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A Brand New GIS System Takes Place in Ireland
In today’s blog posting, we take a trip overseas to examine the state of the GIS market. In this regard, we travel all the way across the pond to Ireland. Back in 2012, a business entity known as the Irish Mapping and GIS Solutions (IMGS), along with its partners of...
Windstream Announces Market Expansion Plans
There is no doubt that the United States economy is actually in pretty good shape. For example, unemployment is at record lows and, despite the recent volatility in the financial markets and the looming threat of recession in China, on the whole, companies are...
TDS Telecom to Expand into Two New Telecom Markets
In some of our previous blog postings, we examined a number of key players in the telecom industry. Some of these players have included the likes of Verizon, AT&T, and other telecom giants located on both the East and West Coasts. In today’s article, we take a...
Introducing the SuperGIS Server
The world of GIS has become a lot more sophisticated and complex than one might think. For example, it is much more than simply taking pictures and snapshots of various landmarks and landscapes. It now involves the use of drone based technology, satellites taking...
New GIS Services coming to Eurostat
EuroGeographics is one of the largest GIS based business entities in the entire European Union. It was founded back in 2002, as result of the merger between the Comitée Européen des Responsables de la Cartographie Officielle (CERCO) and the Comitée Européen des...
Telecom Industry Ending Robocalls
One of the facts of everyday life is that we will always receive telephone calls and spam e-mails from companies wanting to sell us their products and services. Of course, there is nothing wrong with that. However, when it becomes an annoyance and happens on repeated...
How GIS Data can be used to Track Consumer Behavior
With stock and other financial markets reaching new highs and with unemployment at its lowest levels since the global recession of the last decade, the American consumer now has much more disposable income and spending power. One of the best places to spend this extra...
AT&T and Verizon to Offer New Pricing Models
Whenever a new product or service is released by a new vendor, especially if it comes from a large company like Microsoft, the impact, whether negative or positive, is immediately felt by both new and existing customers. Such is the case in the telecom and cable...
MapQuest and GIS help Drivers
Do you remember the days of yesteryear when, in order to get from Point A to Point B, you had to actually call someone to get driving directions and write it down on a piece of paper? If you happened to get lost en route you had to actually stop somewhere, usually a...