Big change is coming to the GIS/Geospatial industry. Walk through the crowded halls of any of the GIS, GeoWeb, or Gov 2.0 conferences around the country right now and you will see it. There is a groundswell of . . .

Imagery—photos taken from satellites and airplanes—is now ubiquitously available through a number of Internet, desktop, and mobile applications. As a result, imagery is becoming a defacto communication tool as it finds its way into all sorts of applications and reports, from navigation to title insurance to site selection to market research.

In 2003, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku declared that time travel, “…once confined to fantasy and science fiction… is now simply an engineering problem.” Today, from the standpoint of operations improvement and top-line growth, it’s an engineering problem that’s been solved.

Key performance indicators (KPIs) have become woven into the fabric of most businesses and pushed into the psyches of our organizations. In an effort to better understand and manage our businesses …

Hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, earthquakes, floods and terrorism – the catastrophic disasters that remind us of the fragility of life and the uncertainty of investments in the future are subject to sophisticated risk modeling. Risk management is both an actuarial and a spatial problem, and the ability to diversify risk is critical to a healthy insurance industry.

For over two decades, 3D visualization technology has teased engineers, urban designers, architects and their customers by promising one day to put all of the asset information for vast geographic areas into a single digital environment that could be . . .

This summit is an opportunity for the cable companies to share their experiences, best practices, and lessons learned on their GIS initiatives and in particular focus on the business objectives, requirements, and needs with geospatial providers that have been serving the cable industry in the US and Canada.

The GeoWeb 2009 Conference in Vancouver offers a new GeoWeb101 workshop by these visionaries. Following are their definitions of the GeoWeb

As indicated by this magazine, location-based information has quickly made its way into just about every industry out there. For example, marketers are using it to send special deals to consumers as they pass by their favorite stores, emergency personnel rely on it to save lives, and engineers require it to build our world’s infrastructure.