Hoping History Doesn’t Repeat Itself

Now that the Tennessee Titans have reached the 9-0 mark, it’s only natural to dream of playoff match-ups, home field advantage, and maybe even contending in the biggest game of all. Success tends to breed an atmosphere of invincibility, and its sister: arrogance. As fallen humans, we tend not to learn from the mistakes of [...]

Leveraging Google Earth to Find Your Way in ArcMap

One difficult task for me in ArcMap is finding an intersection of two roads. Much of my work is in the state of New Jersey and often times I’m asked to map a new site location from as little as an address or intersection. The NJDOT has a terrific roads layer, however it is difficult [...]

2008 ESRI UC - Day 1

14,000 GIS users converge on San Diego, California’s Convention Center. This event is massive! One Plenary Session today led by the president of ESRI, Jack Dangermond. The topic of today’s talks - GIS: Geography in Action. Jack began this morning with a welcome and proceeded with some yearly awards. Next, began the showcase of technical [...]

More ESRI ELA info

ESRI has just come out with an easy to read brochure on the small government ELA program we’ve been writing about here. To see if this program is right for you, read the brochure.  Questions?  Give us a call.  615-883-0085.
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LizardTech releases GeoExpress 7 SDK for developers

This should be of interest to those of you that work with GeoExpress 7 in your applications. Just released free SDK from LizardTech for GeoExpress 7.
SEATTLE, Wash. - June 2, 2008 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced today the [...]

Using Satellite Imagery as Evidence

from the MSNBC website http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24306434

These two satellite images made available by DigitalGlobe show a site in Syria that the U.S. claims was a nuclear plant before and after a Sept. 6 Israeli airstrike. The left image is from Aug. 5, and the image at right is from Oct. 24. U.S. intelligence officials [...]

Vanderbilt upgrades Emergency Alert System

Vanderbilt University, a long time client of GEO-Jobe GIS, has recently upgraded its emergency alert system to a new system developed by Gallatin based W.A.R.N. (Wide Area Rapid Notification). The W.A.R.N. system provides multiple format rapid alerts to student and faculty in response to threats from tornados and other dangers via alerting mechanisms like [...]