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MetaCarta Public Sector User Group Meeting

Posted by Dave Smith On 9/30/2008 08:59:00 PM 0 comments

MetaCarta is holding a users group meeting next week, October 8th - from their site:

MetaCarta Public Sector User Group Meeting

How often can you hear key geospatial analysis findings from defense, intelligence, federal civilian, and industry analysts under one roof, in one day?

On Wednesday, October 8, 2008, MetaCarta invites you to join us for the 4th Annual MetaCarta Public Sector User Group Meeting as intelligence officers, industry analysts, and other senior executives share their geospatial technology experiences.

This is a perfect way to decompress from the Fiscal Year end, and come away with proven geospatial technology examples to employ within your own agency or organization.

Don't miss your chance to gain insight from industry experts including:

Jeff Vining, Research VP, Homeland Security and Law Enforcement, Gartner Research
Terry Busch, Senior Intelligence Officer, Defense Intelligence Agency
Dave Sonnen, Senior Consultant, Spatial Information Management, IDC Research
Dr. Jerry Johnston, Geospatial Information Officer, EPA / OEI

Collaborate with partners and colleagues to learn about best practices and take away critical knowledge about the latest uses and trends around geospatial intelligence, geosearch, and information retrieval. Hear about the “geoweb” and how MetaCarta exposes intelligence that would have been impossible to find any other way.

Highlights:

Share experiences and uses of MetaCarta technology
See the convergence of open source content and analysis
View in-depth customer presentations
See the updated 2008 / 2009 product roadmaps
Learn custom integration tips & tricks

http://www.metacarta.com/geo-overview.htm

Oracle Spatial User Conference

Posted by Dave Smith On 2/08/2008 07:24:00 AM 0 comments

Oracle Spatial User Conference
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Washington State Trade & Convention Center
Seattle, Washington USA

The agenda touches on some of my own hotbutton issues - integrating Oracle Spatial with Virtual Earth, Business Intelligence and other areas...

http://gita.org/events/annual/31/Oracle.asp

NeoGeo Wars...

Posted by Dave Smith On 12/05/2007 05:23:00 PM 0 comments

Seems a post on All Points Blog regarding NeoGeography has unleashed a flurry of posts relating to "paleo" versus neo and a whole lot of other issues.

I think I have a slightly different of a take on it... I view the two as sort of a Venn diagram, with each representing expanding spheres, with an equally expanding area of overlap and merging between them.

Note, my little 5-minute Visio diagram is not by any means intended to be comprehensive... But the fuzziness and overlap is fully intended.

I do not view them as "in competition" - each has its own stakeholders and requirements, and between the two there is a considerable area of commonality. The exciting thing about neogeography, however, is that it's about empowerment and putting tools and capabilities into the hands of the public, which previously would have been inaccessible. Additionally, it's about fusion and collaboration - which benefits both communities.

And along the whole NeoGeo theme, I will leave with this:

MetaCarta Public Sector Users Group

Posted by Dave Smith On 4/22/2007 08:28:00 AM 0 comments

MetaCarta will be having their third annual Public Sector Users Group meeting again in Tysons Corner on May 23rd.

Time and circumstances permitting, I am definitely going to try to attend again this year - Last year at their Users Group, we presented MetaCarta technology integrated with EPA mapping capabilities in EnviroMapper, specifically Window to My Environment.

It's always great to see how folks are geo-enabling and spatially mining their assets using technologies like MetaCarta. Last year, they also demonstrated quite a few other interesting emergent things from their labs - some of their innovations, such as OpenLayers and TileCache have been catching on like wildfire.

For details and registration info: http://www.metacarta.com/PublicSectorUG2007/ - and tell John Henry that I said hello...

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