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Geoweb 3d has entered into the geospatial visualization space from roots in the gaming industry, providing impressive 3D visualization performance that takes full advantage of the processing power of today’s video cards. I visited the company within the NAVTEQ booth yesterday at the Esri International User Conference, and was impressed by their powerful processing and [...]
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In the executive session on Spatial Data Infrastructure at the Esri International User Conference there rose a discussion of what SDI means in reaction to Jack Dangermond’s comment that he’d love to move beyond discussion of SDI and rather call it National GIS. A spatial data infrastructure is a bit different than a National GIS [...]
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Jack Dangermond, president and founder of Esri, addressed the 14,000 attendees at the Esri International User Conference today, speaking about our rapidly changing world, and our need to deal with major change. These issues include such things as climate change, population, political and social conflict, loss of biodiversity, energy, water security, natural resources, human health, [...]
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Robert B. Murrett, former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and current professor at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, spoke to the dynamic changes that are creating greater demands for GIS as well as raising expectations at the Esri International User Conference today. The talk focused on the tremendous [...]
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Jack Dangermond, president and founder of Esri, gave the morning keynote at the Senior Executive Seminar at the 2011 Esri International User Conference in San Diego this morning. The topic matched the theme of this year’s conference, “Understanding Our World.” Today, GIS is changing our planet by helping us understand our world, rooted in the [...]
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It’s hard not to get excited about the genesis of earthmine‘s core data collection technology that comes from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and has been used on the Mars rovers to quickly map and navigate foreign terrain. The company has been aggressively partnering with mapping companies globally, collecting street-level 3D data worldwide, as well as [...]
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It’s not likely that we’ll return to the degree of competition in the GIS software space that marked the late 1980s through the late 1990s, when geospatial software platform companies and service providers proliferated. There has been a good deal of maturity in the market with fewer opportunities for newcomers, and a lot of consolidation [...]
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Jack Dangermond, founder and president of Esri, addressed the start of the company with the audience at the Esri Forestry GIS Solutions Conference today. He discussed that many of the company’s first customers were in the forestry industry with an open source stack of software, where they sold it, and people went off with the [...]
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Neal Ewald, vice president of California operation at Green Diamond Resources, “The California Redwood Company,” spoke to how far we have come in terms of environmental management in the forest industry at the Esri Forestry GIS Solutions Conference. The photo representation of clear cuts in redwood forests, with display of old caterpillar tractors cutting roads [...]
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