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All Things Location	Wednesday \| October 14, 2009

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Letter from the Low Lands: The end of geo-innovation in the Netherlands

In a new "Letter from the Low Lands" column, Jan Willem van Eck, president of Geo-Informatie Nederland, the Dutch society for geo-professionals, will bring us his perspective from the Netherlands. This first article addresses the end of geo-innovation in the Netherlands.

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.

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ArcGIS Data Appliance Delivers Maps and Tasks Behind the Firewall
ESRI Podcast Series #40
Christophe Charpentier, ArcGIS Content Product Manager for ESRI, discusses ArcGIS Data Appliance, a preconfigured network storage device that offers users secure access to ready-to-use imagery, street and other basemaps, as well as geocoding and routing functionality.

GIS for Federal Office Building Management
ESRI Podcast Series #39
John Young, Business Lead for Federal Civilian Facilities Management at ESRI, details how GIS helps real estate portfolio managers determine the location of office space by giving them a geographic perspective.

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.

All Points Blog

Bentley Now #1 in GIS/AEC Software

Bentley Systems Signs Technology Agreement to Use LiDAR Data

Bentley Systems Emphasizes New Licensing Options and Interoperability

Nobel Winning Economist Used Satellite Imagery

A satellite orbiting the earth could someday prevent an auto accident...

All of yesterday's All Points Blog posts

Press Releases

Bentley Systems Marks 25 Years of Sustaining Infrastructure at Be Inspired: Infrastructure Best Practices Symposium and Awards

Pictometry International Corp. Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Geospan Corporation

Several MD Counties Join the Maryland TIER II MANAGER Enterprise (1, 2, 3)

Geosemble to Demonstrate GeoXray Satellite Image Data Integrator at GEOINT 2009

Bluesky 3D Computer Model Maps UK Industrial Re-Development

GeoFields Announces RiskFrame DIMP Modeler at ESRI Electric and Gas User Group Conference

ESRI Health GIS Conference Participants Present Solutions for Improving Human Health and Well-Being

NAVTEQ Selected by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Maine Governor Baldacci Announces Creation of Statewide Map to Support Broadband Development

SimActive Announces Major Sale in Europe

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New Jobs

GIS Officer - Cartographer
Australia, Queensland

GIS Contractor - Adelaide
Australia, South Australia

Sr Technical Product Manager
United States of America, CO, Denver

Senior GIS Applications Programmer
United States of America, TN, Nashville

Sales/Business Development Consultant
United States of America, AZ, Tempe

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ADSK - NMS	$25.09	0.07 0.28%
Autodesk, Inc.

DGI - NYQ	$23.97	0.54 2.30%
DIGITALGLOBE, INC

DSGX - NMS	$5.65	0.02 0.36%
The Descartes Systems Group Inc

GEOY - NGM	$26.99	0.15 0.56%
GeoEye, Inc.

GRMN - NMS	$38.42	0.01 0.03%
Garmin Ltd.

MSFT - NMS	$25.81	0.09 0.35%
Microsoft Corporation

ORCL - NMS	$20.91	0.19 0.92%
Oracle Corporation

PBI - NYQ	$25.26	0.02 0.08%
PITNEY BOWES INC

TRMB - NMS	$22.04	0.23 1.05%
Trimble Navigation Limited

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