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What’s Up with Facebook Places?

What’s Up with Facebook Places?

Facebook Places was launched last week in an effort to connect history with geography.  According to an article in CNET news, “Facebook Places will not just collect location check-ins, it’ll allow for messages and comments and pictures to be aggregated around them, creating a sort of ‘collective memory’ that places a layer of [...]

Better Ways to Design and Share Maps

Better Ways to Design and Share Maps

After attending this meeting, I felt compelled to go out and create maps to share with the world!  The FREE ESRI Seminar was held in Phoenix, AZ about three weeks ago, give or take two weeks...  The Seminar showed how ESRI can help create easier and faster maps using their tools and sharing information ("But it's mine!"-my son's and wife's [...]

Georgia State Park’s Geocaching Event!

Georgia State Park’s Geocaching Event!

We received this message from ga parks and would like to share it with you! I thought you’d like to know that Georgia State Parks is launching a statewide geocaching program called the Geo-Challenge and you and your readers are welcome to join in! Starting May 8th, you’ll find an official cache page for each Georgia State Park (all 42) [...]

10 Steps to Creating a Great Geocaching Event

10 Steps to Creating a Great Geocaching Event

Step 1 - - Check out www.geocaching.com to read about/sign up/ and find the geocaches currently in/near your geocaching event.  You should also read "Cache Listing Requirements and Guidelines." Step 2 - - Using a GPS find the geocaches near the location of your geocaching event.   You could use them in your event and/or make sure that you're [...]

Mobile ArcGIS Training Classroom Travels to Owensboro, KY

Mobile ArcGIS Training Classroom Travels to Owensboro, KY

Texas Gas is an interstate pipeline that moves natural gas from Gulf Coast and Fayetteville Shale supply areas to more distant on-system markets in the Midwest and to off-system markets in the Northeast via interconnections with third-party pipelines.  It originates in the Louisiana Gulf Coast area and in East Texas and runs north and east [...]

2010 Winter Olympics Luge Aerial Images

2010 Winter Olympics Luge Aerial Images

We thought you might be interested in a few different views of the luge track at Whistler Creekside.  Check out more luge photos and the latest info at http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-luge/

Mobile Classrooms

Mobile Classrooms

Do you have a group that needs to learn ArcGIS?  GEO-Jobe recently held an ArcGIS Desktop I training class for several airport personnel at Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport.  The training classes are instructed by GEO-Jobe's Senior VP, Neill Jobe.  GEO-Jobe offers ArcGIS Desktop I, ArcGIS Desktop II, and ArcGIS Desktop III training [...]

Significantly increase your accuracy without upgrading your hardware!

Significantly increase your accuracy without upgrading your hardware!

Trimble recently announced the new software releases of TerraSync, GPScorrect (w/ArcPad), Pathfinder Office, and GPS Analyst increase your accuracy regardless of the model year of your Trimble unit (Geo3 and forward). Whether you are a forester working under canopy or a city engineer working in an urban environment, the accuracy improvements will [...]

GEO-Jobe GIS Conducts ArcGIS Training at Gulfport-Biloxi, MS Airport

GEO-Jobe GIS Conducts ArcGIS Training at Gulfport-Biloxi, MS Airport

We are currently conducting ArcGIS Desktop I training in Gulfport, MS.  A total of 10 students from three departments (Planning, Operations and IT) within the Airport have attending the training and are familiarizing themselves with the ArcGIS Desktop Platform. Gulfport-Biloxi Airport is the most recent WD Schock airport client implementing [...]

GEO-Jobe heads back to Texas for the ACI-NA Conference

GEO-Jobe heads back to Texas for the ACI-NA Conference

GEO-Jobe and W.D. Shock Co. will be "Live in Austin" at the 18th Annual ACI-NA Conference and Exhibition in Texas. The event will be held at the Austin Convention Center from October 10th-14th. Find us fast!  Check out the exhibition layout by clicking on the conference logo.

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