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      <title>The National Broadband Map: Case Study on Open Innovation for National Policy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The White House issued an Open Data during the first week of May. Last year the FCC detailed how valuable its open data policy had been to the country in a case study of broadband mapping put together by the Woodrow WIlson Center. The executive summary and a video provide an introduction to what the agency learned.]]></description> 
      
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      <title>Privacy and Personal Geographic Data</title>
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      <title>TruePosition Tackles Indoor Locating</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[TruePosition released testing results of its indoor location technology in April. These tests put the company squarely into the Federal Communication Commission explorations of indoor locating for emergency response. Directions Magazine interviewed Rob Andersen, chief technology officer of TruePosition, about the company&amp;rsquo;s technology and plans for the future.]]></description> 
      
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      <title>Google Geospatial Announcements from Google I/O 2013: Should GIS Users Care?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Google announced new location services APIs, a new Google Maps and a visual refresh for Google Maps at Google I/O last week. There was lots of descriptive coverage from the mainstream and tech press. But there was very little response from the geospatial community &#45; except from Esri. Who should or should not be excited about the new Google Maps and APIs?]]></description> 
      
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      <title>More than Mapping: Using GIS for disaster management</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 02:00:37 -0500</pubDate> 
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      <description><![CDATA[The devastation of Hurricane Sandy and the western wildfires in 2012 are sobering reminders that utilities always need to be prepared to respond to large&#45;scale natural disasters. When faced with incidents of that size, a utility is forced to look at all of its resources in preparation, including those it doesn&amp;rsquo;t typically utilize under normal conditions. Danny Petrecca, director of Product Management Enterprise GIS at Schneider Electric, explains how a typical implementation for an enterprise&#45;wide GIS system can be used to better prepare utilities for disasters.]]></description> 
      
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      <title>Wyndham City Council Further Enhances its Residents Geographic Information with an Enterprise GIS Solution</title>
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      <title>GEOStore: New Web Marketing and Distribution Techniques for Geolocated Digital Content</title>
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      <title>Privatizing National Mapping Technology</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 03:31:38 -0500</pubDate> 
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      <description><![CDATA[Google has not only become the de facto mapping app, the de facto navigation app, the de facto remote sensing app, the de facto change detection app, etc. It&#39;s the de facto National Map, as well. The USGS collected the data (imagery, topo, etc.) but Google monetized it. Is this an acceptable model where the government invests but the private sector monetizes the data? What is the future of privatization of national geodata?]]></description> 
      
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      <title>Why Gartner&#x2019;s Magic Quadrant Missed the Importance of Location Analytics to Business Intelligence</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 02:15:35 -0500</pubDate> 
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      <author>Joe Francica</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Location&#45;based data and analysis are considered so critical to the understanding of a business&amp;rsquo; operations that business analytics software companies routinely and prominently boast maps as part of their dashboard visualization toolkits. But Gartner, the market research company, gives scant mention of the importance of location intelligence. Editor in Chief Joe Francica looks at what&amp;rsquo;s missing from its most recent &amp;ldquo;Magic Quadrant&amp;rdquo; report.&amp;nbsp;]]></description> 
      
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      <title>Western U.S. Disasters and Health &amp;amp; Air Quality: California Flames and Oregon Plains - NASA DEVELOP</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 04:00:48 -0500</pubDate> 
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      <title>Free as in Painstaking Cartography Labor</title>
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      <title>Search Across Many Data Sources From A Single Interface</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 07:15:03 -0500</pubDate> 
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      <title>How Important is Location in Location-based Advertising?</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 03:29:17 -0500</pubDate> 
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      <description><![CDATA[How important is the recipient&#39;s location when sending location&#45;based ads? Perhaps not as important as other factors.]]></description> 
      
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      <title>Tweeting the AAGs: Do Geographers Geotag more than Everyone Else?</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 13:01:45 -0500</pubDate> 
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      <title>Ten Things You Need to Know About Indoor Positioning</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 01:36:48 -0500</pubDate> 
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      <author>Adena Schutzberg</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Each year indoor positioning has created more buzz in the location&#45;based services arena. Acquisitions and new developments suggest 2013 might be a breakthrough year for the technology. Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg shares the basics on how it works and where it might be headed.]]></description> 
      
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