2006 November 16

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Editor's Introduction

This week I bring you an interview with an ESRI product engineer on ArcGIS Survey Analyst and a sampling of GIS Day activities around the country. Personally, I attended two GIS Day events yesterday: one in Salem, Oregon, and one at the University of Oregon, in Eugene; more on the latter next week. I also bring to your attention a New York Times article, plus my usual round-up of news items from press releases.

— Matteo

GIS for Surveyors

Last week, I spent two days at ESRI's headquarters in Redlands, California, for a training in ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 and to tour the campus. I also took the opportunity to have a long conversation with Tim Hodson, Product Engineer for ESRI's Survey Analyst extension. We mostly focused on two topics: GIS for surveyors and the software development process. Here is what he told me on the first topic.

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GIS Day 2006

This week is Geography Awareness Week (GAW), which has been held the third week of November since 1987, sponsored by the National Geographic Society, the Association of American Geographers, the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, the United States Geological Survey, the Library of Congress, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and ESRI.


GIS Day at the State Capitol in Salem, Oregon.

The Wednesday of GAW is GIS Day, when hundreds of events are held in more than 70 countries, showcasing and demonstrating GIS and promoting geographic literacy. (A few GIS Day events are held a few days before or after November 15, due to scheduling conflicts. In a few cases I've come across, the event's website, at the top, gives November 15 as the date of the event, but the text, lower on the page, gives a different date. The reason is that many of these sites use ESRI's GIS Day banner, which includes the date... even though the particular event may be on a different date!)

I asked the organizers of a couple of dozen GIS Day events three questions:

  1. What is the theme/focus, if any, of your GIS Day event this year?
  2. Will it include any special presentations or exhibits?
  3. Who is your target audience (e.g., the general public, students, public employees, etc.)?

Following is a sampling of the responses I received.

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Briefly Noted

Yesterday's New York Times featured a story on the growing popularity of GPS-based navigation devices and the sharply dropping prices. Nothing new, but a good summary.

News Briefs

Please note: I have culled the following news items from press releases and have not independently verified them.

  1. CONTRACTS & COLLABORATIONS

    1. Geomatic Technologies (GT) together with the Victorian Department of Infrastructure (DOI), has won the Spatially Enabling Government Award at the Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards (APSEA), held in Brisbane on November 9. Read more …

    2. In October 2006, the Alice-SC ground receiving station was put into operation in the National Centre for Remote Sensing (NCRS) in Nigeria. Read more …

    3. Brisbane Water, one of the largest water utilities in Australia, has selected WaterGEMS V8 XM Edition, Bentley's water distribution modeling solution, to manage the municipality's complex water network. Read more …

    4. GeoDecisions, a GIS company, recently completed its Geographical Resource Intranet Portal Version 3 (GRIPv3) project for the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT). Read more …

  2. PRODUCTS

    1. Digital Data Technologies, Inc. (DDTI) has launched the free download of its AccuGlobe Desktop 2007 software. Read more …

    2. IBM is developing a telematics box for a wide range of application areas and industries worldwide. Read more …

    3. ITT Visual Information Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of ITT Corporation, has announced the upcoming release of a new update for ENVI 4.3.1, which will provide an enterprise solution for accessing geospatial imagery. Read more …

    4. ITT Visual Information Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of ITT Corporation, has announced the upcoming release of Image Access Solutions (IAS) 3.0, its advanced family of COTS software products used for delivering, accessing, and managing large geospatial images and metadata. Read more …

    5. MapInfo Corporation, a provider of location intelligence solutions, will unveil AnySite Financial, a comprehensive display analytics solution for market analysis, performance assessment, and target marketing, at the BAI Retail Delivery Conference & Expo, taking place November 14-16. Read more …

    6. CSI's Hemisphere GPS division, a designer and manufacturer of GPS products used in more than 50 countries, has introduced its new Crescent R100 Series DGPS Receiver, a solution for professional mapping, guidance, and navigation applications. Read more …

    7. Handmark, creator of the Pocket Express mobile Internet experience, and Zagat Survey, a provider of consumer survey-based dining, travel, and leisure information, have announced the availability of the new ZAGAT TO GO v5.0. Read more …

    8. LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, has released the ArcMap Plug-in for Spatial Express, an add-on to ESRI's ArcMap application. Read more …

    9. TerraGo Technologies has released MAP2PDF for GeoTIFF, allowing TerraGo customers to create GeoPDF files directly from GeoTIFF files. Read more …

    10. WhiteStar Corp. has introduced Unlimited Grid Access (UGA - pronounced Uggah!), a seamless digital mosaic of land survey and fitted county boundaries covering all public land survey states, Texas, and Offshore State and Federal Waters in the Gulf of Mexico. Read more …

  3. CONFERENCES

    1. Intergraph Corporation has announced Intergraph 2007, to be held May 21-24 in Nashville, Tennessee. Read more …

    2. The Program Committee of the Third International Conference "Earth from Space - the Most Effective Solutions" has been formed, joined by the representatives of the world's leading remote sensing operators and companies specializing in space data and GIS-applications processing; by representatives of scientific and educational institutions. Read more …

    3. GeoSpatial Training Services, in conjunction with Landworks, Inc., will present two new instructor-led courses covering the Google Maps API and Google Earth. Read more …

  4. PEOPLE

    1. ESRI's education industry team, which covers primary and secondary (K-12) education, higher education (college and university), and informal education (youth clubs, museums, and libraries), is growing. Read more …

    2. DMTI Spatial (DMTI), a provider of mapping and location Intelligence solutions, has appointed George Staikos as Senior Vice President & General Manager, Canada. Read more …

  5. OTHER

    1. MWH Soft, a provider of environmental and water resources applications software, has launched its Professional Services Division. Read more …

    2. Hyperspectral remote sensing is an established but sometimes under-utilized tool in the quest to cost-effective exploration using mineral mapping. Read more …

    3. The BE Careers Network has launched the 2007 BE Awards of Excellence student competition. Read more …

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