Welcome once again to our Tuesday edition of our Geo technology news roundup. To begin, we have a number of on-site videos to share with you that we filmed on location last week in Denver, Colorado at the annual International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF). Rich Bremer was on the exhibition hall floor and caught up with executives from Virtual Grid, Cardinal Systems, TerraGo Technologies, SCALGO, LizardTech, and Excelis. Enjoy several minutes from each company to hear about the solutions they have to offer professionals that need to use LiDAR data in their daily workflows. Videos are online in the new GISuser YouTube Channel. Recall, we also have Photos from #ILMF12 - Photos captured on the show floor at ILMF 2012 by Marc Cheves, Editor of Amerisurv.com. Finally, for you professionals interested in working with LiDAR, did you know that last week our own Spatial Media LiDARnews.com resource expanded their reach with the roll out of Volume #1 of LiDAR Magazine, a new print magazine for the industry! See details HERE - a FREE subscription is available to qualified industry professionals.

From the AnyGeo Blog... Here's a few of the latest tidbits and tech tips I've shared with the community at (blog.gisuser.com); A Giant Map from NGS to Hit Mississippi Museum of Natural Science - the map measures 26 feet by 35 feet and is designed as a giant game board; Nokia Shutting Down Navteq Mobile Developer Resource NN4D - NNV4 is indeed being shut-down for parent company Nokia, unfortunate for their entire team - no idea at this early stage what will happen with them; Here's details of a webinar that should appeal to many. The focus of the event is hot topics such as free tools, and open source software, with a focus on the small business owner; Remember to connect with @GISuser on Twitter and with over 17 thousand other Geo professionals on LinkedIN, a fabulous networking environment! Finally, make sure your company gets listed (FREE) in our growing GISuser Directory of location technology solution providers.

Carnival Of The Geospatialists #3 - Musings and Cool Things Shared by the Geo Faithful - It's been a couple of weeks so that means time again for another Geo Carnival... a fun roundup of GeoMusings and down-right cool, GeoGeekery from around the web. The first 2 GeoCarnivals went over very well (this according to our stats) so I'll keep up the sharing. Enjoy these nifty tips and items of interest to any GeoGeek.

Webinar - Learn How Open Source Software Benefits a Successful GIS Business - Join Lee Mitchell, owner of G.A.I.A. Professionals, a successful GIS technology firm and Dr. Devon Cancilla, dean, business and technology at American Sentinel University for a free webinar 'Starting a Geospatial Business' on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 1pm EST.

Giant Map from NGS to Hit Mississippi Museum of Natural Science - A cool Geo EDU story here as word of the National Geographic traveling map "road show" will be reaching Mississippi in an effort to help educate kids on geography. According to a report, the map measures 26 feet by 35 feet and is designed as a giant game board to introduce students to the diverse geography of Asia.

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