ACSM Bulletin 241
What's inside
The theme that weaves through the October issue of the ACSM Bulletin is empowerment through communication. It's mostly the new communication media that we focus on in an interview with EchoStorm's co-founder David Barton on the use of video to enhance situational awareness. Sean Glynn of Credant Technologies talks about ensuring data security on portable devices, and Georg Gartner, professor of Geoinformation and Cartography at the Vienna University of Technology, sheds light on ubiquitous cartography. Most new forms of communication owe their success to the rise of the Internet and the Web. Currently, we speak about cloud computing and how this [not so revolutionary] arrangement in the IT infrastructure has spawned a boom in the use of web-mapping platforms and "popularized" sharing of information across platforms. The next great global industry, according to John Doerr and Jeff Immelt, is green technology, and in her article on renewable energy, Jessica Wyland asks whether this is dream come true. The October issue carries three book reviews--of Echohouse, Longitude by Wire, and Family Reference Atlas of the World. Traditionally in October we publish the names of the winners of the Richard E. Lomax National Trig-Star Scholarships and Teaching Excellence Awards; the 2009 winners are featured on pp. 36-37. Also in October, the JGAC semi-annual report comes out, and this year, we report on a ceremony held at the Department of the Interior on September 27 to mark the release of the 2009 Manual of Surveying Instructions. The surveying marker, an old and revered form of delineating property lines, is at the center of an article we reprinted from The Salt Lake Tribune about one such marker from which the government drew boundaries for reservations. Other important communications on surveying and mapping themes are John Hohol's report on the FIG meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, and Gary Kent's ALTA column dissecting the issue of "ALTA certifications police." We have a tongue-in-a-cheek account about "Parallax" and his unsupportable and unsupported dogmas about the "flat Earth," and an inspirational missive from the "un-comfort zone" about the power of praise. And finally, interspersed among the features, columns, and reports are the newsScan and two GeoScans, each bringing "sound bytes" of events and people within the geospatial community we're part of.
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