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Eric Gakstatter


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Eric Gakstatter is GPS World's contributing editor for Survey and Construction, writing a twice-monthly e-newsletter. He has spent 18 years in the GPS survey/mapping industry as a product manager, GPS user, consultant, and a non-partisan advocate for the GPS user community.


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Are You a Professional? Follow-up Letters and Using GIS for Commercial Real Estate Market Research   September 1, 2010
By: Eric Gakstatter

I’m happy that last week’s article titled “Are You a Professional?” evoked responses from readers. I thought I’d share a couple of the responses I received. Also, I've included a good piece on using GIS for commercial real estate market research.

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August 31 Webinar Q&A Follow-up   August 31, 2010
By: Eric Gakstatter

Earlier today (August 31st), I conducted a webinar entitled “Solar Activity, SBAS and 24+3 GPS Constellation Updates”. Considering we only announced the webinar three weeks ago, we had a fantastic registration numbers, with over 570 registered. I also had a lot of questions before and during...more >>

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Are You a Professional? Follow-up Letters and Using GIS for Commercial Real Estate Market Research   August 31, 2010
By: Eric Gakstatter

I’m happy that last week’s article entitled “Are You a Professional?” evoked responses from readers. I thought I’d share a couple of the responses I received. Also, I've included a good piece on using GIS for commercial real estate market research.

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Are You a Professional?   August 25, 2010
By: Eric Gakstatter

This is a question that has been tossed around a lot in the past few years. I hear it both from GIS folks and from land surveyors. Are you a professional? What constitutes a professional? Do you refer to yourself as a professional? If so, why?

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Upcoming Webinar and DoD Releases New GPS Specification Documents   August 23, 2010
By: Eric Gakstatter

I received some engaging emails about the Solar Activity discussion in my last newsletter. Since that newsletter, I’ve announced a webinar I’ll be conducting next Tuesday, August 31st. The primary subject I will discuss during the webinar will be the effect of solar activity on GPS users.

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Four Months with the Apple iPad: Where Do We Stand?   August 18, 2010
By: Eric Gakstatter

It’s been eight months since the iPad was introduced. Last Spring, I wrote that it was imperative that the consumer market accept the iPad for it to have a chance to have an impact in the geospatial industry. Eight months later, do you think it’s been considered a success in the consumer market?

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Unemployment Trend Since January 2007 Illustrated by GIS   August 17, 2010
By: Eric Gakstatter

Journalist LaToya Egwuekwe used GIS to create a multimedia graphic that illustrates U.S. unemployment by county on a monthly basis since January 2007. The graphic was distributed through many media outlets as well as Youtube where it's generated nearly 150,000 views.

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High-Volume Mobile Mapping for Rural Utilities   August 10, 2010
By: Eric Gakstatter

Recording the location, dimensions and physical attributes of every piece of equipment constituting rural utilities throughout the United States might seem like a tall order. But information tools used to build geographic information systems (GIS) have advanced so much in recent years that the...more >>

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Solar Activity and Powerpoint Presentations   August 4, 2010
By: Eric Gakstatter

You might have heard reports this week about a solar storm this week. This is part of the new solar cycle (Solar Cycle 24) that I’ve written about several times. I want to periodically touch on this subject as the solar activity is going to increase over the next few years and if the solar...more >>

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Check out My Library of Presentations   August 3, 2010
By: Eric Gakstatter

Between webinars and conferences, I've put together a fair number of Powerpoint presentations in the past few months. I'm in the process of uploading many of them, some dating back years, to our website. I hope you enjoy them.









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