The GIS Lens 
Sanjay Gangal
Sanjay Gangal is the President of IBSystems, the parent company of AECCafe.com, MCADCafe, EDACafe.Com, GISCafe.Com, and ShareCG.Com. Video: GIS to the Rescue by The National Alliance for Public Safety GIS FoundationApril 7th, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
Article source: NAPSG Foundation Want to learn what GIS can do for local and county public safety agencies? This is the latest of NAPSG’s videos to help you understand how you can leverage geospatial technology as a key asset in mitigating risk and enhancing community resilience. About NAPSG The National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation is a nonprofit organization that was formed in 2005 to overcome the challenges faced by Federal, tribal, state, and local public safety agencies. Our mission is to support the public safety and homeland security communities in the advancement of data interoperability and connectivity, through Geographic Information Systems, in support of local and national preparedness goals. Video: BIM & CAD to GIS Workflow by CDV SystemsApril 6th, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
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Esri Product Manager Ismael Chivite describes how to serve your maps in a way that your users can select and download map data for their own use. You can do this by using one of the sample data extraction models provided with ArcGIS Server 10. These models are written in Python, so you can customize them or use as-is. Ismael demonstrates how to create both a map service for the layers of your map, and a geoprocessing service which provides the select, extract, and download operations. If you add in the optional Data Interoperability Extension, you can provide your users over 100 different GIS and spatial data formats to choose from. Learn more at http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/samples/index.html Video: Internet Editing in Desktop by EsriApril 5th, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
Esri Product Manager Ismael Chivite describes how ArcGIS Desktop can be used to edit map data stored over the web in feature services. He demonstrates how the standard editing tools in ArcMap can be used, also how to enable the feature service capability for editing over the web. Learn more at http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisserver/10.0/help/arcgis_server_dotnet_help/in. Intergraph 2010 User ConferenceSeptember 7th, 2010 by Sanjay Gangal
I attended the Intergraph 2010 conference last week in Las Vegas. It was held in the spanking new Casino resort called ‘Aria’ in the ‘City Center’. Aria is a beautiful hotel with great restaurants and the most high-tech rooms than I have ever stayed in before. The conference was well-attended with over 2,000 attendees. Intergraph was very generous with free breakfast, lunch, dinner, and evening entertainment for all attendees. There were more than 50 partner booths and a number of educational sessions. I listened to the keynotes by Halsey Wise (President & CEO) of Intergraph. He talked about how Intergraph has shown consistent financial performance with both revenue and profits growing for the last 7 years. He also mentioned that the customer satisfaction rating has gone up during the last 12 months. He also announced that he will leave Intergraph next month when merger with Hexagon is completed. He introduced Ola Rollén, President and CEO of Hexagon who will take over his role at Intergraph with the current heads of PP&M and SG&I divisions reporting to Ola. Ola then came on the stage and talked about the rationale for the merger. Ola joined Hexagon in 2,000 and since then Hexagon has acquired more than 50 companies in last 10 years including Leica, ERDAS, and Novatel. It has 7,500 employees in 39 countries. Hexagon has traditionally been a ‘measurement’ company. With Intergraph’s acquisition it moves a little beyond that label. I interviewed Mark Doherty, V.P. and CTO of the SG&I division. I also interviewed the following executives:
ESRI International User Conference CoverageJuly 9th, 2010 by Sanjay Gangal
We are recording video interviews at the ESRI UC in San Diego on July 13th and 14th in our studio inside the exhibition hall. Here are some of the companies that have signed up for an interview:
Many of these companies have major announcements at the conference. Check my blog next week for an update. Interviews from GITA and ASPRS showsMay 5th, 2010 by Sanjay Gangal
It was very hectic but I managed to travel to Phoenix to attend GITA last Monday and Tuesday and then hopped on a short flight to San Diego to cover the ASPRS show. The attendance was down in both of the shows but quality of attendees was up. In other words, important people from government and industry still managed to attend these shows. Check out the GITA interviews at: http://www10.giscafe.com/video/display_media.php?category_id=10223 and the ASPRS interviews at: http://www10.giscafe.com/video/display_media.php?category_id=10225 Feel free to write to me let me know what you liked and how we can improve the videos and the GISCafe site. GIS Industry responds to the Haiti DisasterJanuary 17th, 2010 by Sanjay Gangal
Check out the ‘GIS Industry responds to the Haiti Disaster’ at: http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?articleid=780315 If you or your company is involved with helping with the Haiti Relief Effort, and wish to be included in this report, feel free to send me an email by responding to this Blog post. GeoINT 2009 CoverageOctober 26th, 2009 by Sanjay Gangal
GeoINT 2009 turned out to be a great show with good attendance. We interviewed 30 companies. All of the interviews are now posted at: http://www10.giscafe.com/video/display_media.php?category_id=10197 While all of the interviews are excellent, some stand out more than others because of the sheer enthusiasm and genuine excitement of the interviewees. I was really impressed with Al Wargo of Zebra Imaging and the holographic technologies they are bringing out to maps and CAD drawings. The color holograms were truly astonishing (at about 3:50 time marker in the interview). I was also struck by the enthusiasm of Jeff Peters of ESRI when he was talking about an upcoming release of ARCGIS 9.4. Jeff is extremely knowledgeable and it seems he is pretty involved and truly excited about this release. Cherie Darnel of ITT was another standout. She just has a great personality. Her enthusiasm about their ENVI product is infectious. Everyone at the DigitalGlobe was really pumped up about their new satellite which went up in the orbit a couple of weeks ago and sent some great images beginning of last week. They also have a great stand-out booth. It was a real privilege to meet Dr. Walter Scott who founded Digital Globe literally in his garage in 1992. It is really fun to interview someone who is passionate about something. Mark Brender of GeoEYE perfectly fits this category. He is really passionate about the GeoEYE Foundation and his face lights up when he talks about it. We do record the video interviews in front of a green screen and then replace the green screen with pictures of the corresponding booths. The interviewees are asked ahead of time not to wear green. But some of the ‘booth uniforms’ are green and the interviewees forget about the green screen at the interview time. This happened with Dylan Lorimer of Google and Jerry Skaw of Microsoft. See if you can notice the video editing artifacts in these interviews. Next stop — Autodesk University in Las Vegas on December 1 … Preparing for GEOINT 2009October 7th, 2009 by Sanjay Gangal
I got back from Germany last week after attending a great Intergeo 2009 conference. The halls were buzzing with activity all the time. There were about 500 booths at the show and 15,000 attendees. Most booths were extremely busy. We recorded twenty interviews at Intergeo 2009. You can see them on GISCafe.Com homepage. We are now getting ready to go to the GEOINT 2009 conference in San Antonio, Texas. We have already booked the following interviews:
Here is what you can expect to see at some of the booths:
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