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Water utilities to spend $2 billion on smart meters through 2020

U.S. water utilities will spend $2 billion on smart meters in infrastructure upgrades this year through 2020, almost matching all previous investment in the leak-finding devices, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Water utilities...

source: Bloomberg

Facebook, Waze and the falling cost of mapping technology

Facebook is reportedly in serious talks to buy social mapping app Waze for a whopping $1 billion in cash and stock, an acquisition that would underscore the growing importance of mapping and navigation functionality to the Web’s major players. A lot of digital...

source: Street Fight

Celebrating a true pioneer of computerized geography: Kenneth Appel

I recently read an interesting obituary in The Economist about Kenneth Appel. Perhaps I should've known about him, but I admit that I was unfamiliar with his name. But his famous accomplishment was a major one in the world of geotechnology...

source: Geoplace

What does Google's Timelapse effort say about the geospatial big data challenge?

Google gave the world a gift with the release of the global timelapse viewer that aggregates Landsat imagery from 1984 through 2012. While this effort isn't unique, it is high-profile with its exclusive media alliance with TIME...

source: Sensors & Systems

Smart grid challenges: Annual survey reveals a worried industry

Black & Veatch is out with its annual survey of utility executives. As you read through the release on Page 2 of this article, I predict you'll find few surprises. But even though you know most of this already, it's nice to see it confirmed...

source: Smart Grid News

White House moves to harden infrastructure against GPS disruption

System engineers across the country may soon be planning, in some cases perhaps for the first time, what they would do if they could not use the GPS service. The effort is part of an expanded White House initiative to protect the nation's...

source: Inside GNSS

Privatizing national mapping technology

Google has not only become the de facto mapping app, the de facto navigation app, the de facto remote...

source: Directions Magazine

The geography of hate maps geotagged hateful tweets

A few days ago I sent out a tweet about some Interesting research from Humboldt State University on the geography of hate and the Hate Map of racist and homophobic tweets — interesting to see that today the maps seems to be going viral on Twitter. The map from Humboldt...

source: GIS User

GISCI announces new executive director

The Board of Directors of the GIS Certification Institute is pleased to announce the hiring of Bill Hodge GISP as its executive director, effective May 1. Reporting directly to the board, Hodge will manage all day-to-day activities for the organization and direct its efforts...

source: GISCI

Congressman reintroduces bill to create geospatial tech agency

U.S. Representative Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., has reintroduced his "Map It Once, Use It Many Times" legislation intended to streamline federal bureaucracy dealing with map making by reforming, consolidating and reorganizing federal geospatial...

source: Spar Point Group

NASA's Android smartphone satellite snaps cheaper space photos

The NASA project dubbed "PhoneSat mission" sent a trio of satellite phones named Alexander, Graham and Bell into orbit aboard the Antares rocket that was launched from NASA's Wallops Island in Virginia, to see if an ordinary smartphones...

source: Gnews

Drone wars hit the states

Drones could soon be entering the airspace above you — and privacy-minded state lawmakers, banding together in an unusual left-right political alliance, are in a dogfight with law enforcement groups across the country as they move to put protections in place for those...

source: Politico

The challenge of BeiDou

GNSS is changing. The days of only American GPS satellites providing signals to the civilian population are gone as new constellations are launched. GLONASS was a slow starter, but is now well established, and its signal architecture is now commonly implemented in manufacturers'...

source: GPS World

Cisco ups the smart grid ante with new substation and security offerings

The Cisco GridBlocks Architecture continues to provide competitive value. Cisco spent a lot of time and money to construct a layered architecture that marries the communications network with the electric power network. Now they are...

source: Smart Grid News

10 things Esri is doing to 'move the needle' on GIS education

By Adena Schutzberg: Esri held its Northeast Education GIS Users Group Meeting on May 2 at the Esri Boston office. About 16 representatives from educational institutions attended. They were mostly from area colleges, though I saw at least...

source: Directions Magazine

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