So what do Broadswords, evil temptresses, and GIS have in common? The Governator answers…
Sifting through the transcript of  governor Schwarzenegger’s May keynote address at the Conference on California’s Future:
“… we are moving full steam ahead. A perfect example is, for instance, GIS. GIS is a form of digital mapping technology, kind of like Google Earth [...]

The GIS old guard gave a collective shudder this morning, as Google inched one step closer towards traditional GIS capabilities: introducing Google Map Maker.  While some folks hardly looked up from their koolaid, i decided to set mine down and kick the tires a bit. As someone who’s run the gauntlet of clunky feature editing [...]

Plazes posted some big news this morning,  announcing an agreement for their acquisition by Nokia .

Based in Berlin, Plazes started out strong in 2005 as an early LBS social networking concept. While European adoption was far greater than US audiences, the general spotlight on it’s value seems to have shifted over the last year to [...]

Thanks to Damian Spain’s recent photos of the Google StreetView car getting pulled over, we’ve all had a good laugh at some poor driver’s expense. But, taking a closer look at the sensor array mounted on the vehicle we also gain some new insight into the evolving immersive video capture method Google is using.

Notice the [...]

As Google I/O wrapped up this evening, there were a couple major items of interest bouncing off the walls of the geospatial community. News of GE browser plugin, new API’s , and BirdEye discussions were all big items. One of the items that interested me most was the amazing Android demo during the plenary, which [...]