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[James Fee GIS Blog] James Fee GIS Blog » Blog Archive » The ESRI Enterprise License ...: So having ESRI + non-ESRI on top of a good understanding of GIS is surely an advantage to the individual in the long run, even if they have a bit of a learning curve at the outset. In fact, I’d have thought the very process of learning a new GIS would help you to understand more about the hidden assumptions and pros/cons of each manufacturer’s approach and make you better at picking the right tools for the job.

[edparsons.com] Geo-tagging for the masses | edparsons.com: I remember going to a presentation at AGI in 1996 (I think), where the argument was essentially “we will not be saying the term GIS next year, as it will just be another part of mainstream IT”. But we were still talking GIS the next year…

[Geospatial Industry News - GIS Lounge] OGC and OSGeo Sign Memorandum of Understanding : Geospatial ...: Arnulf Christl, President of OSGeo, said, “We look forward to collaborating with the OGC to identify open source technologies that can be used as reference implementations for OGC standards and to identify standards requirements that result from our open source geospatial software development programs.”

[CADwire.net - All CAD industry news] GIS Next: A Chasm Crossed - Articles: Great thoughts Joe - in fact very timely as we at Autodesk see that GIS and CAD have fully reached the far side of Geoffrey Moore's Technology Life cycle curve where 'laggards' are embracing these technologies fully today. We believe we are already within the next chasm which started with Google - the full 3D & 4D environment of capturing, viewing and analyzing geographic data.

[Cografi Bilgi Sistemleri] GIS Next: A Chasm Crossed « Cografi Bilgi Sistemleri: Mashups are generated on the fly when the need arises, as in the recent California fires (see FireLocator), and it’s not always the GIS standard-bearers who are developing them. It is sometimes the mainstream media that use mashups to quickly convey the news.

[WaterWorld - Online Articles in Business] WaterWorld - Enterprise GIS Performance Software Improves Water ...: The software allows HBWS GIS managers to proactively manage their ArcGIS services to maintain high up-time so service levels are not interrupted and data quality is insured. If performance tolerances are exceeded, GIS managers are notified via email, cell phone text message and desktop display.

[Earth Institute RSS Feed: Education] Spring Climate Change Adaptation Internships Announcement - The ...: Skills Required: Apart from web and library-based research skills, the applicant should possess excellent writing skills and be able to manage English-language editing and copy-editing tasks related to project work. At the end of the spring term the candidate will have the possibility to summarize his/her experience in a conference.

[Directions Magazine - Press Releases] Press Releases - Directions Magazine: About Laurel Hill GIS, Inc: Laurel Hill GIS, an ESRI Authorized Developer, offers QA/QC software products including GeoData Sentry and GeoData Diagnostics. Matt McCain (matt@laurelhillgis.com) Phone: 303 772-6856 .

[The MetaCarta Blog] The Special Significance of GIS Day « The MetaCarta Blog: The day is principally sponsored by the National Geographic Society, the Association of American Geographers, and University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, the United States Geological Survey, The Library of Congress, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and ESRI. A video at the official site has a university professor explaining how GIS technology crosses classrooms in marketing, political science, environmental science, municipal planning, journalism and many other departments.

[All Points Blog] Consumer Electronics Show 2009: A Geo-Highlights Wrap Up - All ...: Join 8000 geographers, GIS specialists, and environmental scientists for the latest in research, policy, and applications in geography, sustainability, and GIScience during the AAG Annual Meeting in Las Vegas to be held March 22-27, 2009.

[The MetaCarta Blog] Blurring the Lines between Consumer and Professional GIS « The ...: As the amount and quality of space imagery is rapidly increasing, it is entering the mainstream. At the beginning of August, at the ESRI International User Conference, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne, announced that the 35 years of archived Landsat data will be made available over the Web free to the public by the end of the year. On August 29, the German company RapidEye launched a ... Blog at WordPress.com. | Theme: Mistylook by Sadish.

[Directions Media - Podcasts] Podast: Geo and the Economic Downturn - All Points Blog: What is becoming a decisive factor in both government and mainstream markets is how much GIS users have to pay for what they get. Depressions have a way of focussing one's mind on that, so it is very disappointing that Directions does not discuss how in an economic downturn the price/performance of their products can determine which companies go out of business and which will thrive.

[Environmental Engineering at Suffolk] Environmental Engineering at Suffolk » Blog Archive » Should ...: And they win. They also have fun, learn valuable skills, challenge mainstream thinking and contribute to society on a grand scale. I recommend checking out their website and the NPR Podcast here:. http://www.evxteam.org/ ...

[James Fee GIS Blog] James Fee GIS Blog » Blog Archive » SQL Server 2008 Finally RTM: Manifold has included direct connect for SQL Server 2008 spatial GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY since July, 2007, seamlessly along with direct spatial DBMS connection for Oracle (both ordinary Oracle with Locator for SDO_GEOMETRY as well as for Oracle Spatial for SDO_GEOMETRY and GeoRasters, in both cases using Oracle’s own Oracle Call Interface, OCI), IBM DB2 with Spatial Extender, PostgreSQL/PostGIS spatial, Manifold’s own spatial extender for SQL Server 2005 (a bridge product we created to help out the SQL Server user base until 2008 was released), and even generic Manifold spatial DBMS storage using “open” types such as OGC WKB for just about any spatial DBMS that supports binary storage, such as MySQL or (not that I’d recommend it…

[Comments for Chris' GISmo's] Manifold vs the world at Chris’ GISmo’s: Part of being wise guys and fanatically pro-Microsoft is that it is a way for Manifold to make it clear to mainstream people that we are not legacy ESRI dolts. When mainstream people go shopping for GIS, they are bedeviled by imbeciles telling them they should spend tens of thousands of dollars on legacy 1990’s junk, by utopian fools who tell them their aim should be to subsidize “cross platform”

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