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Links for 2012-01-26 [Digg]

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST

Nokia Shutting Down Navteq Mobile Developer Resource NN4D | AnyGeo
Well, with all the hooplah, reorganization, restructuring, yadayada going on at Nokia the past year or two you can't really be surprised when you hear something

Nokia Shutting Down Navteq Mobile Developer Resource NN4D

glenn — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:31:27 +0000

Well, with all the hooplah, reorganization, restructuring, yadayada going on at Nokia the past year or two you can’t really be surprised when you hear something to the effect of Navteq...

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Webinar – Hear All About FME 2012 From Don and Dale

glenn — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:15:09 +0000

Recall Safe Software recently announced the release of FME 2012. Well, today you can hear all about it direct from Don Murray and Dale Lutz at Safe Software. What I’m talking about here is a...

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Webinar To Look At Open Source Geo Solutions For Small Business

glenn — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:48:12 +0000

Here’s details of a webinar that should appeal to many. The focus of the event is hot topics such as free tools, and open source software, with a focus on the small business owner. Some...

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MapMyFitness Adds Dog Walk Tracking With MapMyDogWalk

glenn — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:32:05 +0000

I’m a fan of the “MapMyFitness” suite of apps, (you know, these are cool tracking services that store your walks, runs, rides etc… using a mobile client and provide for...

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Smartphones Are Most Popular Home Device And Enable Multi Tasking

glenn — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:21:17 +0000

No huge surprise here in some recent research findings from RazorFish that show the smartphone as being the most favored home device. Interesting to see that the handy gadgets are enabling more...

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Links for 2012-01-24 [Digg]

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST

South Pacific Island of Samoa Changes International Dateline | AnyGeo
Have you checked your International Dateline map data layer recently? Chances are that it's incorrect! Yes indeed, the dateline has changed and you may not know
North America Gets Their Own FOSS4G Conference in D.C, April 10-12, 2012 | AnyGeo
Yep that's right, FOSS4G, North America is coming to D.C. this April 10-12, 2012 and I'm sure as a result, GeoGeeks all over North America are gonna be a bit
Apartments.com location-aware Search for listings on Android | AnyGeo
Apartments.com is the latest local search provider to add to their mobile offerings, this time via a new mobile app for Android device users. Thanks to the
Wildlife Photographer Exhibition, Royal B.C. Museum
In December, 2011 The Royal BC Museum hosted a small group of local social media connected bloggers and photographers to a special sneak preview of the Wildlife Photographer of The Year exhibition....
Social Media Camp Victoria – Coming June 8-9, 2012
An introduction and reminder about Social Media Camp Victoria, from Paul Holmes (@tpholmes) delivered at WordCamp Victoria, Jan 14, 2012. Social Media Camp, June 8-9, 2012 in Victoria B.C Canada
Kiss, Photograph, Record, Share and Win – A Kiss in the City of Victoria
February is just around the corner and that means one thing,Â (no I'm not talking about Groundhog Day) Valentines Day! Via the DVBA facebook page (facebook.com/DowntownVictoria) a fun competition ...

South Pacific Island of Samoa Changes International Dateline

glenn — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:12:17 +0000

Have you checked your International Dateline map data layer recently? Chances are that it’s incorrect! Yes indeed, the dateline has changed and you may not know about it. That’s because...

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Courts Rule Against GPS Tracking

glenn — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:24:24 +0000

A step backwards today for law enforcement agencies who like going all “Jason Bourne” on suspects and tracking their movement with GPS as the courts have ruled that tracking suspects with...

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North America Gets Their Own FOSS4G Conference in D.C, April 10-12, 2012

glenn — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:19:39 +0000

Yep that’s right, FOSS4G, North America is coming to D.C. this April 10-12, 2012 and I’m sure as a result, GeoGeeks all over North America are gonna be a bit giddy over this one! Recall...

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Pennsylvania To Offer Foursquare Badge for Groundhog Day

glenn — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:00:06 +0000

The State of Pennsylvania Tourism agency has been a long time user of foursquare and this year will extend the offerings of those who checkin to special venues in the State with a special Groundhog...

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Apartments.com location-aware Search for listings on Android

glenn — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:12:12 +0000

Apartments.com is the latest local search provider to add to their mobile offerings, this time via a new mobile app for Android device users. Thanks to the devices’ location provisioning...

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Work with JPEG2000 and MrSID on LizardTech GeoViewer for iPad

glenn — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:49:38 +0000

Recall, LizardTech recently announced their GeoViewer app for iPad (iOS), their solution for viewing massive imagery compressed as MrSID and JPEG 2000 formats on your iPad. Users can expect to have...

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Video Maker Tip – Free convert to DIVX AVI MWV MP4 MPEG converter

glenn — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:08:44 +0000

Ever had a video format that you couldn’t easily work with? For example, most cell phones/smartphones will record in MP4, however, you’ll soon notice that many simple video editing app...

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Links for 2012-01-19 [Digg]

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST

The Geography and Importance of Women as Employers in the USA
Some interesting data and graphics shared via this blog post on the importance of small business, and in particular women owned small businesses, and their effect and importance on the economy and job creation.
MapMyFitness Adds More facebook Timeline Integration
There's no doubt that many Geo geeks like technology, particularly cool, social mobile, location aware apps that take advantage of Geospatial technologies.
Can One Protest SOPA Without Blacking Out?
I applaud all those individuals and businesses electing to stand up and show their support in fighting the proposed legislation that threatens Internet freedoms
The Geography and Importance of Women as Employers in the USA
Some interesting data and graphics shared via this blog post on the importance of small business, and in particular women owned small businesses, and their

Trimble Yuma Tablet Computer [Flickr]

@gletham GIS, Social, Mobile Tech Images — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:15:57 PST

@gletham GIS, Social, Mobile Tech Images posted a photo:

The Trimble Yuma Tablet Computer Now Available with 80GB Solid State Drive - see www.gisuser.com/content/view/25599/2/

Links for 2012-01-13 [Digg]

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST

Feature - GIS Responding to Disaster and the 99 Clarksville, TN Tornado Lessons Learned
The purpose of this article is to outline the events which led to the formation of the CMCGIS and its response to the disaster.

Links for 2012-01-10 [Digg]

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST

A MUST Read – Fast 50 Technology Job Trends and Fastest Growing Job Categories
I often simply pass over much of the job related research that comes out at year end. You know, those end of year Top trends articles that we get bombarded

Links for 2012-01-09 [Digg]

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST

MapMart Cloud Rolls onto the GIS Scene
The MapMart Cloud will complement MapMart by offering the same high quality and highly accurate data for consumption via high speed data stream.

Links for 2012-01-06 [Digg]

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST

Canada Open Government Consultation #openGov
The Government of Canada is promoting a new, Open Government consultation process. Open Open Gov Canada, Since the March 2011 launch of the Open Government initiative, the Canadian International Development Agency has joined ...