September 03, 2009

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    All Things Location Thursday | September 03, 2009

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Geoparsing Maps the Future of Text DocumentsGeoparsing Maps the Future of Text Documents

How do you create a unique geographically referenced feature from plain text? "Geoparsing offers the promise of modern geospatial alchemy ... the ability to turn text documents into geospatial databases," says author Douglas Caldwell. In this article, Caldwell discusses work done with the US Army Topographic Engineering Center (USATEC), Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) and Stottler Henke Associates under the US Army Small Business Innovative Research Program to develop a new and innovative approach to geoparsing.


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LETTERS


Eight Software Terms End Users Should Know

Many of readers had comments about the list.

"Really? End users should know what an API is? ..."
- Jeremy, flexdevelopers.com

" ... Educating the user on this industry jargon is just good business practice so they understand how programming components fit together to support their job function(s). ..."
- Chris, City of Novi

"... While developers deal with these terms for granted, many [business analysts] ignore it at their own peril, assuming its beyond their scope of work to understand such terms. ..."
- Sanjeev, Personal

"... Nice start - but there are also quite a few other terms that have entered the geospatial technology vocabulary that could be added to Adena's list - terms that geo-managers, procurement officers, and even developers need to understand. ..."
- Carl Reed, OGC

"... I'd Add GIU, GIS, Malware, Trojan (for software not hardware) and on line training."
- GISGuy, Digital Quest

Podcast: OGC Gets into Real Estate, DigitalGlobe Readies Bird for Daily Revisits

The OGC's Carl Reed chimed in.

"... The OGC also has a very active agreement with the building SMART alliance to collaborate on standards that deal with 3d aspects of the AEC workflow which can then be integrated with or used in conjunction with real property transaction workflows. ..."

 



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