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Today, SharedGeo announced it has commenced the first of what it hopes will be many “Shared Funding Projects”.  In concept, these projects use SharedGeo as the donation and management hub for projects that one entity alone does not have the funds or resources to back.  A rewrite of the U.S. National Grid Mashup for the Google Maps […]

SharedGeo learned today it has been accepted as an approved vendor in the State of Minnesota IT Professional Technical Services Master Contract  Program (MCP) – 902TS.  As such, local and state units of government throughout Minnesota can purchase products from SharedGeo with minimal paperwork.  The areas where SharedGeo qualified to deliver services are as follows: Data […]

Recently, the SharedGeo Board of Directors voted unanimously to become a sponsor of the Geospatial Information Technology Association (GITA) of Auroa, Colorado.   As such, it became GITA’s first “Bronze sponsor”, a sponsorship level tailored for small businesses and nonprofits such as SharedGeo.  In light of this development, SharedGeo Executive Director Steve Swazee offered the following: “Although GITA […]

Jim Klassen, one of the SharedGeo’s programmers, is presenting at FOSS4G North America 2012.  Check out his talk on Wednesday April 11 at 2pm.   He’ll be explaining how he set up a system to store and serve 50 TB of imagery on a limited budget.   Read more about his presentation, Build your own Cloud – […]

SharedGeo’s Technical Director, Bob Basques, has been selected to present at the Wisconsin Land Information Association’s (WLIA) Annual Convention being held in Stevens Point, WI on February 15-17, 2012.  The subject of Bob’s talk will be GeoMoose, an open source software project that Bob helped develop while working in the Public Works Department of the City […]

SharedGeo was one of the sponsors of the “New and Emerging Spatial Technologies Seminar” May 3-4 organized by the Minnesota and Wisconsin Chapters of GITA. Bob Basques spoke on Open Source Geospatial Software in Government and Steve Swazee gave a presentation on the MnGeo Emergency Preparedness Committee. Steve also presented at the Apr. 10-13 GITA Geospatial […]

SharedGeo announced today that its Technical Director, Bob Basques, has been named as the lead presenter for a three-hour workshop at the Free and Open Source Software “4” Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference in Denver during September 2011.  Bob will be conducting the workshop on GeoMoose, a product that he has used extensively which was developed during his tenure at the city […]

SharedGeo announced today it had commenced buildout of the information technology capabilities required to support the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) participation in the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI).  Upon completion of the first phase of the project, SharedGeo anticipates its servers will be hosting up to 50 TBs of wetland imagery for the Great Lakes basin.  As […]

At the request of the Geospatial Information and Technology Association (GITA) of North America, SharedGeo Executive Director Steve Swazee delivered two presentations at the annual national convention of GITA-Japan, held at Toyko University on December 7th, 2010.  In addition to the annual update about GITA-North American operations, Steve presented on the efforts of the MnGeo […]