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[The GEO-Jobe Blog] The GEO-Jobe Blog » Follow up from the Trimble Roadshow: Custom Geographic Information Systems (GIS) solutions for local governments, utilities, and educational institutions in Tennessee and the South East.
[Slashgeo] Are Geospatial Tools Design Tools?: The planning, constructing, operation and maintenance of a GIS or survey total station require a series of step-by-step procedures and the application of methodologies and protocols to ensure the project progresses toward successful completion. Is the beauty of a building any different the beauty of designing a spatial analysis procedure for use across a network or the implementation of an efficient GPS data gathering project for wildlife?"
[All Points Blog] Podcast: Three Paths to Open Source Geospatial - All Points Blog: Last month President Obama tapped Sun co-founder Scott McNealy to prepare a document on open source and its potential role in government. But what of open source GIS?
[Slashgeo] Slashgeo | Quantum GIS 1.0 Released!: Thanks for using QGIS---you, the users, have played a large part in its success." A part of what's changed: "QGIS 1.0 brings with it a wealth of improvements, over 265 bug fixes and many new features. This is also a landmark release in that it is our first API stable release and contains a core set of features needed to make QGIS into a very capable and user friendly GIS data browser.
[All Points Blog Comments] Update 7: ESRI Invites Support for GIS for the Nation as Part of ...: In contrast, the worldwide technology community consists of billions of people with a wide range of expertise from the billions who use Google Earth to the few tens of millions who are total stars at development and technology and are eager participants in the lastest tech, including modern GIS. Even if only those few tens of millions of people are seriously guiding technologies of direct relevance to GIS, they'll do a much better job of picking out the right path, the smartest path, the most price/performant path than will Congress.
[Slashgeo] Slashgeo | Surveying OpenStreetMap in Africa: But equally important are open geospatial data licensing, which defines the legalities (intellectual properties rights or IPR) for sharing open geospatial data, and the open geospatial data pricing model that determines how much it is going to cost you and me. Open geospatial data derives from two sources, government and what I'll call non-government open geospatial data organizations, which tend to follow a Web 2.0 model, where the data is collected and contributed by users, typically equipped with a GPS.
[All Points Blog Comments] Update 1: A Third Proposal Regarding Geo and the Stimulus ...: a truly useful aggregation program would fund State-level geospatial data centers, where every geo-program within that State would be allocated a private, secure, and fault-tolerant Terabyte of storage. Programs accepting Federal grant monies would be 'incentivized' to keep an active-active copy of their operational resources [a mirror, with data and software] to provide instant access to the critical infrastructure information...in a secure location.
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