This is a school trip no one is going to forget. Two bus loads of school kids ended up at an alleyway of the same name instead of a historic landmark because the bus driver had problems with their sat-nav. To compound the problem, “To make matters worse, the children were riding in two coaches [...]
Score one for old maps. An Australian author named Peter Trickett has discovered a map that pretty well proves Australia was discovered around 1520, which is way before James Cook stumbled upon the place. This was the most interesting quote, I thought: “It was even so accurate that I found I could draw in the [...]
Overview of Keynotes by Mark Driver of Gartner and Eddie Amos of Microsoft Click here to download the EDS2007 Keynote Sessions podcast
This week we talk to Meleia Egger and Stephen Aldrich about the session “Building Geography Graduate Student Community: Resources, Tools, and Strategies” Click here to download GSAG Podcast 4
Eddie Amos is back this year and talking about the interaction and relationships between Microsoft and ESRI. It is tough that it was at 6:00 because it is a good general presentation. Eddie’s presentations do not lend themselves to bullets so you will have to wait and see if ESRi posts it on EDN with [...]
Slashdot is reporting an interesting article that claims AOL and Skyhook Wireless have mapped “the majority of residences in the U.S. and Canada” along with their wireless service (or lack there of). It is supposedly part of their “Near Me” service which allows AOL IM users to see people physically located near themselves. I’m of [...]
While taking a break at the Dev Summit, I was catching up on tech news and noticed that yesterday AT&T launched their new GPS-based workforce management service, TeleNav Track, which is provided by TeleNav, but sold through AT&T. The service allows companies to track employee vehicle locations, mileage, send tasks and alerts to employees in [...]
Mark Driver of Gartner gave a discussion on Enterprise computing with discussion on .NET, Java, 64 bit, security, and market segmentation. Winners of the ArcGIS Server Code Challenge were announced as well this morning. Click more to see an abbreviated outline of the talk.
An overview of the plenary sessions from the ESRI Dev Summit 2007 on Tuesday Click to download the EDS2007 Plenary Session podcast
Much like Direction Media’s discussion on the Intergraph acquisition, they bring up quite a few ideas in their weekly podcast around the MapInfo acquisition. Definitely worth a listen.
