September 16, 2009

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    All Things Location Wednesday | September 16, 2009

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Tough Talk on Selling in a Down Economy - Part IVTough Talk on Selling in a Down Economy - Part IV

Directions Media's Executive Advisor Mike Agron continues his series on partnerships with this fourth and last installment. Agron draws on his extensive experience working on both successful and failed partnerships to talk about the importance of the final two key success factors: having shared revenue objectives and shared relationship objectives.


Turn giant point cloud data sets into efficient MrSID files that are just 25 percent of the size of raw data yet retain every return.


Are you just part of the crowd? This session will look at the emerging demand for crowd-sourced data. Should your organization tap into this methodology or contribute to it? You'll hear from representative of Tele Atlas, Waze and INRIX... companies already tapping into new sources from our mobile society only at LI 2009.

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Reduced registration still available! But it went up another $100 Tuesday morning... The deadline to register for $599 is next Monday, Sept. 21. Use code d95491cf. This is the last week to register at a reduced rate. Register now!



POLL RESULTS


A total of 150 people responded to the most recent poll, and the results are mixed. Thirty-three percent of respondents believe that women are equally distributed in all types of jobs in geospatial, while another 41% don't see enough women in geospatial jobs to comment.


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Our next poll asks, "When was the last time you updated the data in your standalone satellite navigation/GPS device?" Vote today (left side of the home page)!



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ADCi Helps Make Commercial Street Data Manageable for Your Application
ADCi Geospatial Data Podcast
Do the massive commercial street datasets and complex licensing agreements seem unmanageable? Jim Reid, president of American Digital Cartography, Inc. (ADCi) discusses the ease and competitive advantage of using commercial street data provided by ADCi with Directions Media Editor in Chief Joe Francica. As a major distributor of both NAVTEQ and Tele Atlas data, ADCi has over 20 years experience in the mapping industry and has helped customers in every market successfully secure the correct data and license for their mapping application.

Increasing Health Market Awareness with ESRI GIS and Demographic Data
ESRI Podcast Series #38
LeeAnne Denney, CEO of Health InfoTechnics, discusses how her organization uses ESRI software and demographic data to centralize its clients health information and increase market intelligence.

Visualizing and Studying Disease through Maps
ESRI Podcast Series #37
Dr. Tom Koch, a clinical ethicist, gerontologist, professor, and ESRI Press book author of Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, discusses how we can use maps to think about virus and disease, specifically in the case of the H1N1 flu pandemic.



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