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USGIF Awards Program Solicits Nominations

Published June 19, 2008 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion

The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) is now accepting nominations for the 2008 Awards Program. All submissions are due by 5 p.m. EST on Friday, August 15.

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Survey Perspectives – Late June 2008

Published June 17, 2008 By Eric Gakstatter Join the Discussion

Mobile phones are becoming powerful enough to rival some of the most powerful field data collection devices ever made. Our industry is catching the attention of some software developers who are writing software for smart phones that can be very productive for field personnel.

ITC Rules Against SiRF, for Broadcom

Published June 16, 2008 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion

Broadcom Corp. says the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) rejected claims by GPS chip maker SiRF Technology, which alleged that Global Locate infringed upon two of its patents. Furthermore, the ITC also found that SiRF's asserted claims on one of the patents at issue were invalid, according to Broadcom.

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TomTom – Tele Atlas Merger a Done Deal

Published June 6, 2008 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion

Following the announcement that Tele Atlas was making management changes in light of the pending merger, TomTom says that it has completed the merger of digital map supplier Tele Atlas.

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Opinions Survey

Survey Perspectives – Early June 2008

Published June 5, 2008 By Eric Gakstatter Join the Discussion

This may be the most important column I've ever written. It's certainly the most expensive. At $40,000 worth of equipment for this writer, multiplied by 17,346 readers, we're talking $694 million. And that's not nearly the full extent of industry impact; the Department of Commerce has some figures that I will quote later.

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Grid Cell Modeling: The Other GIS

Published June 1, 2008 By Art Kalinski Join the Discussion

Most real-world datasets are continuous, and therefore more accurately displayed in a grid cell-based GIS than as points, lines, or polygons. By Art Kalinski, GISP Back in the mid-1980s, when I established the U.S. Navy’s first GIS, we used mapping software from a company called National Planning Data Corporation (NPDC). In the process, I had […]

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Northrop Grumman Completes GPS OCX Integrated Baseline Review

Published May 28, 2008 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion

Northrop Grumman Corporation (Reston, Virginia) has completed the integrated baseline review for the U.S. Air Force Next-Generation Global Positioning System (GPS) Ground Control Segment (OCX), achieving two major milestone reviews within a matter of weeks, the company announced Tuesday.

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DigitalGlobe Expands Imagery Solutions for Oil and Gas

Published May 27, 2008 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion

DigitalGlobe has unveiled ImageConnect: Oil and Gas, an online imagery service with on-demand access via GIS and Web mapping services to areas of global oil and gas exploration.

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GE Oil & Gas PII Pipeline Solutions Releases PipeView SheetGen 5.0

Published May 19, 2008 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion

GE's PII Pipeline Solutions business has launched a new version of PipeView SheetGen, a software tool for generating pipeline alignment sheets directly from maintained data sources. SheetGen automatically generates alignment sheets directly from relational databases and geographic information systems.

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Opinions Survey

Survey Perspectives – Late May 2008

Published May 19, 2008 By Eric Gakstatter Join the Discussion

It's going to be a few years and then some before we can take advantage of L5. And when the time comes it may require an investment in new hardware, even if the receiver you have today claims to be compatible. Nevertheless, it will be a boon to the high-precision user.