Directions Magazine now in Spanish

We very much welcome the news that Directions Magazine has launched its Spanish-language version Directionsmag.es from the 2 in February. Undoubtedly, this represents an important step and a recognition of the degree of growth that the geospatial field has had in the Spanish-speaking world.

Some of the contents are translations of the English / French version but they also offer their own material related to the market for tegotechnologies in Spain and Latin America. As announced in the press release, their focus is on the various industry sectors and geospatial technologies, such as GIS, location services, cartography, CAD, remote sensing, Web services, Business Intelligence (BI) and related applications. they.

The executive management of the Spanish portal is in charge of Alberto Santos, and as strategic collaborators are nothing less than:

• Gabriel Ortiz, Of the Government of Cantabria and well known in the web by its page Gabrielortiz.com.
• Alvaro de Gracia, Integeo Iberia
• Juan Marín Otero, New Light Technologies
• Oscar Alberto Díaz Bocanegra, by GTT NetCorp Latin America
  y GeoSolutions Consulting, Inc.
• Jesus of Diego, ACT Systems and Open University of Catalonia

One of the interesting novelties, unlike the English version is the section of blogs, where they have placed as referents for now:

• Geomarketing Spain
• Geofumadas
• Blog IDEE
• Itacas
• Talking about GIS
• Google Earth Blog
• GeoBlog

Additionally, there is space for job offers, events and even publishing articles for those who like to geofoam with their 105 fingers. So we welcome you to this new dissemination portal, for example these are some of the first articles:

• The future of GIS: a cross abyss
• gvSIG, evolution and keys of a free GIS against the proprietary model
• Interview with Bernardo Hernández, world director of Google's Geomarketing