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Tax GPS to Save GPS?:
There’s news bubbling up about a potential crisis in our GPS systems. According to a new GAO report, a bunch of the satellites up there guiding our cars, geo-shagging applications, and soldiers might ...
Spooks invest in forest inventory firm:
Dick Clark, State of Montana Chief Information Officer, to represent all 50 states on a national board on the use of digital geographic information tools and services for the nation:
State CIO Receives National Appointment
Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne, recently announced the appointment of Dick Clark, State of Montana Chief Information Officer http://itsd.mt.gov/default.mcpx ...
Inside Information - After mapping the great outdoors, GIS finds a new role to play indoors.:
Three students at Rogers High School in Spokane, Washington, were goofing off, chinning themselves on a water pipe. That is, until the pipe broke and water started gushing onto the gymnasium floor. ...
Immersive GIS to Engage Citizens Like Never Before:
California state government is gearing up for a renaissance of geospatial information systems--one in which citizens can see and touch the data relevant to critical questions they have to make such ...
State Of Montana Signs ESRI Enterprise License Agreement for Unlimited GIS Software for State's 26 Agencies:
The State of Montana has signed an enterprise license agreement (ELA) with ESRI http://www.esri.com that will provide unlimited quantities of ESRI geographic information system (GIS) software to the ...
Intermountain GIS Conference, 4/10, Missoula, Montana:
Business and Geographic Information Systems
Special Focus Session at the Intermountain GIS Conference in Missoula
April 10, 1:00pm-6:00pm, Holiday Inn Downtown (Free and open to the public)
The ...
Garmin Adds A Cell Phone To Its GPS Device:
The Nuvifone's built-in camera takes pictures that are automatically tagged with latitude and longitude.
First Apple came out with the iPhone, then Google (NSDQ: GOOG) announced its mobile-phone ...
You are here and Skyhook knows it without using GPS:
In the geek equivalent of a Super Bowl ad, Skyhook Wireless got a shoutout at the Macworld expo last week, putting the Boston technology firm in the same company as tech giants like Intel Corp. and Google ...
Web-Based Mapping Tools Help Governments Transform GIS into New Services:
Not so long ago, only a select group of users could take advantage of GIS tools and applications. The general public barely knew what GIS was, let alone knew how to use it. Today, the Web allows GIS ...
California Attacks Staff Shortage by Creating Database of Retirees Willing to Work:
California's retired state government employees have a new way to re-enter the work force, one that could make it easier for government offices to fill part-time vacancies left by the baby boomer ...
Navigation is just part of the story with feature-jammed new GPS devices:
They can plumb the Internet for the latest movie times, news headlines, stock figures and gas prices. They'll even help you skirt traffic, find a parking spot or make a phone call. Oh, and they'll navigate ...
New Montana State University GPS base station to aid students, researchers and community:
Montana State University students and researchers, surveyors and others requiring mapping accuracy within centimeters will have access to information from a new Global Positioning System base station ...
ISU professor leading effort to improve GPS precision:
Getting one's coordinates down to the centimeter is vital to farmers, policemen, firemen, land surveyors and more, said an Idaho State University professor who's leading a movement to install a real time ...
GIS system a treasure trove of Helena and Lewis and Clark County area maps:
An investment Helena and Lewis and Clark County officials began making years ago is paying off in a big way, and the future possibilities for the services provided by the joint city-county geographic ...
States try GPS to protect social workers:
To boost worker safety and efficiency, two states — Mississippi and Alabama — are equipping their frontline caseworkers with Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking devices. Imbedded in cell phones, ...
Engineer: GPS shoes make people findable:
Isaac Daniel calls the tiny Global Positioning System chip he's embedded into a line of sneakers "peace of mind." He wishes his 8-year-old son had been wearing them when he got a call from his school ...
High-Tech Fire Prevention Through GIS Analysis:
A vegetation management plan for Del Mar that targets specific areas for brush removal to mitigate fire exposure. Unlike Del Mar's previous broad prevention efforts, the new vegetation management plan ...
Guide Released to Using GIS in Emergency Management and Homeland Security:
Public Technology Institute (PTI) today released the second edition of Using GIS to Support Emergency Management and Homeland Security, a guidebook for public safety and information technology managers ...
"Satellite Imagery And Remote Sensing", 10/26, Helena :
Sibyl Govan, NRIS Projects Manager at the Montana State Library, and Dr. Catherine Maynard, State Geospatial Analyst for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, are scheduled to present, "MontanaView: ...
Space policy touts satellite imagery for homeland security:
The White House published an ambitious, new national space policy Oct. 6 that lays out goals for exploration and addresses the government’s need to enhance homeland security by collecting intelligence ...
Geo what?:
Colorado, a hub for the growing geospatial industry, is struggling to find trained workers. Officials hope a new website will help.
The geospatial industry might be one of the fastest-growing industries ...
‘911 where is your emergency’ Increasing cell phone use makes pinpointing locations difficult:
While cell phones may be a convenience to the general public, for emergency workers, they sometimes can make things complicated.
Butte-Silver Bow 911 is receiving more and more 911 calls from cell ...
The North Star, on Your Wrist:
MARK L. WITTEN studies the possible link between airborne metals and clusters of childhood leukemia cases in certain areas. Last year, as part of his research, he hung bits of lichen on about 60 mesquite ...
Ravalli County, Montana unveils new 3-D GIS computer program:
County residents can now get a three-dimensional bird's-eye view of the Bitterroot Valley with just the click of a button.
Last week county geographical-information-survey personnel unveiled a new ...
Glacier County EMS using hi-tech GPS Street Pilot to respond faster.:
For those of you who have put your GPS - global positioning system - to the test a time or two, you know its value. Instead of driving around aimlessly trying to find your destination, you simply ask ...
Great New GPS Gadgets:
If you don't know where you are and you don't know where you're going, then you are, as they say, lost.
When thrust into the unknown without navigational aid, travelers quickly fall into a state of ...
Aerial Mapping Takes Another Leap:
Low-lying Cessna 172s fly in grid patterns over major cities, capturing eagle-eye images of every square foot from just about every direction.
Instead of just the straight-down views that distant satellites ...
Turn Your Laptop Into a GPS:
Microsoft has given its MapPoint software quite an overhaul for the 2006 edition, adding full GPS support and enabling the importation of data for doing regional analysis.
The previous release ...
Free software turns laptops into GPS navigators.
Loki system melds global positioning, WiFi to find services:
A Boston company is giving away software that can turn nearly any laptop computer into a global positioning system, enabling users to find the nearest restaurant, hospital, or gas station at the touch ...
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