Archive for June 23rd, 2006




GeoPortail apparently a work in progress

Jun 23rd, 2006 | By Sue

I checked out the newly launched French GeoPortail, which made the news at CNN today, and was mentioned on OgleEarth and Anything Geospatial. It is at this point just a 2D map viewer and even that is not working well (at least for me). While my French is pretty rusty, I found a little timeline [...]

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ArcPad and mobile handhelds for 2010 US Census field data collection

Jun 23rd, 2006 | By Sue

A press release today announced that ESRI’s ArcPad will be used as part of the Field Data Collection Automation (FDCA) project for the upcoming 2010 census, and Harris Corporation has won the $600 million, 5-year contract to develop and implement an automated field data collection system. I know there have been a number of recent [...]

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MapInfo 8.5

Jun 23rd, 2006 | By Jesse

I just realized that I forgot to blog the release of MapInfo 8.5 when I first saw it. The 8.5 release seems to have a quite a few updates, nothing I would consider groundbreaking, but many of which look like the are important to remain competitive. They seem to be providing new webservices [...]

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