Heh…”Supervisor Besch was concerned the county was spending $500,000 to make certain tasks faster and more efficient, but not expecting [to] save any money by reducing employees.”

“But where is location-based technology leading us in the larger sense? And where’s the business model beef? The first Where 2.0 Conference brings together the people, projects, and issues leading the charge into this technological frontier.”

Mixing Google Maps & Flickr: 1216 photos geotagged and counting.

“As a surveyor, you have vast opportunities. You can map the world’s terrain. Explore new oil sources. Investigate crime scenes. Take charge as a CEO. Appear in court as an expert witness…” […]

NGS is developing models and working with other agencies to use the GPS data from the CORS network to make high spatial and temporal resolution maps of the ionosphere on a continental scale

GIS gain much of their power from being able to collate and cross-reference many types of data by location.

A history of the relation of geology during the first 110 years of the U.S. Geological Survey to the development of public-land, Federal-science, and mapping policies and the development of mineral resources in the United States

from The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

using USGS maps to teach about Lewis & Clark

“Geodetic control is required to support mapping of the airports across the United States”