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 Understanding Project Operations in the GIS Environment
Some
GIS managers don't consider "operations management" a part of managing
a GIS project. Cutting your grass is considered "operations" as you
repeat this task once a week in the summer. Installing a pool in your
backyard is considered a "project" because it is a one-time effort. The
difference between operations and projects can be confusing but
significant. Dr. Mohamed Kayyali explains.
 New Book: Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data
Structures
In his latest book, Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures,
Hanan Samet, renowned authority on this topic, presents a comprehensive
view of spatial data structures and indexing that includes some of his
own major algorithms, as well as those of other computer scientists. He
is considered an expert on the use of hierarchical data structures such
as the quadtree, which is often used to partition a two-dimensional
space by recursively subdividing it into four quadrants, thereby
providing a means to index the data that they span.
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Do you think about building a business
around "free"? Do you ever really consider your product's design? Hear
about these topics from Steve Coast, founder of OpenStreetMap and
Cloudmade, and Jeff Christensen, chief product officer of Rhiza Labs, at
the Location Intelligence Conference 2009. Coast was named one of the
most influential geospatial leaders by Directions Magazine readers.
Christensen, who is not a "GIS guy," brings his engaging speaking style
and outsider perspective to the challenges every geo player faces.
Registration reduced! The deadline to register for $299 is TODAY (use code
ea59af4d). Each week, registration will go up $100 so take advantage of this
special registration rate today! Register today!
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 Location-Based Services and Geo-Information Engineering
Location-Based
Services (LBS) are the delivery of data and information services where
the content of those services is tailored to the current location and
context of a mobile user. This is a new and fast-growing technology
sector incorporating GIS, wireless technologies, positioning systems
and mobile human-computer interaction. Geo-Information Engineering is
the design of dependably engineered solutions to society's use of
geographical information and underpins applications such as LBS. These
are brought together in this comprehensive text that takes the reader
through from source data to product delivery. From Wiley, 2009.
 Weaving Services and People on the World Wide Web
Ever
since its inception, the Web has changed the landscape of human
experiences on how we interact with one another and data through
service infrastructures via various computing devices. This
interweaving environment is now becoming ever more embedded into
devices and systems that integrate seamlessly on how we live, both in
our working or leisure time. For this volume, King and Baeza-Yates
selected some pioneering and cutting-edge research work that is
pointing to the future of the Web. Based on the Workshop Track of the
17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008) in Beijing, they
selected the top contributions and asked the authors to resubmit their
work with a minimum of one third of additional material from their
original workshop manuscripts to be considered for this volume. After a
second-round of reviews and selection, 16 contributions were finally
accepted. From Springer, 2009.
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Tutorial: Discover the Tools and Skills Needed to Location-enable Enterprise Oracle Deployments (registration required)
Directions Media Webinar Series - Sponsored by NAVTEQ
NAVTEQ
and Oracle present this webinar to help attendees discover the
software tools and skill set needed to location-enable enterprise
Oracle deployments using NAVTEQ data. This instructional tutorial
covers the following: the Oracle components used in mapping solutions;
out-of-the-box maps for the Oracle environment from NAVTEQ; how to
integrate demographic and business data stored in Oracle with maps; how
maps add business value to your Oracle applications; and how JSP and
SQL APIs from Oracle make creating powerful Web mapping applications
easy.
Microsoft and IDV Solutions at Work for the Enterprise (registration required)
Directions Media Webinar Series -
Sponsored by Microsoft
The
Virtual Earth platform - now Bing Maps for Enterprise - is a critical
component of the Microsoft geospatial story, enabling public sector
agencies to serve up data in a manner that allows users to better
visualize, understand and ultimately to act on them in a more timely
fashion, while simultaneously cutting costs and delivering clear value
to their constituencies. Visual Fusion from IDV Solutions combines with
Bing Maps, SharePoint and other Microsoft technologies to create a
visual mashup platform, empowering organizations to unite data from
otherwise incompatible sources - enterprise data stores, Web feeds,
spreadsheets and more - into rapidly-built, interactive and
collaborative applications that provide a single view of the data.
Business Case: Meeting Community Needs by Leveraging Enterprise GIS
Solutions (registration required)
Directions Media Webinar Series -
Sponsored by NAVTEQ
Learn how multiple departments in cities and
counties are providing more robust services with enterprise GIS - while
achieving a reduction in expenditures. NAVTEQ map data powers the ESRI solutions
that enhance infrastructure supervision, provide greater performance management
and generate efficiencies in work processes, including U. S. Census 2010
preparations. The city of Alpharetta, GA has enhanced its workflows by
integrating GIS software and NAVTEQ data to support its overall business
processes. Learn how municipalities can take advantage of existing training,
software and data to implement enterprise solutions.
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