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Geographic information system (GIS) industry leader ESRI officially opened the doors to its Sacramento, California, satellite office on January 15, 2008. The new location will allow ESRI to better support its users in central and northern California and Nevada and will provide a convenient site for agencies, to spend time learning how to leverage GIS.
“As ESRI and the GIS community grow, the Sacramento satellite office gives us the ability to better connect with our users in the region and provide GIS training, support, and services,” says Nate Johnson, ESRI regional manager for California, Nevada, and Hawaii. “Its location near the state capitol will provide government and private agencies using ESRI software with the opportunity to work in close proximity with our GIS experts. Our new training lab will offer ESRI’s complete curriculum of instructor-led classes, and the new enterprise lab will provide a place for GIS knowledge to be shared among different user groups.”
Sacramento joins several other major U.S. cities such as Washington, D.C.; Boston; Minneapolis; and Denver with ESRI office locations where staff and GIS software users can attend technical workshops and seminars, host meetings and project briefings, and participate in additional ESRI-authorized training.
Adds ESRI president Jack Dangermond, “GIS provides a geographic approach to doing business. Its ability to share, store, and visualize information gives utility companies; private industry; and federal, state, and local governments the power to streamline workflows, improve decision making, reduce costs, and better model and communicate strategies. We believe that the Sacramento satellite office will help ESRI serve its users in the area to ensure that their businesses remain productive, effective, and profitable.”
The ESRI Sacramento satellite office is located at 1600 K Street, Suite 4C, Sacramento, CA 95814 tel.: 916-448-2412; fax: 909-307-3025.
first published week of: 07/26/2021
Here’s an experiment: The next time you head out to lunch, compare the restaurant’s icon on your mapping application to the location on the door. The odds are that the icon will be at least 20 meters away from the door itself.
For a consumer, that’s not going to stop them from finding lunch. But that margin of error presents a major hurdle for marketers as they look to use location data to not only target ads, but measure their effectiveness as well. The algorithms which marketers use to analyze location cannot tell whether we intended to go to a McDonald’s on the corner or the gym next door.
The good news is that the technology, which smartphones use to determine where we are in the real world, is improving. Here are four trends that will help push location-based services forward in 2015.
1. Smartphones will start to understand places — not just location
In 2014, Apple introduced Visit Monitoring, a feature that allows developers to identify common places in a user’s life and collect more granular information. The feature creates an alternative for developers who want to access a user’s location on a more passive basis. The concept of the passive check-in offers a solution to the problem that geo-fencing was only able to provide approximations for: Namely, where do my consumers go? Developers are still in the early days of figuring out how well passive visit detection works and how ad networks can take advantage of this ‘visit’ point. Mobile advertising networks have struggled to build meaningful attribution models using the local data available on the market today. But the introduction of the so-called “visit data” could change that in coming years.
2. Improved consumer data will put pressure on business POI providers
Several companies have launched SDKs enabling two-to-five-meter location resolution either via Bluetooth or refined GPS. Marketers will use those improved data to better measure whether consumers who saw ads eventually ended up in stores. The shift from a navigation to attribution use case will put pressure on the data companies who sell point-of-interest data. These companies will need to match the accuracy of the location signal to meet the market demand for attributing in-store visits to those they’ve advertised to; proximity will no longer be good enough
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first published week of: 07/12/2021
The precise information you need, delivered exactly when and where you need it. Personalized engagement and experiences. Easy step-by-step navigation. These are just some of the things you get with indoor location-based services.
Similar functions have existed outdoors for more than a decade thanks to GPS and apps like Google Maps. However, indoor location services have seen much slower adoption. But that’s started to change, and in 2017 we’ll see it shift into the mainstream. Indoor location’s time has finally come, and here’s why:
The first catalyst for this shift is changes in our smartphones. Apple recently introduced iBeacon and Google launched Eddystone, both of which make Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) a standard on virtually every smart device. This means that every smartphone is now “location aware,” allowing stores, hospitals, schools, corporations, museums and more to deliver highly personalized services to anyone who walks in their doors.
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first published week of: 06/14/2021
LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced the launch of GeoExpress 7, the premier application for quickly and easily compressing and manipulating complex geospatial imagery.
... With a powerful set of tools for reprojecting, color balancing, mosaicking, cropping and more, LizardTech’s GeoExpress 7 is the industry’s first choice for manipulating geospatial imagery and encoding it to industry standard compression formats. Now GeoExpress streamlines workflows even more by allowing encoding and publishing of imagery directly to LizardTech Express Server in one simple operation. Users can view their imagery in WMS applications or ArcIMS, or make their imagery available in Web applications - all without having to learn any command line applications or edit XML documents. This results in increased productivity by reducing the effort and time it takes to distribute imagery to decision makers.
The latest addition to the ever-growing list of tools for image manipulation in GeoExpress 7 is the new despeckling tool. Despeckling enables users to clean up edge artifacts making their images look better. Additionally, the well-received floating license capability from GeoExpress 6 has been updated to offer “commuter” functionality, which increases productivity by allowing users to continue working when they are on the road and disconnected from the network. IT administrators have the freedom to use one common licensing standard on their network, simplifying their administration tasks, while giving end users access to the image tools they need, no matter where in the world they are located.
first published week of: 03/29/2021
An Open Records panel facilitated by Boundary Solutions, Inc. at the IAAO ’08 National Conference responded to a question posed by the IAAO conference committee: “Does unconstrained sharing of digital cadastral databases stimulate the economy?” Based on 440 county annual report records, BSI reported that the average total property valuation of all residential and nonresidential parcels in an open record county (sharing their digital parcel map at <$250) grew substantially faster than the average closed record county from 2001 to 2006. These findings caused enough interest that IAAO requested that the proceedings be expanded into an article for IAAO’s organizational magazine, FAIR & Equitable.
To prepare for this article, BSI expanded the annual report records from 440 to 2,784 provided by the individual revenue departments of 46 states; nearly 100% of the total 3,140 USA county records. The resulting National County Annual Reports Database (NCARD) may be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet, free of charge.
first published week of: 04/05/2021
1:125,000 Scale Global Seamless Map Data Set Makes Debut At 2012 Esri Users Conference; First To Offer Consistent, Worldwide Coverage.
“DAE 2012 provides an unprecedented level of detail and consistency in worldwide map data, which is now being made available for the first time to professional, enterprise and consumer customers,” said John Auble, DeLorme vice president, data products and HA/DR programs. “It is fully compatible with all Esri platforms and solutions, including desktop, mobile and web-based applications.”
DAE 2012 is a global data set that provides a dense seamless topographical map of the world. It contains more than:
first published week of: 05/24/2021