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GIS/LBS Industry NewsMag #22
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Greetings again from NorthWest Florida. January came and went so fast that I couldn't get the latest installment of our monthly NewsMag until now... OOPS ;0)
I'm sure you'll find that it was worth the wait. Developing content for this monthly publication
is done by a combination of offering soltions and material that GeoCommunity vistors have requested, and summarizing
my own personal interests and research findings. This month I start with a look at how the leading names in the GIS industry have re-packaged themselves to appeal to the LBS market.
Other "must see" features in this edition include A review of Manifold GIS, a look at ARCIMS 3.0 from a developers perspective,
and a tutorial designed to walk users through the steps needed to import/view .E00 data into ArcView or GeoMedia.
We also use this opportunity to introduce you to a very nifty data viewing product with the ability to quickly
view and query more that 80 data formats. As always, please help us out by forwarding this newsletter to at least one friend or associate.
This edition has been sent to more than 18,000 people world-wide so we must be doing something right!
Please be sure to send your comments, suggestions, or suggestions to the editor (editor@geocomm.com). PS, If you plan on attending GITA next month in San Diego, be sure to
say hi if you see me run past you. Exhibitors, I'm always up for a party so be sure to include me on your party distribution list (editor@geocomm.com)
if you plan on hosting party or special event! -- Glenn Letham, editor
Features
The LBS Race Is On! -
LBS... It's becoming a widely recognized term that we've all become accustomed to seeing (and using).
We offer up our own definition and explanation of LBS and take a look at a number of traditional "GIS"
players and how they've re-packaged their content to focus on a "sexier" industry with hopes of grabbing
the lions share of the market.
ArcIMS 3.0 - An Application Developer's Perspective -
ArcIMS 3.0 from ESRI provides a fair
amount of "out of the box" functionality to allow internet neophytes to deploy their spatial data.
The latest production release became available in June of 2000, and many questions still exist about its
capabilities. The author has deployed two custom applications with this product for two different
organizations, and will use this paper as an opportunity to share his experiences and
observations. Thanks to Andrew Waxman, Chief Technology Officer, Telemorphic Inc., for this
contribution.
Viewing & Importing .E00 Data -
This may seem fairly introductory to many, however, there's a number of people out there struggling with
ARC/INFO .E00 data. We've provided this document to help users import E00 data into ArcView and GeoMedia. For those of you
wishing to simply "view" the data we introduce you to a nifty, free viewing program you can use to quickly and easily
view E00 and more than 80 other common data formats.
A GeoCommunity ArcView Freebie -
Jurgen Evert of Germany has passed on his latest ArcView extension to the GeoCommunity.
Titled "AV-Plus 2.1.2 The Project Manager", the author states that by using the
AV-Tools dialog in AV-Plus, scripts can be easily and permanently associated with buttons, icons, etc..., for
rapid loading in each new project. AV-Plus uses .dbf tables for both themes and scripts, so that these and
related settings are available for both new and long established projects. This also can facilitate the sharing of
scripts across a network. The freely downloadable extension is available in English and German.
Landsat Data Source -
Thanks to
Joseph Kerski of the USGS for providing the heads-up on this very cool data resource.
In the words of one of our long-time site visitors, here's "a whacking pant load of data" for ya!
The NASA Observatorium provides Landsat Thematic Mapper Data Sets from locations around the globe.
A number of individual band and .LAN files for the seven TM bands are available in both PC and Mac formats.
Select data products from Calgary, London, Amsterdam, Russia, Montana, just to name a few.
Top "News" Stories
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GIS Events and Education
GITA Conference XXIV -
GITA is fast approaching. This year the popular event will be taking place in San Diego
and yours truly will be there again (Yahoo... I love San Diego!). This Year's Theme is "2001: A Geospatial Odyssey".
New trends to be addressed at the 2001 conference include mobile technologies, system integration,
object-oriented programming, standards, methodologies and services, networks, communications, the Internet,
and much more. More than 22 Full & Half Day Seminars are designed to provide attendees with detailed
information focused on a specific topic of interest. Check out our section dedicated to providing
up-to-date conference news, features, and a heads up from exhibitors telling us what to expect.
Exhibitors, please be sure to forward us details of what we can expect from you this year.
Vote for your favorite
San Diego night spot here!
Classic GIS and Earth Science Texts -
Our most recent
addition to the growing collection of books featured in our
MarketPlace is a section dedicated to listing texts and classic
introductory books. Let us know if we've missed a good one!
Announcing the 6th International Conference on GeoComputation -
GeoComputation 2001 (24-26 September 2001) - Papers are invited on all aspects of research within the broad field of geo-spatial computation. This GeoComputation
Conference series brings together numerous scientists from different areas of research, who are interested in using
the latest computational tools and techniques, or who have implemented similar computation-based approaches
under alternative scenarios. GeoComputation is focussed on the research, development and application of spatial
information technologies to address social, economic and environmental problems at human and geographical
scales.
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GIS Edu News - Destination Lab (01.31.01)
The U.S. Space & Rocket Center® and Stanford Research
Institute, International (SRI) the world’s largest
independent, nonprofit R&D organization, have joined
together to develop Destination Lab™, an interactive
training experience for those who plan and manage our
resources, cities, states, and counties.
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GIS Edu News - WSI Corp (01.15.01)
WSI Corporation announced "WSI on Campus," an innovative program that
delivers state-of-the-art weather workstations for producing
broadcast quality weather shows to qualifying U.S. colleges
and universities for use in training their students in
broadcast meteorology.
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GIS Edu News - The WorldWatcher Curriculum Project at
Northwestern University is recruiting high
school science teachers!
Mobile Commerce Conference The business and technology of location-based m-commerce -
MC2 (February 12-13, 2001 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California) is designed to provide senior-level business and technology executives from wireless, e- commerce, leading-edge brick and mortar, advertising and VC industries with a platform to debate key mobile commerce industry issues. Speakers include industry-changing companies such as Yahoo!, Ericsson, Mobilocity, Sierra Wireless, Aether Systems, The WAP Group, Inktomi, SignalSoft and XYPoint. Don’t miss this opportunity to network with your colleagues and forge your company’s position in this new market!
On-line Events and Web Seminars -
You don't always have to fly accross the country, or the World, to attend a conference.
Online events and web seminars are becoming increasingly popular. Check out our latest addition to our popular
and growing Events directory. Companies planning to host online seminars, product demos, and conferences
are encouraged to contact editor@geocomm.com to arrange to have events posted here.
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GeoCommunity Promotions
GISToolKit... Spring 2001 Edition Coming Soon! -
More than 5,000 individuals have now received their free copy of the 2000 GISToolkit. Now you can pre-register
to receive the Spring 2001 edition. This free CD has product demos, freebies, and evals all conveniently bundled on one disk.
Software vendors, product developers, and data providers are encouraged to contact
toolkit@geocomm.com if you are interested in having your product demo distributed on the CD.
GeoCommunity Bookstore
Classic texts, GPS, CAD, "Inside" series, ESRI press, and much more.
Canada Data Bundle -
The GeoCommunity is offering a special "Canada" data bundle for a limited time. Now you can purchase the Canada VMAP (ARC E00 format), Canada 3D, and the global
place names database of 5 million features as a bundled product.
The data is available online for a nominal CD Processing fee of $79.95 + shipping
Global Data Bundle -
This data bundle includes the following data products:
This DTED 30 Arc Second Terrain Data Global Digital Terrain Elevation Data set
World place name database - more than 5,000,000 features
Digital Chart of The World (DCW)
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