As I mentioned, this Thursday and Friday, I'm at the MN GIS/LIS annual conference. I've tried to go to presentations about mobile GIS applications. Mobile GIS apps are a big part of my masters thesis, and work so, anyway, the other main themes this year are Internet Mapping, and Remote Sensing.
The conference has been good for a couple reasons.
1) Get to see people in the Minnesota GIS community I don't normally see like...
Steve Lime - Mapserver creator
Kimberly Kowal - Map Librarian at the University of Minnesota, and on the board of directors
Jesse Deegan - Recognized as a Scholorship winner at the conference
Susanna McMaster - The only Geography professor at Mac who's knowledge I still use, and they let her go. Now she's
Peter Morey - Rick Morey's brother, who, I think it's worth mentioning, has three brothers, a sister, and a brother-in-law who all work for MnDOT!)
Tim Loesch - DNR GIS Architect
2) Access to vendors for questions
Talked to a guy from Trimble. We're looking at getting a Trimble GeoXT ruggedized ( I like saying ruggedized) Windows CE device with built in GPS. I found out, though I couldn't from Trimble's website, that the new models will be bluetooth enabled. This means we can plan on leveraging (I don't like saying leveraging) our existing ArcIMS services for mobile GIS applications. And that's a good thing.
3) Network
I met a woman from Geo Comm, they do 911 location based services stuff. She seemed to know a lot about LBS technology in the US.
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