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A Few Directions Mag Articles

posted by Satri on Wednesday January 31, @12:34PM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the read-all-the-news dept.

Having finally catched up the latest geonews, here's a few interesting recent Directions Mag articles. There's an article on why location-based services applications fail. Then another on the future of the USGS for 2007. Another on intelligent reserve geocoding and location-based services and a last one on a OGC demonstration of sensor web decision support services.

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• Reverse Address Geocoding With Google Maps

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  by Satri (3) on Friday February 02, @01:00PM (#1221)
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  A recent blog entry [blogspot.com] on this issue.