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The month of September saw everyone return from summer holidays and get back to the grind! Here are some of the key Geo-Spatial News stories that have occurred over the last month. Census 2000 Data Capture Center at Census Bureau's National Processing Center The Commerce Department's Census Bureau opened the second of four data capture centers here on July 29, this one at its existing National Processing Center Full Story Here Largest GIS Conference Ever! With more than 9,000 attendees, ESRI's 1999 International User Conference, held July 26-30, broke another attendance record making it the largest geographic information system (GIS) gathering ever. Full Story Here Microsoft Agrees to Acquire Visio as Part of Mission To Increase Productivity for Businesses Microsoft Corp. announced it has agreed to acquire Visio Corp., the leading supplier of enterprise-wide business diagramming and technical drawing software, furthering Microsoft's mission of increasing productivity for businesses large and small - and their knowledge workers - worldwide. Full Story Here Images from Landsat 7 After soaring to space last spring, NASA's latest Earth-imaging satellite has completed its checkout phase and is now "open for business." New images from the Landsat 7 spacecraft are now available for viewing and purchase by scientific researchers and the general public via the Internet from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA. Full Story Here Geo Fun! The Geocommunity launched a "fun" section for geographers and visitors to The GeoCommunity website. The rec room is a fun place for visitors to kick back and try their luck at a variety of games, contest, and trivia. Go to The Fun Center Here Free Maps of Britain Free Ordnance Survey maps of Britain which can be searched by place names, postcodes and National Grid references are now available on the Internet - and users can take extracts for use on their own web sites without charge. Full Story Here Geologic Data Explorer on the web The USGS Energy Resources Program has developed the Geo-Data Explorer (GEODE) http://dss1.er.usgs.gov, an interactive program that makes available, over the Internet, various map coverages and datasets that can be used for decision making on energy and related land-management issues. This system can integrate various databases from USGS scientific investigations with state-of-the-art digital and Internet capabilities to provide scientific decision support. The system is designed to consist of comprehensive National geospatial coverage and Internet accessibility for rapid analysis of emerging issues. The GEODE includes capabilities for user-driven GIS (geographic information system) mapping and user-defined queries of coverages and active databases that are linked from many sources. For further information please contact Marc Levine (mlevine@usgs.gov). Full Story Here We archive all of our news releases. To access over 200 Geo Industry News releases for the month of September, 1999 simply go to http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/1999/sep/index.html where we have all the news conveniently stored. This past month we also initiated a Daily News Feed where you can get headlines conveniently emailed to you every day. All you have to do to get on the list is email to editor@geocomm.com with the Subject "Subscribe to Daily News Feed"  Next Section
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