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Bentley PowerMap standalone GIS

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

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In my recent GISWeekly report on Bentley’s Be Inspired Awards and Symposium product announcements, I neglected to mention the product PowerMap, which will enhnace the MicroStation V8i SELECTseries 1 technology but is a standalone product.

http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_weekly.php?articleid=753096

Company product description is as follows: “Bentley PowerMap is a full-featured standalone GIS designed to address the unique and challenging needs of organizations that map, plan, design, build, and operate the world’s infrastructure. It enhances underlying MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 1) technology to power precision geospatial data creation, maintenance, and analysis. Users can easily integrate data from a wide variety of sources into engineering and mapping workflows. Multiple data types with varying coordinate systems are transformed “on-the-fly” as they are added to a session. Powerful analytical and presentation tools allow for detailed analysis, studies and decision support.”

Add street sense to GIS crime reporting

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

For law enforcement, a lot of “GIS” begins on the street as police officers generally possess an innate knowledge of what areas on their beats are trouble spots. Those who are back at the office and doing crime analysis don’t have that field knowledge, however, they can identify hot spots with the help of:

http://crimeinamerica.net/2009/10/26/hot-spots-key-to-crime-control/

Here’s an idea: What if the GIS could include the so called “ground truth” gathered by police officers, as a specific sort of user-generated data?

Find the closest…er, haunted house

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Location-based technology enjoys some holiday fun with MapQuest’s latest “ghost icon search button” within the On-Map Search tool (located to the right hand side of the map).

This search shows not only locations of haunted houses and other Halloween festivities, but also includes a link to the web sites of haunted houses when available.

For more information, visit the MapQuest team blog at: http://blog.mapquest.com/.

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