Subject: ‘geocloud’
| November 29, 2011 Explaining Socium, a Cloud Based GIS Data Validation ServiceSoftwareAbbie Beckford, Customer Relations and Marketing Manager at Socium, shares insight about the new launch and what the benefits of this cloud based online data validation and management services are. Having confidence in spatial data is vital to organisations that rely on it for making business critical decisions and with increased demand for sharing data, the ... read more November 25, 2011Geosk: GIS Data as a Service (Daas)DataWhats is Geosk and what does it mean for GIS data delivery? Scott Robinson, Director, Global Data Products at Pitney Bowes Business Insight, explains what Geosk means for GIS Data as a Service (DaaS) and how cloud computing can be used to delivery GIS data online. read more...April 20, 2011Google Earth Builder Launches Into the GeoCloudGIS NewsGoogle makes its foray into the GeoCloud with Earth Builder. From Google’s LatLong blog: Google Earth Builder is an Enterprise mapping platform powered by Google’s cloud technology. We’ve built Google Earth Builder with the idea that any organization with their own mapping data – be it terabytes of imagery or just a few basemap layers – ... read more January 3, 2011Web-based GISInternet Mapping, Link LibraryAccess to spatial data as well as advanced mapping and spatial analysis over the Internet is becoming more common. Find information about map server technology and examples of online mapping. ArcGIS Server Documentation, tutorials, and tips and tricks for using ArcGIS Server from ESRI. With this previous generation online map serving technology, you can create simple, ... read more September 21, 2010 Future of GIS from GCNGIS NewsGovernment Computer News proclaims that the future of GIS is “crowds, clouds … and 4-D”. “It’s crowd and cloud,” said Mark Reichardt, president of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), a nonprofit standards organization. “We’re seeing this movement of geospatial and location-service functionality seamlessly into the business decision cycle and business tools and consumer services.” The development of ... read more November 4, 2009Cartography 2.0CartographyCartography 2.0 is a new site with the purpose of providing up-to-date information about web mapping technologies. The site authors seeks to provide an extensive knowledge base that will help answer the question, “What’s the important stuff I need to know about making great on-demand/interactive maps?” The site is edited by Dr. Mark Harrower, ... read more August 2, 2008What is the GeoCloud?GIS NewsA new geospatial term has been popping up on the Internet lately: the GeoCloud. Carl Reed, Chief Technology Officer in the July 2008 OGC newsletter (Chief Technology Officer’s Message: The Cloud) defines cloud computing: The term “cloud” comes from the fact that we have all used the cloud symbol to represent the internet/web. Cloud computing therefore refers to ... read more |
