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Archives for June 24, 2010

iPhone 4 hits the shelves – did you lineup for yours! More specs and notes

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Yes indeed… are you in line right now for your iPhone 4… I bet a few of you are!! Recall, iPhone 4 (with iOS4)  features Video Calling, Retina Display, 5 Megapixel Camera, HD Video Recording and get this… finally, support for multi-tasking!! Other noteworthy features that may interest you:

In addition, iPhone 4 features a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, HD video recording, Apple’s A4 processor, a 3-axis gyro and up to 40 percent longer talk time—in a beautiful all-new design of glass and stainless steel that is the thinnest smartphone in the world. iPhone 4 comes with iOS 4, the newest version of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, which includes over 100 new features and 1500 new APIs for developers. iOS 4 features Multitasking, Folders, enhanced Mail, deeper Enterprise support and Apple’s new iAd mobile advertising platform.

More about iOS4:

With over 100 new features, it includes Multitasking, Folders, enhanced Mail, deeper Enterprise support and Apple’s new iAd mobile advertising platform. With Multitasking, users can now instantly switch between any of their apps while preserving battery life. With Folders, users can easily organize their apps into collections by simply dragging one app on top of another. A folder is automatically created and named based on the category of apps selected. Users can change the name of any folder at any time. In addition, users can now customize their lock and home screens with an array of supplied wallpapers or with any of the photos on their phone.

How to get it? For current iPhone owners that are upgrade elligible, iPhone 4 will be available in the US, UK, France, Germany and Japan on June 24, starting in the US at just $199 for qualified buyers with a two year contract.

See more info HERE or see http://www.apple.com/

Reminder – OpenStreetMap conference, State of the Map (SOTM)

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This from the OSM gang… A reminder that the non-profit OpenStreetMap conference, State of the Map is soon to take place in Girona, Spain between July 9-11. This global summit includes OSM members, community mappers, figureheads of the GIS industry and the foundation team behind the OSM project, it’s the fourth conference to date and builds on the success of last year’s event held in Amsterdam – More about the event here: http://stateofthemap.org/about/.

#ESRIUC Attendee Spotlight – @LearonDalby Arkansas GIO Program Manager – It’s The People!

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Learon Dalby is the GIS Program Manager, Arkansas Geographic Information Office – http://www.gis.state.ar.us/. I recently asked Learon if he’d be interested in sharing with me some things that he likes about the annual International Esri User Conference… read on for a fine response!

From Learon… Clint Brown provided a great list of 10 Cool things To Do at the 2010 ESRIUC. This will be my third ESRIUC to attend. I attend for one reason which is a combination of Clint’s number seven and ten; PEOPLE. The ESRIUC brings together a lot of geospatial minded people. There aren’t many other times when you can strike up a conversation with nearly anyone in San Diego and not have to explain GIS. So while I am at the conference I search out people that are pushing the limits of geotechnologies. I enjoy visiting with individuals that see things through a set of lenses other than mine. Last year I had the opportunity to meet Mark Greninger, Los Angeles County GIS Coordinator (http://gis.lacounty.gov/eGIS/). Mark was testing the use of WordPress to manage the county address file. Sounds pretty far outside the box and it is exactly the kind of thing I am looking for when meeting new colleagues and friends. Everyone attends the ESRIUC for various reasons. Mine have far less to do with the technology and a lot more to do with the people – technology pushers, outside the box thinkers. I really enjoy swapping new ideas with people that are looking for new ways to solve relatively old problems. The only thing missing at the conference is a white-board room. I feel sure @martenhogeweg would agree with me in this respect.

My response… Thanks to Learon for sharing his thoughts and I can’t help but totally agree with him! I’ve gotten to know Learon quite well over the past year or two thanks to Twitter and look forward to meeting up face to face this year in San Diego. I’m sure that once again, this year at the start of the plenary session Jack Dangermond will ask us all to take a moment to meet someone next to us and encourage us all to continue meeting people throughout the week… it seems Jack and Learon are on the same page there! I’m sure a number of you will be fortunate enough to strike up a conversation with Learon this week! If not you can connect with him on Twitter @LearonDalby

What gets you going about the ESRIUC?? Feel free to ping Glenn (glenn at gisuser.com) with your thoughts…

Avenza to show off MAPublisher with ESRI geodatabase support and Geospatial PDF reader for iPad and iPhone at #ESRIUC

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Another familiar site you’ll find this year on the exhibition hall floor at the #ESRIUC will be Ted Florence and his team from Avenza Systems Inc. (Booth #1615). Ted and crew will be showing off their flagship solutions, MAPublisher (transforms Adober Illustrator into powerful map making software – FYI, they have ESRI geodatabase support within MAPublisher that enables direct connection and import from geodatabases) and Geographic Imager (transforms Adobe Photoshop into a powerful spatial imagery editing tool). I’m looking forward to see a demo of their Geospatial PDF reader for iPad and iPhone

Some of the highlights visitors that meet up with the Avenza Team will learn about include the following:

  • Geospatial PDF creation from Adobe Creative Suite
  • Geospatial PDF reader for iPad and iPhone
  • DEM Colourization
  • WFS & WMS support
  • Geodatabases

See more info HERE

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