and Java tools. Oracle provides tools to view business information from your corporate database on maps and perform spatial analysis from your own familiar enterprise application environment. Listen to this podcast and learn how Polk uses Oracle Spatial technology to develop its automotive research applications.


All Points Blog

The Great Tomato Chase

Virtual Sticky Note

Laser Range Finders on Google StreetView Cars


Press Releases

NGA Makes Imagery of Midwest Flooding Available to the Public

Blue Marble Debuts Online Library with Search Functions

Fish Partners with Technology Forums to Leverage RFID Technology

Abraham Anson Memorial Scholarship Established By ASPRS

Directions Media Announces the 2008 Rocket City Geospatial Conference

1Spatial to propose geospatial data consistency options at INSPIRE Conference

Experience Global Telecommunication Services exhibited by OmniGlobe Networks at the 2008 Wireless and Mobile Conference and Expo

3DVU's Mobile Navigation Best Seller on Sprint's Shop

State of Montana Signs ESRI Enterprise License Agreement

ALK Releases PC*MILER Web Services 22


New Jobs

Senior Developer Smallworld Magik
United States of America, CO, Lakewood

Map Info Developer
United States of America, CA, San Diego

Software Engineer
United States of America, CA, San Diego

ArcGIS Desktop Senior Product Engineer
United States of America, CA, Redlands

GIS Analyst - Adelaide
Australia, South Australia


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