Archive for July 2010





Hexagon acquires Intergraph

Jul 7th, 2010 | By

Apparently Hexagon has been happy with their geospatial acquisitions over the last few years since the have announced their acquisition of Intergraph. You may recall that it hasn’t been too long since Intergraph went private (2006). Since then there has been a quiet but consistent movement in the company’s divisions and, of course, Intergraph has [...]



ArcGIS for iOS available

Jul 6th, 2010 | By

It seems that ESRI has made its way through the dreaded App Store approval process and ArcGIS for iOS is now available for both iPhone and iPad via the App Store. It is pretty much what we have been expecting based on the Dev Summit, Where 2.0 and other demos, but I have to say, [...]



ERDAS releases Apollo on the Cloud

Jul 6th, 2010 | By

ERDAS has entered the cloud service race with the announcement of Apollo on the Cloud. It is a hosted solution that provides access to Apollo Professional on SkyGone’s servers. We have talked to Mladen Stojic about Apollo on the podcast in the past which is one of ERDAS’s newer products that provides that layer of [...]



A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 259

Jul 5th, 2010 | By

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 259 July 5, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation on Geography and computer gaming Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes



avsp 5th Anniversary Live Show

Jul 5th, 2010 | By

We have finalized our line-up and plans for next week’s live show at the ESRI International User Conference. The show is in the book for 5:30PM on Wednesday (7/14) in room 30E of the San Diego Convention Center. There will be door prizes for those at the show including an iPod or 2 and gift [...]



Podcast moving to Monday through July

Jul 4th, 2010 | By

Just a heads up that we are moving the release of the podcast to Monday evenings through the rest of the month due to travel and general craziness. We should be back to the normal Sunday evening schedule in August for your Monday morning listening pleasure.



Walk the World

Jul 4th, 2010 | By

Oregon Scientific makes some really cool spatial gadgets including remote sensors, rain gauges, and what they call sports,fitness,and play. The one I thought was one of those, “why didn’t someone think of that before” gadgets is the Walk Around The World Pedometer that lets you walk your goal city and set your “route” with rewards [...]