October 21, 2009

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    All Things Location Wednesday | October 21, 2009

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Top Story

More about Licensing Commercial Data

A recent ADCi sponsored podcast in Directions Magazine titled, "ADCi Helps Make Commercial Street Data Manageable for Your Application," raised additional questions about quality, cost and complexity of data licensing. The emergence of OpenStreetMap and other local free data sources, prompted the question, "Why should I license commercial data when free data is available?" ADCi's president, Jim Reid, answers these questions and provides perspective. 


Navigation and Location US 2009, December 1-2, San Jose Unearth new ways to Monetize Navigation Based Services. Hear from Ford, Pioneer, Symbian, TomTom, Telenav, Nokia, Yelp and OSM.



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Intergraph's SDI/INSPIRE at the Dutch Kadaster
Intergraph Podcast Series
Spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) support the discovery, access and use of geospatial information in the decision-making process. Intergraph’s SDI application makes it easy for you to share data, removing barriers so you can communicate and collaborate more effectively. Join us for a podcast to learn how Dutch Kadaster benefits from our SDI application. Dutch Kadaster, the national land registry and mapping agency for the Netherlands, uses Intergraph’s SDI application to share an enormous amount of data among departments, with other agencies, and with citizens.

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.




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