Infrastructure Recommendations for an ESRI and IBM Geographic Information System
White Papers ESRI is an industry leader in Geographic Information Systems and has been rewarded with a market-share leadership position. IBM has industry-leading information technology project management and systems integration capabilities necessary to deliver...
[August 23, 2005, 6:00]
Leading GIS Provider to Deliver Cost-Effective Solution for Small Organizations
White Papers As the world leader in Geographic Information System (GIS) technology and mapping software, ESRI provides systems for the management, analysis, and display of geographic information. ESRI is currently building a lower-cost integrated GIS and...
[January 1, 2007, 0:00]
Google mapping spec made industry standard
News The OGC version, which geographic information system (GIS) software specialist Galdos Systems helped bring to the standardisation process, is based on KML 2.2. Members of industry group the Open Geospatial Consortium have approved Google's KML...
[April 15, 2008, 10:53]
Berners-Lee: Intelligent Web requires co-operation
News When you start querying properties of [geographic] features, it's no longer just a geographic system. The RDF necessary to make the sharing of GIS data possible can be dynamically generated, he explained, in the same way as the HTML for large Web...
[September 19, 2006, 14:50]
GRASS GIS
Downloads Commonly referred to as GRASS, this is a Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization.
[June 20, 2009, 5:43]
ESRI and SAP Solutions: City of San Diego
White Papers For years, government agencies across the County of San Diego have been at the forefront of using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to better serve their communities. This includes the City of San Diego Street Division, which has...
[January 11, 2006, 23:00]
A Load-on-Demand Approach to Handling Large Networks in the Oracle Spatial Network Data Model
White Papers Network modeling, management, and analysis are common tasks for enterprise applications such as Geographic Information System (GIS), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), social network analysis, and in semantic web technologies such as the...
[July 31, 2009, 1:21]
ArcPad: Mobile GIS
White Papers Mobile GIS is the combination of geographic information system (GIS) software, global positioning systems (GPS), and mobile computing devices. Mobile GIS fundamentally changes the way information is collected, used in the field, and shared with the...
[August 23, 2005, 6:00]
Enabling Spatial Intelligence in Your BI Solution With Oracle Warehouse Builder, Oracle Discoverer, and Oracle MapViewer
White Papers Location as a point on a map - used only to delineate a single point or location from other points, locations, and/or themes, and accessible only by geographic information system (GIS) users. Location information is everywhere; it can be found...
[March 10, 2006, 0:01]
Commune de Villeurbanne Deploys System to Manage and Maintain More Than 10,000 Lighting Points
White Papers The challenge was to synchronize and update alphanumeric and cartographic data in real time and respect the Geographic Information System (GIS) architecture in place and make it possible to interface with existing third-party applications.
[November 3, 2007, 0:00]
Mobile GIS Speeds Disaster Relief
White Papers Armed with experience responding to disasters and knowledge of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, the North Carolina Division of Public Health developed a mobile GIS application that improved its ability to collect information and...
[January 11, 2006, 23:00]
GIS Improves Marketing, Logistics, and Sales
White Papers After searching for a solution that would better integrate information and allow easy access across the enterprise, Coinstar recognized that Geographic Information System (GIS) could meet these needs, provide powerful mapping, and provide a...
[January 11, 2006, 23:00]
KyungDong City Gas Improves Efficiency by Consolidating on Integrated ERP System
White Papers The new Oracle system is linked to KyungDong City Gas' Geographic Information System (GIS) and Executive Information System (EIS), ensuring the company can analyze data from across its business. KyungDong City Gas replaced its disparate management...
[February 28, 2007, 0:00]
Using Microsoft Dynamics CRM to Reduce Non-Value-Add Activities at Microsoft
White Papers In the past, this geographic diversity was compounded by the lack of formal Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. However, the OEM staff used an informal system of Microsoft Office Excel worksheets, Microsoft Office Word documents, and...
[March 3, 2009, 23:00]
Using GIS to Create Official Travel Map
White Papers When the time came to update the map, the Travel Division began by updating its mapmaking processes using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology from ESRI, which was being used in TxDOT. The mission of the Texas Department of Transportation...
[January 11, 2006, 23:00]
Turtles of the World
Downloads The geographic information system MapIt plots distributions of selected species on a set of quadrant maps, allowing for different scaled maps, the ability to compare distributions of pairs of species, map species density per quadrant, and check...
[July 1, 2000, 8:00]
Scenario-Based Spatial Decision Support for Network Infrastructure Design
White Papers The paper combined the powerful analytical and visualization capabilities of a Geographic Information System (GIS) with mathematical methods of graph theory and combinatorial optimization. This paper describes an extended framework for scenario...
[January 9, 2008, 0:01]
Vanderburgh County Highway Department Automates AVL Data Collection
White Papers Residents of the county became concerned over the amount of time it took for the streets to be plowed, so the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) department began placing Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) units in the plows.
[April 8, 2009, 0:00]
SCUB: A Distributed, Utility-Based Architecture for Closed Loop Control With Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers The approach is based on a mathematical framework, which, based on multi-attribute utility theory, allows either end-users to easily express the value (utility) that they would attach to sensor information based on features associated with the...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Putnam Lovell NBF Banks on a Custom Approach to Tracking Client Information
White Papers Given that the firm operates in a high-margin, unpredictable, and unforgiving industry and expected to expand its geographic presence, knowledge management was essential. After doubling the size of its business in less than two years, investment...
[July 12, 2006, 0:00]



