PERSPECTIVES
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What Is Spatial Quality and Why Is It Important To The Design Process?
Spatial quality is about strategies, policies, design and effective creation and use of spaces. It applies to buildings, landscapes and infrastructure. While spatial data quality is also important, it is not spatial quality, but can be considered an important aspect of good spatial quality. Effective design will have higher spatial quality as functioning increases, use rises and a variety of needs for people and organisations are met.
- Jeff Thurston, editor, Europe, Middle East and Africa
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FEATURES
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HABITATS – Towards the Interoperability through Social Validation
The HABITATS project (Social Validation of INSPIRE Annex III Data Structures in EU HABITATS) focuses on adoption of the INSPIRE standards through a participatory process to design and validate data, metadata and services specifications with citizens and businesses. According to the HABITATS user-driven approach to standardisation, the full impact of the results is sparked off by the pilot service scenarios and the ability to attract new participants to the communities of adoption.
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TOP 5 LINKS OF THE WEEK
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Jeff's Link
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- EVRS - European Vertical Reference System
- cadastre - Cadastral Portal of Switzerland
- CRSeu - European Coordinate Reference Systems
- GIS Pathway - GIS scholarships, education and resource
- DaMSA - Danish Maritime Safety Servies Portal
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Matt's Links
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- Dowser - who's solving what and how
- Immigration Explorer - a NYT interactive map of the latest immigrants to the U.S.
- Mapas Coletivas - mapping the slums of Sao Paolo
- EMBARQ - implementing sustainable transport solutions in cities.
- WarViews - visualizing and animating geographic data on conflict
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Reader's Links (submit links to
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- USGS Water Alert - the service sends e-mail or text messages when certain parameters exceed user-definable thresholds
- EGoS - European group of surveyors
- DENR - Dept of Environment and Natural Resources Philippines
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INTERVIEWS
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Nexteq Navigation Advances Global Precise Point Positioning
 Nexteq Navigation is a leading developer of Precise Point Positioning (PPP) technology. This GNSS approach aims to provide high-accuracy positioning through the use of a single receiver involving satellite derived global corrections. The company's 'Freedom' technology provides improved results, with a 50% increase in accuracy - using internet communicated corrections in real-time. Vector1 Media editor Jeff Thurston interviewed Dr. Yang Gao, CEO of Nexteq Navigation Corporation in Calgary, Canada recently.
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Exelis VIS Continues to Offer Robust and Flexible Imagery Solutions Under New Name and Leadership
 ITT Corporation has spun off its three business units into three standalone, publicly traded companies. ITT Defense & Information Solutions became Exelis, Inc. when this change officially took place on October 31 of this past year. As a part of the change, ITT Visual Information Solutions became Exelis Visual Information Solutions (VIS). With this new organization, Richard Cooke was promoted from president of ITT VIS in Boulder, Colorado to lead a larger business within Exelis that oversees the Exelis VIS business. Exelis VIS promoted from within to appoint Jaye Lampe, a 14-year company veteran, as president. V1 editor Matt Ball recently spoke with Lampe about the transition, and the company’s ongoing techimagina 2012 Monaco: Bentley Extends 3D Integration
nology approach within the imagery analysis and image delivery segments.
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TOP 5 BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK
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BOOK REVIEW
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Strategic Spatial Projects: Catalysts for Change
 Strategic Spatial Projects: Catalysts for Change is focused upon the transformative nature of strategic spatial change for urban planning. The book weaves between design and strategic potential, with a goal of achieving sustainable systems in urban planning. The material asserts that technological plannig alone is not enough, nor urban planning based on competitive business outcomes. Instead, it suggests that spatial quality in terms of how urban areas function is the central force of success. Toward this end, socio-economic benefits must emerge through strategic planning efforts - and these need to take significant new ways of thinking. |
EVENT COVERAGE
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The International Lidar Mapping Forum Tracks Progress in Denver
 The 12th International Lidar Mapping Forum drew a record attendance of more than 750 attendees to their annual gathering last week in Denver. The event took place from Jan.23-25 at the downtown Hyatt Regency. The busy program schedule was well balanced by booths representing 60 companies. The program placed both an emphasis on research and innovation as well as application, with a mix of process oriented sessions, the strategies and hurdles of collection, and innovative LIDAR applications.
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TOP STORIES
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HEADLINES
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Pleiades Captures Its First Images
The First GPS: High-Tech Navigation in 1909
Norway to Expand Arctic Seabed Surveying
German Air Pollution Rises Despite Green Zones
Ecological Urbanism for the 21st Century |
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EVENTS
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Association of American Geographers, Feb. 23-28, New York, New York
GeoNext Conference, Feb. 29, Sydney, Australia
GIS/CAMA Technologies Conference, March 12-15, San Antonio, Texas
Verge - Converging Energy, Information, Buildings and Transportation - March 14-16, Washington, D.C.
Planet Under Pressure, March 26-29, London, UK
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Visualizing Earth Science (2009)
By Zeeya Merali and Brian J. Skinner
This accessible format, coupled with the assumption that students have little knowledge of earth science, allows students to navigate through the material with greater ease – the goal being to help them understand the world around them and interpret what they see in a meaningful, accurate and exciting way.
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By Gary Sherman, Tyler Mitchell
This book provides a foundational level of knowledge for understanding GIS and the open source desktop mapping applications that are available for use, for free, today.
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The Sympathy of Things (2012)
By Lars Spuybroek
The author argues that we must "undo" the twentieth century--the age in which the eighteenth-century ideal of the Sublime (the aspiration towards overwhelming awe) became a technological reality.
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SUBSCRIPTIONS
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