A GIS Visionary

jmantzke — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:43:40 -0700

This interview illustrates a next-gen innovative approach to business modeling that leverages GIS and enterprise system assets for improved enterprise search and decision support.

Scaling Solar-Powered Electricity

jmantzke — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:54:42 -0700

Solar energy from the perspective of efficient allocation of resources from a land, labor, and capital perspective, and looking at the solar energy ecosystem from energy production to distribution to the customer

Before and After the Storm

jmantzke — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:57:10 -0700

Location-aware social networks have a huge potential for enabling people in a community to help themselves during a crisis. Spatial analysis makes crowdsourced data actionable.

Agility and Innovation

jmantzke — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:55:23 -0700

This article outlines the NGA’s business case for moving towards an open source software technology strategy. The financial, technical, and operational reasons behind their policy change are discussed.

The Geo-Technology Marketer

Tyler Mohoric — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:52:51 -0700

This article outlines the importance of an internal communications position to leveraging an organization’s investments in location intelligence solutions.

Law, Regulations, and Best Practices of Location Data

jmantzke — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:23:17 -0700

We were pleased to speak with Kevin Pomfret of the Centre for Spatial Law and Policy on his perspective of the legal and policy landscape, the burning issues for providers and users of location, and the future of best practices and guidelines.

Market Connections

jmantzke — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:33:11 -0600

Industries are unique. They have their own culture, values, work flows, nuances, and requirements. They are tribes unto themselves with specific value chains, subject matter experts, certifications, regulations, and customer requirements and expectations. When companies within industry segments seek out

Replacing Geo-luck with Geo-advantage

jmantzke — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:35:19 -0600

Looking for a go-to reference book on geospatialtechnologies that is not overly techie? This is the book for you. Believe it or not, Dr. Bob Ryerson and Dr. Stan Aronoff, two PhDs with extensive experience in GIS and remote sensing have been able to distill complex geospatial terms, applications, and technologies into lay terms for everyone to understand.

Improving International Food Security

jmantzke — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:14:07 -0600

In 20 years of working in development programs in Africa and elsewhere, I and many others believe that information, infrastructure and inputs are weak links for most smallholder farmers. Many farmers, both female and male, are working 18-hour days with rudimentary tools for

Where Is Location Data?

jmantzke — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:34:24 -0600

Once you know what type of location data you need, the next questions are, does it exist in my company, and if so where is it? Therein lies the beginning of the search for who uses and manages such location data and what shape it is in. If the location data does exist,