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Leading Airline Set to Transform Customer Experience With Powerful Travel Portal

whitepaper The new geospatial features in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database software will allow customers to extract detailed geographical information about their destination. From its inception, low-cost airline easyJet led the market through its use of the...

Tags: portals

[02 Apr 2008]

Place Matters: Geographically Enabling Government

whitepaper This paper will explore opportunities to leverage the ubiquity of the Internet, investment in Service-oriented Architecture and progress toward e-government transformation through the integration of enterprise level, server-based geospatial...

Tags: infrastructure management

[11 Mar 2008]

MSDN Webcast: Build Rich User Experiences With Virtual Earth 6.0 (Level 100)

whitepaper The Microsoft Virtual Earth 6.0 platform is an integrated set of services providing quality geospatial data, rich imagery, cutting-edge technology, and dependable performance that helps organizations visualize data and provide immersive user...

Tags: gps - gis

[14 Jan 2008]

Microsoft Webcast: See How Virtual Earth 6.0 Provides an Immersive Web Experience (Level 100)

whitepaper The Microsoft Virtual Earth platform is an integrated set of services providing quality geospatial data, rich imagery, cutting-edge technology, and dependable performance that helps organizations visualize data and provide immersive end-user...

Tags: gps - gis

[14 Jan 2008]

Bentley Leverages Parasolid to Free Architects' Creativity

whitepaper The company's comprehensive portfolio for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial vertical markets spans Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) and operations. Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the world...

Tags: groupware - workflow

[14 Jan 2008]

Q&A: Teradata CEO Mike Koehler

News We're investing in things like geospatial - the location data dimension. Since its split from NCR just a few weeks ago datawarehousing specialist Teradata has already made a splash with a strategic tie-up with business intelligence vendor SAS

Tags: datawarehousing, rfid, storage, teradata

[22 Oct 2007]

Location, location, location...

Comment How to source geospatial data  Choosing data and where to source it from can be challenging and time-consuming. Meanwhile business intelligence (BI) vendors such as Cognos, Business Objects and Information Builders offer some level of...

Tags: gps, mapping, lbs, rfid

[09 Oct 2007]

A Use Case Based Mobile Gi Service With Embedded Map Generalisation

whitepaper This technology has been implemented in a project referred to as GiMoDig (Geospatial infoMobility service by real-time Data-integration and generalisation). This paper describes the application of a mobile service that includes embedded map...

Tags: embedded, implemented, generalisation, examples

[21 Aug 2007]

A Distributed Architecture for WAP-Based Mobile GIS

whitepaper Using Java Servlet Engine technology and Geospatial information Web caching mechanism at the fat server side, the architecture based on J2EE is composed of four logic tiers: presentation tier, WAP service tier, application tier and data service tier.

Tags: wap, wap, tier, gis

[31 Jul 2007]

X3D Earth Web Viewing and Authoring Requirements

whitepaper The specific areas of focus in this research are the deployment of X3D Earth content within web browsers, developing high-performance and lightweight implementations for rendering and interaction, and providing affordable authoring solutions for...

Tags: programming languages, earth, high performance, integrating

[23 Jun 2007]

TerraService.NET: An Introduction to Web Services

whitepaper This paper explores the design and construction of a geospatial Internet web service application from the host web site perspective and from the perspective of an application using the web service. The TerraService.NET web service was added to the...

Tags: web services, perspective, concepts, distributed

[20 Jun 2007]

Revealed: US D-Day for Apple's iPhone

News Speaking at the Google Developer Day in London, Ed Parsons, geospatial technologist at Google, said: "Its good to see the big guys like Apple are using our APIs. The US launch of Apple's eagerly awaited iPhone will take place on 29 June 2007.

Tags: apple, iphone

[04 Jun 2007]

Photos: Google mashes up its developer day

Photo Edward Parsons, geospatial technologist at Google, said mash-ups have conventionally been good at pulling data together but Google wants to expand them so they do not just combine data but functionality as well.

Tags: google

[01 Jun 2007]

GIS Vehicle Tracking System

whitepaper Being a geospatial solution, GIS Vehicle Tracking System allows the customer to effectively use the synergy of geographically-referenced data with modern information technologies. Municipal government of Osnabruck, a city in Germany, required a...

Tags: gps - gis, tracking, vehicle, fleet

[03 May 2007]

IBM DB2 Geodetic Extender

whitepaper It has the capability to manage geospatial information referenced by latitude-longitude coordinates, support global spatial queries without the limitations inherent in map projections and help achieve high precision regardless of global location.

Tags: gps - gis, extender, location, limitations

[21 Apr 2007]

FAA Maps the Skies With Oracle

whitepaper The scalability and advanced spatial functions of Oracle's offerings will allow the FAA to more easily manage large volumes of geospatial data and produce charting that evolves with the changing terrain.

Tags: data visualization, aviation, charting, federal aviation administration

[16 Mar 2007]

FAA Maps the Skies With Oracle

whitepaper The scalability and advanced spatial functions of Oracle's offerings will allow the FAA to more easily manage large volumes of geospatial data and produce charting that evolves with the changing terrain.

Tags: data visualization, aviation, charting, federal aviation administration

[16 Mar 2007]

Information Services for Grid/Web Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Based Geospatial Applications

whitepaper The authors extend UDDI Information Model to support geospatial services. This paper presents an approach combining domain-specific registry capabilities of WRS and WS-I compatible UDDI Specifications.

Tags: metadata, uddi, workflow, virtual

[08 Mar 2007]

A Web Service Approach to Geographical Data Distribution Among Public Administrations

whitepaper In particular, the author base the proposed architecture both on the standardization effort carried out by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and on current state-of-the-art Web Service middleware infrastructure.

Tags: service oriented architecture, open geospatial consortium, geographical information systems, base

[08 Mar 2007]

Multidimensional Management of Geospatial Data Quality Information for Its Dynamic Use Within GIS

whitepaper Metadata should help users to assess the quality (fitness for use) of geospatial data, thus reducing the risk of data misuse. The research discussed in this paper aims to dynamically communicate quality information to the users in a rapid and...

Tags: geospatial data, reducing, limitations, aims

[05 Feb 2007]

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