ARD, Inc. (www.ardinc.com) has an immediate home office staff opening for a full-time GIS Specialist to join its growing Geospatial Technology Group. The group provides geospatial expertise in multiple international development projects. This position requires an individual who is technically capable and experienced in the application of GIS from mobile thru server configurations, understands that the implementation of GIS is dependent upon proactive outreach to clients and colleagues and is capable of working around the world in sometimes challenging conditions. See details
Archives for April 3, 2008
The latest from Shozu ?
I recently updated my Shozu to the latest release. I have to admit, I’m on the fence with this update. I’m constantly having issues getting uploads to go through (ie. they are all stalled in a queue). The navigation is way diff than the last release and as far as I can tell I can no longer get flickr comments sent to my device – a feature that was awesome! Contacts backup is no longer supported either. See www.shozu.com
Event of Interest – Explore the Mobile Future
Heads up on this one… Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley Conference to Explore the Mobile Future, April 22. Details – Acknowledging the rise of handheld mobile devices as a dominant computing platform both in the United States and abroad, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California at Berkeley have joined together to sponsor “The Mobile Future: Technology Revolutionizing Our Lives.” The one-day conference gathers leading academics, researchers, pundits and industry experts to discuss their visions of this mobile future, along with technology and business models for achieving them. The conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., April 22 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. For more details, please visit http://west.cmu.edu/sofcon08/13867052.html.
Event of interest – Explore the Mobile Future
Heads up on this one… Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley Conference to Explore the Mobile Future, April 22. Details – Acknowledging the rise of handheld mobile devices as a dominant computing platform both in the United States and abroad, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California at Berkeley have joined together to sponsor “The Mobile Future: Technology Revolutionizing Our Lives.” The one-day conference gathers leading academics, researchers, pundits and industry experts to discuss their visions of this mobile future, along with technology and business models for achieving them. The conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., April 22 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. For more details, please visit http://west.cmu.edu/sofcon08/13867052.html.
Navteq partners with uLocate
Wow, these guys don’t waste any time partnering up… although you could see this one coming a mile away! Navteq has just announced today that they have partnered up with uLocate (these guys developed the WHERE developer platform). Under the deal, uLocate will us NAVTEQ map data for applications running on the WHERE platform and Buddy Beacon products in the U.S. and Europe. FYI, 12 of the 15 finalists in the LBS challenge this week were powered by WHERE! IF your interested in dabbling with the WHERE platform you might take note of their developer contest… a good time to start creating your first mobile, location-aware app. See more
hold on before you buy that free data
A tip… if your considering buying free, public data from a commercial data whore like the datadepot or other… wait a minute! Do you really know what your getting? Also, before you buy, blast provide a comment or email me asking for a tip where you can get the same data for free… I’m glad to provide you with a tip
raster nautical charts overlaid on Google maps
This is cool from NOAA… view raster nautical charts overlaid on Google maps… nice! See http://demo.geogarage.com/noaa/