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Polls: Impacts of The Economic Crisis on Geospatial and Where 2.0

posted by Satri on Wednesday April 08, @07:24AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
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Polls The Industry New Event
Our last poll asked you about the impacts of the economic crisis on the geospatial industry. The results of of 47 votes: 42% say the economic crisis is bad for everyone, 8% claim geospatial won't be affected that much, but 21% are optimists and believe the economic crisis will actually be good for geospatial, 10% admit their ignorance and 17% don't see the economic crisis from where they stand. The new poll asks you about the upcoming O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference.

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QGIS Poll Results and New Poll on the Economic Crisis and Geospatial [+]
Time for a new poll. Our last one asked users about Quantum GIS and their recently released version 1.0 underline the fact that these polls aren't exactly reliable - I suspect QGIS enthusiasts having influenced the results! :-) Out of 144 votes, 52% shout "GIS rules", 27% are on the maybe or occasionally side, 8% admit they don't know about QGIS or don't need it, and 10% are using another open source GIS client instead.

Our new poll asks you about the potential impacts of the current economic crisis on the geospatial industry. On that very topic, you can find a lot of recent coverage with a search.
Calendar: Slashgeo at the Where 2.0 Conference and 15% Discount Code 2 comments [+]
It's my pleasure to announce Slashgeo will be present at the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference in San Jose, California, May 19-21. We'll thus provide wrap-ups in addition to linking to other summaries found on the geoblogs. If you haven't registered yet, you can use Slashgeo's discount code "whr09slgeo" to save 15% on the attendance fees. From the Where 2.0 site: "The past five years have seen significant changes in the geospatial web. Its importance and functionality have matured — it's not just maps anymore! Where 2.0 2009 will take the exploration of "location aware" even further." See below for our coverage of previous Where 2.0 conferences.
Poll: Where 2.0 Results and Sharing Location & New Donation [+]
Our last poll asking you about the Where 2.0 conference, gave the following results: out of 53 answers, 11% will be there, 41% would like to but can't, another 11% 'not this year', 24% no and 9% never! In other words, 52% will or want to go.

Our new poll, 100% inspired by All Points Blog new poll, asks you about whether your inclined to share your location through Internet technologies (think Google Latitude, MS GeoLife, Twitter, GeoRSS, etc).

I'm also happy to report a new donation to Slashgeo from Digital Vector Maps. It's getting harder and harder to be featured on Slashgeo's Top Donors list and have a link to your website on our main page (box on the right-hand side). Hopefully, even the smallest donations will be mentioned in our all-time contributors list. There are no ads here and we're supposed to pay the hosting bills via user donations. Thanks Digital Vector Maps!
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