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U.S. Government App Locates Potholes from GPS As Your Drive Over Them
A story discussed over Salshdot goes like this Gov App Detects Potholes As Your Drive Over Them.Their summary: "The City of Boston has released an app that uses the accelerometer in your smartphone to...
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Governement of Canada Launches Open Data Pilot which Includes Geospatial...
Via internal mail I learned about the launch of the Government of Canada's Open Data pilot project.There's also a link allowing you to directly browse their 'geospatial collection', which, if I'm...
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Where 2.0 2011: Interacting With Local Governments
The first session I attended at the Where 2.0 Conference after the Thursday morning Keynote addresses was a talk entitled “Interacting With Local Governments: Best Practices”. The talk was given by Ben...
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EarthCube - US National Science Foundation Initiative
This announcement may be interesting to the geonews community. Earth Cube is a very ambitious initiative. I did not see Open Source considerations explicitly mentioned. Some experts should review...
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FOSSGIS Brasil Magazine #3
It´s a great pleasure to announce that the FOSSGIS Brasil Magazine #03 is launched. In this issue #03 we talk about the situation of free and opensource geotechnologies in Brazil, specially concerning...
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Legal and Policy Framework for a 'Location-enabled' Economy
Kevin at the 'Centre for Spatial Law and Policy' came up with an interesting list of "fundamental elements of a legal and policy framework necessary for the development of a 'location-enabled'...
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Indian Government To Track Locations of All Cell Phone Users
Yesterday Slashdot discussed a story named Indian Government To Track Locations of All Cell Phone Users.Their summary: "As per amendments made to operators' licences, beginning May 31, operators would...
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Geospatial Jobs and the Geospatial Technology Competency Model
That's the title of a Direction Mag article, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, After All, It’s About Geospatial Jobs.The summary: "The geospatial technology professional is at a turning point. The U.S. Department of...
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GIS Cloud PR: GIS Cloud Shapes Solutions for Organizations, Consultants and...
London - Zagreb, March 20 2012- GIS Cloud has announced they are re-shaping their service to better fit their users’ needs. GIS Cloud will be even easier to use, more cost efficient, provide more...
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How the Public Actually Uses Local Government Web Maps: Metrics from Denver
Many sources pointed to the excellent article from Brian Timoney named How the Public Actually Uses Local Government Web Maps: Metrics from Denver.Here's the metrics, but head to the article to...
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Serving Public Health through Open Health Mapping Services
Eddie sent me this information on a webinar for September 26th on Serving Public Health through Open Health Mapping Services.The invitation: "In this, the fourth GovFuture webinar presented by the Open...
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U.S. Government App Locates Potholes from GPS As Your Drive Over Them
A story discussed over Salshdot goes like this Gov App Detects Potholes As Your Drive Over Them.Their summary: "The City of Boston has released an app that uses the accelerometer in your smartphone to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Governement of Canada Launches Open Data Pilot which Includes Geospatial...
Via internal mail I learned about the launch of the Government of Canada's Open Data pilot project.There's also a link allowing you to directly browse their 'geospatial collection', which, if I'm...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Where 2.0 2011: Interacting With Local Governments
The first session I attended at the Where 2.0 Conference after the Thursday morning Keynote addresses was a talk entitled “Interacting With Local Governments: Best Practices”. The talk was given by Ben...
View ArticleClik here to view.
EarthCube - US National Science Foundation Initiative
This announcement may be interesting to the geonews community. Earth Cube is a very ambitious initiative. I did not see Open Source considerations explicitly mentioned. Some experts should review...
View ArticleClik here to view.
FOSSGIS Brasil Magazine #3
It´s a great pleasure to announce that the FOSSGIS Brasil Magazine #03 is launched. In this issue #03 we talk about the situation of free and opensource geotechnologies in Brazil, specially concerning...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Legal and Policy Framework for a 'Location-enabled' Economy
Kevin at the 'Centre for Spatial Law and Policy' came up with an interesting list of "fundamental elements of a legal and policy framework necessary for the development of a 'location-enabled'...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Indian Government To Track Locations of All Cell Phone Users
Yesterday Slashdot discussed a story named Indian Government To Track Locations of All Cell Phone Users.Their summary: "As per amendments made to operators' licences, beginning May 31, operators would...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Geospatial Jobs and the Geospatial Technology Competency Model
That's the title of a Direction Mag article, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, After All, It’s About Geospatial Jobs.The summary: "The geospatial technology professional is at a turning point. The U.S. Department of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
GIS Cloud PR: GIS Cloud Shapes Solutions for Organizations, Consultants and...
London - Zagreb, March 20 2012- GIS Cloud has announced they are re-shaping their service to better fit their users’ needs. GIS Cloud will be even easier to use, more cost efficient, provide more...
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