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On any given day in the United States, a few thousand vehicles are systematically collecting geographic data — including street centerlines, number of lanes, turn restrictions, speed limits, traffic speed, locations of television and radio broadcast antennas, and street-level images of streets, building, and signage.

The market and technical distinctions between consumer and professional GIS products and services are rapidly disappearing. Consider this:

Geospatial professionals can now embed their GIS products into the widely used PDF format. Map2PDF, by TerraGo Technologies, enables users to export maps they’ve created in a GIS to GeoPDF files that can be viewed using Adobe’s free [...]

Geographic information systems (GIS), as a way to manage, map, and analyze geographic information, and the World Wide Web, as a way to make this information accessible to as many people as possible, are natural allies. Therefore, the term “Web GIS” has been around for years as a category for products and services. For example, [...]

In a recent entry we asked our readers if they believed panoramic mapping and advertising technology (like EveryScape’s) would become widely used.  The result?
Of those who thought it would become widely used, we received the following comments:
“I think it’s a great idea and would benefit users and advertisers, but both groups would have to aggressively [...]