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Various Geospatial Articles from Directions Mag
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In my attempts to make sure Slashgeo readers don't miss anything geospatially interesting out there, here's recent interesting Directions Mag articles. First, an article on participatory GIS and it's impact on development. Second, a two-parts article on enterprise location intelligence. And finally, an article on the new age of geospatial interoperability.
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Calendar: Left Geographies Conference
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This post on the Geowanking list ask interesting questions about the Left Geographies Conference (3- August - 01 septembre 2006), closely related to the Participatory Geographies Working Group. From the latter website: "Participatory geographers, therefore, often seek to work in bottom-up ways with the goal of actively engaging and benefiting groups outside academia so that traditional barriers between 'expert researcher' and 'researched community' are broken down. A key ethical tenet of their work might be not just to do no harm, but to do good (on participants' terms, rather than academics')." Go read the questions.
Application Domains: Open Forum on Participatory Geographic Information
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Giacomo writes "The Open Forum on Participatory Geographic Information Systems and Technologies is an informal network of development / GIS practitioners and researchers operating in developing countries, First Nations and elsewhere. Members share common interests in participatory spatial information and communication management, community mapping, participatory GIS practice and science, spatial thinking, memory, and language, cognitive maps, and more." Read more below from Giacomo. Readers can also remember this previous story.
OGC Launches Interoperability Institute
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All Points Blog underlines the launch of the OGC Interoperability Institute. From the website: " OGCII's objectives are:
* Examine current and prior research on geospatial topics to identify research shortfalls and gaps.
* Help form research collaboratives to accomplish this research through studies, testbeds, pilot initiatives, and infrastructure development.
* Facilitate and provide education and outreach so the research brings societal benefits and improvements in government services.
* Secure funding to support research to fill these gaps."
Application Domains: Location Intelligence and Business
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The GEOBlog (spanish) links to a Geospatial Solutions article on the location intelligence and business. From the article: "According to the results, which were released by MapInfo and BusinessWeek on Wednesday, 64 percent of business executives believe that location intelligence can improve business processes. [...] Approximately 80 percent of data that an organization uses to make business decisions has a location-based component. [...] According to a BusinessWeek white paper that was developed from the survey results, British Telecom will realize cost savings of $41 million over the next five years as a result of implementing a location-intelligence solution for its 17,000 field service engineers."
Application Domains: The State of Location Intelligence
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All Points Blog reports that Business Week and MapInfo tried to predict the future of Location Intelligence. The main result: new growth for the comming years. From the blog: "In another survey conducted by MapInfo among 1000 users of business intelligence (BI) solutions, 79% said they found location-based information that was integrated with their BI tools as "more than somewhat likely" to be valuable. However, 7% said LI was extremely valuable to them and that it could be used now."
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