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Nashville Flood

Nashville Flood

Recent infrared aerial photographs of the Nashville area flooding were taken by TN Department of Transportation.  Generally TDOT charges for their imagery, however, according to folks at TDOT, these photos may soon become available to state and local governments for free. TDOT flew Monday, May 3rd - Saturday, May 7th over major flood [...]

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) [...]

Emotional Maps

Emotional Maps

Just when you thought "emo" couldn't get any more, well, "emo"... Since 2004, over 2000 people from 25 different cities around the world have participated in Christian Nold's Bio Mapping experiment.  Using a GPS and GRS (Galvanic Skin Response) device (invented by Nold), Nold maps variant emotional responses of people as they travel through [...]

Google Maps Added Earth View

Google Maps Added Earth View

Google added the Google Earth plugin to their Google Maps site.  If you haven't already downloaded the plugin, you can now do so through Google Maps.  

How to Increase your Data Collection Production Through Internal Competition

How to Increase your Data Collection Production Through Internal Competition

Our Crew Chief, Mark Young II, collects manhole data with the Town of Smyrna, TN.  He is usually paired with one of three (water and sewer) department staff and averages about 50 manholes a day.  While collecting manhole data with Freddy Hedgepath, they hit a wave of momentum and collected data for 96 manholes before having to retire early for [...]

ESRI Development Summit 2010 Summary

ESRI Development Summit 2010 Summary

So I get to write a blog entry about the 2010 ESRI Development Summit in Palm Springs California!  Do I tell you about the 86 degree sunshine, the college kids on spring break, the street party, the beautiful women by the pool (gotcha!), the breath taking mountains or the serene desert? Okay!  Well, no, I did not get to see any of that. [...]

City of Jackson TN goes live with Geopowered

City of Jackson TN goes live with Geopowered

The City of Jackson, TN is the latest GEO-Jobe GIS Geopowered site to go live.  This new site is part of a bigger project GEO-Jobe is involved in with Jackson to develop an Enterprise GIS.  Utilizing ESRI ArcGIS server technology, several city agencies, including planning and police, will begin sharing data between eachother and with Madison [...]

Follow up from the Trimble Roadshow

Follow up from the Trimble Roadshow

We ended our weeklong trip across Tennessee in Jackson last Friday.  It seemed like as the week progressed, our demo got a little better.  We'll be doing them again down the road so keep you eyes on the lookout. Here are some pictures from the week.  I think I need a new camera phone.  These pictures are not [...]

GIS Day at MAGIC conference in Germantown

GIS Day at MAGIC conference in Germantown

The annual MAGIC GIS Day conference has been a great success.  Here, yours truly and Mike Brewer from Poplar Grove Utility District (one of our clients) show off the GEO-Jobe booth.  Richard Duncan presented our Field to Finish solution yesterday before a packed crowd at the Germantown Athletic Club. This year GEO-Jobe is also showing off the [...]

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