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As 2017 comes to a close, GITA would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of GITA News Hub a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 4.
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CNBC
From Aug. 3:
Apple is suddenly looking to hire a bunch of map tech experts.
More than 70 job listings went live in the past month on the company's site relating to its maps team, or requiring skills around things like: "geospatial information services," "navigational aids" and "fleet management."
That's a lot of hiring around one discipline even for a juggernaut like Apple.
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IoT Agenda
From Jan. 19:
Geospatial information — an amalgam of data on an object's location and attributes — is gaining increased attention beyond its traditional home in geographic information systems communities. When integrated with active devices and sensors, geospatial technologies are transforming the way people work, move, live and — thanks to geocaching, fitness apps and Pokémon Go — play.
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The Diplomat
From May 4:
Over the past five years, North Korea has constructed several military facilities on small islands surrounding the city of Sohae, a leading missile development and testing site. In some cases, the islands themselves were constructed; what amounted to little more than a pile of sand 20 years ago is a burgeoning military facility today. Sohae, a sizeable metropolis on the country's west coast, has hosted many critical missile tests.
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State Scoop
From Sept. 1:
The future of the geospatial information systems industry rests on a controversial bill currently sitting in the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
The Geospatial Data Act of 2017, introduced in May by Sens. Orrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah, and Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, has bipartisan support for its promise to deliver support for a robust National Spatial Data Infrastructure.
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xyHt
From Aug. 10:
Instead, invest in a fleet of drones. (Apologies for the clickbait headline!)
While I was talking to a surveyor whose firm employs UAS in their work, he mentioned the different models of the craft they have. I interrupted him: "Just how many drones do you have?"
"16" was the answer. This got me thinking about the advantages of owning a fleet of UAS.
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Geospatial World
From Sept. 28:
NASA has created a map of areas heavily damaged by the 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Mexico. The map is helping Mexican government and other private agencies in relief and rescue operations. The quake, whose epicenter was in Pueblo, caused enormous loss to life and property. Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech, both located in Pasadena, California, used before-and-after interferometric synthetic aperture radar satellite imagery of Mexico.
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Directions Magazine
From Nov. 30:
There is no doubt we live in a digital world, and portable digital mapping is changing the way we use geography to solve problems. Before you send out your plotter for surplus, though, I'll suggest that hard copy maps are not just relevant, but also essential, in our ever-more-digital geographic world. Behind every map is a story, and behind every story is a map, paper or digital.
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Inside GNSS
From March 16:
The U.S. Congress is prepared to deliver the coup de grace to a new rule aimed at protecting the personal information — including the geolocation — of broadband internet users. The move, one of a number aimed at eliminating Obama-era regulations, would slice through months of debate, and federal regulators' own backpedaling, to kill the pro-privacy rule in a way that makes resurrecting it extremely difficult.
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Directions Magazine
From Feb. 17:
We are only a few years away now from a milestone that distinguishes one data collection effort above all others, the decennial count that the U.S. Census Bureau conducts. The results of this monumental task, one which has been repeated once every 10 years since 1790, provide a quantitative snapshot of the nation that drives numerous political and social processes.
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Directions Magazine
From May 18:
In my 15 years in the geospatial industry, I've seen our industry respond to certain trends and take the lead in others. As with most industries, we regarded the Cloud with a certain amount of suspicion and trepidation — after all, many companies' geospatial data is their "ace in the hole" and they initially felt better and safer keeping it on premise, on their desktops or on servers.
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