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Microsoft Virtual Earth updates

By Brad Cutler | January 29, 2008 | Comments Off on Microsoft Virtual Earth updates

For those of you who haven’t seen the update posted for this month, Microsoft has updated their imagery to the Virtual Earth platform. This new update consists of 27.32 TB…

The Iowa Caucuses

By Brad Cutler | January 8, 2008 | Comments Off on The Iowa Caucuses

This should probably be a posting that talks about all the mapping mashups that showed the results from last week’s caucuses here in Iowa, but it isn’t. I saw this…

Over the river and through the woods……….

By Brad Cutler | December 21, 2007 | Comments Off on Over the river and through the woods……….

Just in time for all of you who are traveling to (or through) lovely Davenport for the holiday season, Microsoft Virtual Earth has unveiled a ton of new imagery around…

Imagery for the Nation Update

By Brad Cutler | September 19, 2007 | Comments Off on Imagery for the Nation Update

For those of you who haven’t seen the announcement, the cost-benefit analysis conducted on the Imagery for the Nation Initiative is completed and available for your review. NSGIC also had…

With Liberty & Free Data for All?

By Anne Packard | July 5, 2007 | Comments Off on With Liberty & Free Data for All?

Happy 4th of July! Recently I saw information on what is happening in California with regard to their policies on GIS data. They had similar rules about charging no more…

IGIC email list archives

By Brad Cutler | June 21, 2007 | Comments Off on IGIC email list archives

As a heads-up to those of you who might ever be looking for IGIC email list archives: http://groups.google.com/group/igic/topics The archive has been archiving since May of 2006.

IGIC Committee Charters

By Brad Cutler | June 21, 2007 | Comments Off on IGIC Committee Charters

Over the last six months, the IGIC Executive Committee and the individual IGIC Committee Chairs have worked to draft the following committee charter documents. Each of the committees have a…

Links of interest

By Brad Cutler | June 21, 2007 | Comments Off on Links of interest

OK. We’ve converted back to the “classic” Blogger template for the IGIC blog. In doing so, we lost a little bit of the functionality that was somewhat useful in the…

Imagery for the Nation Update – June 2007

By Brad Cutler | June 19, 2007 | Comments Off on Imagery for the Nation Update – June 2007

NSGIC is planning a series of updates to keep people informed about progress on the Imagery for the Nation Iinitiative. The current document can be found here [PDF]. The next…

Iowa Geospatial Infrastructure blog created

By Brad Cutler | May 18, 2007 | Comments Off on Iowa Geospatial Infrastructure blog created

In an effort to keep folks up to date and in the loop with happenings related to the Iowa Geospatial Infrastructure (IGI) workgroup and project, a new website/blog has been…

RFP for Business Planning Services

By Brad Cutler | May 18, 2007 | Comments Off on RFP for Business Planning Services

Today IGIC is releasing an RFP [PDF, 20.45 KB] for consulting services to help us develop the business plan. This request will be open to anyone, including individuals, private service…

2007 IGIC Conference Review

By Anne Packard | May 14, 2007 | Comments Off on 2007 IGIC Conference Review

Well, the 2007 IGIC Conference, held in Sioux City, Iowa, has successfully come to an end. The most exciting piece of the conference was the fact that Ron Koch, Conference…