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The value of knowing where things are...

With the ever-evolving technology made available via the internet and cell phones, information is virtually at your fingertips wherever you are. I can remember writing research reports in grade school using the Encyclopedia as your main source for information. If you still needed more information, you had to go to the library and look through the card catalog (do they even have that anymore?!) to find where the book was located. It was usually a long and tedious process. So what if you read something that wasn’t going to benefit you for that particular project? You still learned in the process. This is virtually obsolete anymore with the invention of the internet. You simply go to your favorite search engine (Google, Yahoo, Bing) and type in ANY topic you are interested in and have virtually 100,000 matches. Whether they are relevant or useful is up to you to decipher, but the information is there for us to access.

Using the Geodexy program gives you a portable workstation where you can not only access existing data; you can also enter data from anywhere you are. Custom forms can be created (geared specifically towards the data being collected), pictures can be taken, and also record the GPS coordinates of your current location. The data is stored on your phone/device and can be instantly uploaded to the Web, viewable from anywhere.
Now I’m sure you are thinking “Why this is important?”
You can extend your reach from wherever you are with the location leverage information. If you are out in the field collecting data and aren’t sure if you went to all your locations for the day, the device can tell you what statistics have been collected and what hasn’t. Your boss can view the information instantaneously, once uploaded. With everything being directly saved to your mobile device, it can never get lost. How many times have you written something down on a post-it note or piece of paper, knew (or at least thought you knew) where you put it, and either couldn’t find it or couldn’t read what you wrote down. Guilty! The device takes these types of errors out of the equation because everything is collected and entered on the spot. Data is no longer trapped on someone’s clip board until they have the time to input the information into the computer.
But what is the value of the device if you don’t know where things are to collect them?
To figure out where you want to go, you have to know where you are.
Generally speaking, what is the value of knowing where things are? It’s not like someone in life is going to give you a gold star because you know where the nearest McDonald’s is located. There might not necessarily be a reward for knowing where things are, what some might consider useless knowledge now with the ever handy GPS device, but there is value. It’s up to you to determine what that value means to you.

Posted by Mary Nelson Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:12:00 GMT

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Have you seen the new Geodexy Tablet release?

The Spatial Networks product team catches CEO in the act of dishing on Geodexy.

More Geodexy videos at: http://www.youtube.com/user/geodexy

Posted by Mike Hapner Fri, 08 May 2009 11:41:00 GMT

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The largest Kindle ever... DXXL

Just a little light reading this morning over coffee. I’m about to take this on the road for some ultra-mobile data collection - really looking forward to getting my fists on that QWERTY XL keyboard!


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Posted by Mike Hapner Thu, 07 May 2009 11:39:00 GMT

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Renewed Excitement

I just got a chance to look at TrekServ and I think it’s a great program. It looks very user friendly and like it will be used by a lot of people once it’s ready to hit the market.

After reading the last blog post I realized there are many different dialects of Mandarin which is the Chinese language, but they are all written the exact same way so adding it to Geodexy and TrekServ may not be such a hard task…

I’m also switching to straight green tea with no sugar instead of coffee. It works for me at home and I’m thinking it will keep me more energetic later in the day :P

Posted by Shane Finn Tue, 19 May 2009 11:17:00 GMT

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