September 24, 2009

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    All Things Location Thursday | September 24, 2009

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Top Story

Clouds Forming #2: IntergraphClouds Forming #2: Intergraph's Mark Doherty on Geospatial Cloud Computing

In this podcast, Editor in Chief Joe Francica speaks with Mark Doherty, director of strategy for Intergraph to discuss cloud computing architecture and some of the possible business models such as software as a service (SaaS) and technology infrastructure such as service oriented architecture (SOA). Doherty also provides details on some of the solutions like GeoMedia and G/Technology already offered on Citrix's XenApp platform.

What is the market for location intelligent solutions? How big is the potential of location technology for enterprise computing? If you come for no other reason, come to LI to hear two of the leading researchers in this space, David Sonnen of IDC and Mark Smith of Ventana Research, square off in the one of a kind session only at LI 2009.

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LETTERS


New Product Assesses Imagery Data Accuracy

A question from a reader and a response from SIS.

"Any photogrammetrist worth his salt should be able to provide this information with every output. Most photogrammetric software (Socet Set, ERDAS Imagine) provides you with error margins for every point through the imagery, from which all this information can be extracted through least squares analysis. ..."
- Phil D, SKM

"Data vendors do provide statements such as "compiled to" meet general accuracy standards meaning that their methods have been demonstrated to meet required standards. A good question is 'Where are the results of these demonstrations and how are they communicated to the customer or user.' Have any of us in the profession seen published results that report in details these demonstrated results? ..."
- Chuck O'Hara, SIS

Does Traditional Market Research Miss the Real Numbers for Geospatial Technology Growth?

A reader wondered about the effects of open source and open standards on market sizing.

"... I'm seeing a big trend towards Open Source Spatial (disclosure: I'm helping to organise FOSS4G in Sydney next month). This doesn't appear to be picked up. ..."
- Bruce Bannerman



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