VoyagerGIS and NLT recently signed a reseller agreement that makes NLT a distributor of VoyagerGIS products expanding on their current tool sets and reach deeper into their data assets.

Did you know 1 out of 5 D.C. residents live at or below the poverty line?

 

For the past five years, New Light Technologies has made yearly donations to So Others Might Eat (SOME), an organization that provides the necessary resources to help DC's homeless and poor get off the streets, around its annual Thanksgiving Day Trot for Hunger.

New Light Technologies had the wonderful opportunity to be a web sponsor for [http://digitalcapitalweek.org/] Digital Capital Week Festival 2012, more commonly known as DCWEEK 2012.

New Light Technologies, Inc. (NLT) and the Sanborn Map Company’s Intelligence Division announce a strategic partnership. The partnership consists of co-marketing products and services that focus on strengthening customer value proposition for Geospatial information systems (GIS) services in the federal, DOD and intelligence sectors. Together, they will focus on cutting edge social media mapping, human geography, LiDAR and 3D Visualization capabilities.

OnTheMap for Emergency Management was highlighted in the Census Bureau Directors blog today.

Check it out at:  http://directorsblog.blogs.census.gov/

This study analyzes findings from extant research on voter identification legislation, population growth, and the influence of geography on political participation.

NLT collaborated with District of Columbia's Office of Zoning (DCOZ) to create an interactive mapping application which allows the public to search zoning information throughout the city.  On April 13, 2012, DCOZ became the first agency in the country to make the electronic map their official map.

Voyager GIS Data Discovery

Written by:  William Lescure

Voyager is a powerful search tool that allows an organization or individual to manage, audit and search for all GIS files across an organization.  Voyager allows a user to search for files by a spatial query through a map interface or by a text search.  In addition to these search methods, data can be filtered by location, file extension, theme, version, spatial reference, author, properties, keywords, geometry type, file format or file type.  Voyager allows a user to quickly and easily search for geographic files that may be difficult and time consuming to find, even in an organized data catalog.  Voyager automates the indexing of files and drastically cuts down on the time and inefficiency of managing, locating and retrieving spatial data. 

It is possible to run a number of searches in succession with Voyager.  For instance, a user could perform a spatial query in and around a particular county, from the dataset created by that query,...

Consulting Service Engagements for Deploying ArcGIS Online

Written by:  William Lescure



I attended the May 24, 2012 ESRI Business Partner Webinar, which discussed consulting service opportunities for business partners deploying ArcGIS Online.  The webinar went over the new possibilities with ArcGIS Online to reach customers who currently use ArcGIS Desktop but because of a lack of budget or expertise, did not use ArcGIS Server to take full advantage of sharing or web publishing opportunities.  With ArcGIS online most of the financial and technical hurdles of the past have been eliminated. 

ArcGIS Online should also open up opportunities with new clients, who have never used geographic content in their business practices before.  It will now be possible for companies and agencies with limited budgets and geospatial knowledge to easily create maps with an excel spreadsheet or with GPX data.  ArcGIS Online will also enable mobile data collection using phones and other mobile devices. ...

A study that ranks DC Government owned buildings' potential for generating solar power.

Written by:  William Lescure