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Why iLike Android and the Nexus 7

Why iLike Android and the Nexus 7, by Richard Duncan, Vice President of GEO-Jobe GIS Consulting.  This article is an independent review of the Nexus 7 and Android Operating System and provides important feature specs for local government and utility personnel who are interested in mobile systems. FiRst allow me to begiN by sayiNg iLike [...]

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The WebGL Globe is my IMAX Theater

If you haven’t already, you should check out the WebGL Globe, an open platform for visualizing geographic data.  This  Chrome Experiment is created by the Google Data Arts Team and contains several interesting Google Earth views of different types of data.  The team encourages you to copy the code, add your own data, and create [...]

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Are QR Codes Affecting the Way We Find Geographical Information?

QR Codes give you quick access to data via a mobile “QR code/barcode scanning app.”  But unlike standard barcodes, they provide much more data than your basic RFID.  So how can QR Codes be implemented to provide relevant geospatial information?   QR Codes must be linked to some type of data like text, video, a phone [...]

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