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Fetched: August 28th, 2008, 4:31am CEST
VF Corporation, the world's largest apparel company, believes in location intelligence. It's using the technology to learn what consumers want in each geographic area. Then, by feeding demand, VF can enhance profits. Learn how VF worked with SRC to boost the bottom line by tracking 10,000 retail locations, more than 100,000 SKUs (stock keeping units) and 200 lifestyle variables.
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Fetched: August 26th, 2008, 5:30am CEST
With this past weekend's Beijing summer Olympics closing ceremonies the event goes into hibernation for another four years. What will we recall? Phelps' eight swimming golds? The Chinese taking more golds than another other country? A first Olympic gold medal for Mongolia (in judo)? Perhaps. But will anyone following the games say they learned a bit more about the world, about geography?
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Fetched: August 22nd, 2008, 5:21am CEST
REI's Rico Simpkins, Online Community Development Manager, speaks about the past, present and future of REI. Up until now, REI's Internet presence has been merchandise-based. REI's new goal is to bring the community they foster in their stores, to the Web, part of which is getting users to share vacation information such as user-generated maps of their travels. In Rico's words, he wants to develop an "online" community that gets people "offline."
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Fetched: August 21st, 2008, 4:47am CEST
For some, "duty" in Hawaii means sun and fun. For others, especially those working for the NGA, it means watching out for cyclones, tsunamis and terrorism. The NGA team supporting the U.S. Pacific Command has an extremely high operational tempo that contrasts sharply with the relaxing atmosphere of the Hawaiian Islands. The NGA Support Team provides flexible, in-depth and predictive, regionally focused geospatial intelligence analysis to the Joint Intelligence Operations Center and Special Operations Command Pacific and the 7th Fleet.
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Fetched: August 20th, 2008, 3:26am CEST
Amid the gold, silver and bronze of the Beijing Olympics is TIN ... that is, triangulated irregular networks, used to create the terrain models that you see during NBC's televised coverage. High resolution satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe and visualization software from AEgis Technologies helped to create both the terrain and Olympic venue building models that viewers see on TV. Editor-in-chief Joe Francica went behind the scenes to get the details about the mapping and visualization technology that created these incredible graphics.
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Fetched: August 19th, 2008, 7:02am CEST
Our editors ponder Autodesk's quarterly expectation-beating revenues. The company reported solid growth around the world even as gas and food costs remain high. Just what is the company doing right and what can we extrapolate to geospatial companies in particular? Also, a look at Autodesk's recent acquisition of 3D, standards focused company in Germany.
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Fetched: August 14th, 2008, 5:30am CEST
The Shared Land Information Platform (SLIP) has transformed the way the Western Australian government uses and shares spatial information. SLIP uses Internet technology for linking agency systems to create a single online access point to real-time land and property information from more than 200 datasets within 19 agencies. This article highlights the technology behind SLIP and its benefits to the region and beyond.
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Fetched: August 13th, 2008, 7:08am CEST
By the third day of this event, Adena Schutzberg was getting the sort of questions she's come to expect at large geospatial gatherings: "What was the theme?" "What did you see?" "What was the event about?" This year she found three key ideas of note.
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Fetched: August 13th, 2008, 7:08am CEST
The 2008 ESRI User Conference Exhibits cover a huge part of the San Diego Convention Center. Our editors share their finds and observations among the many booths of hardware, software, data and services companies.
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Fetched: August 12th, 2008, 5:30am CEST
Last week Secretary Kempthorne announced plans to appoint a Geographic Information Officer, or GIO, for the Department of the Interior. After having a week to ponder the announcement, our editors raise some practical and political questions about the position and who may fill it.
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Fetched: August 11th, 2008, 5:30pm CEST
Adena Schutzberg made it a point this year on a pass through the exhibit hall to speak to companies with which she was not familiar. She found a bumper crop of small companies with unique ideas about how to use the cloud, build out 3D models for free, and really communicate 3D information.
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Fetched: August 8th, 2008, 7:47am CEST
Korem's JS Turcotte attended the GeoWeb 2008 Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia organized by Galdos Systems recently and offers this overview. The conference focuses on the merging of GIS technologies, methods and applications with the Internet. Approximately 350 people attended the conference, ranging from the traditional GIS crowd to newbies using tools such as Google Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth to geo-enable their Web sites or applications.
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Fetched: August 7th, 2008, 5:30am CEST
Adena Schutzberg reviews two technical keynotes: "A Framework for Implementing GIS on the Web," presented by Clint Brown, and "ArcGIS 9.4, the Road Ahead," presented by Damian Spangrud.
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Fetched: August 6th, 2008, 11:30pm CEST
The downturn in the economy is impacting retailers due to increasing costs for both transportation and raw goods. Editor-in-Chief Joe Francica asked geoVue Vice President of Sales and Marketing David Powell about the technology solutions available to retail and real estate executives who, as a result of this downturn, are facing declining patronage and revenues.
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Fetched: August 6th, 2008, 5:30am CEST
In this interview, Editor-in-chief Joe Francica spoke with Dominique Bonte, Principal Analyst, Telematics & Navigation for ABI Research in London, England. ABI Research released a report (July 2008) stating that Location Based Platforms and Infrastructure Licensing Revenues would reach $2.2 billion by 2013, sizable growth from that of today which ABI estimates at only $111 Million. Francica spoke to Mr. Bonte to get more information on the LBS infrastructure market specifically.
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Fetched: August 5th, 2008, 8:30am CEST
Our editors review the morning plenary at the 2008 ESRI User Conference. The main focus included enhancements in ArcGIS 9.3, 3D, imagery and announcements from Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of Interior, who stole the show.
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Fetched: August 4th, 2008, 5:31am CEST
Speaking at the ESRI UC Senior Executive Summit in San Diego, 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. Read more and listen to Editor-in-chief Joe Francica's interview with Secretary Kempthorne and USGS Director Mark Myers.
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