Webcast reminder - Tomorrow, Enable Data Independence for Field Users

Tomorrow, TerraGo and Adobe are hosting an hour long webinar titled "Enable Data Independence for Field Users". About the session... "Non geo-savvy users need to access and collaborate with geospatial data and assets. These users aren’t concerned whether it is a map from ESRI or an image from ERDAS, they just want the information to help them respond faster, make better decisions and enable their teams to be more productive." Time and Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 11am Eastern; 8am Pacific - see details and register here
Attendees will learn how to:

• put disparate data sources together in a single, intelligent, interactive PDF
• Review geospatial data types required by non-GIS experts
• create a functional map using multiple data sources easily and securely accessible by anyone using Adobe Reader

Adobe Acrobat 9 and Adobe Reader 9 and geospatial functionality

Recall that recently, with the release of Adobe Acrobat 9 and Adobe Reader 9 a new geospatial feature set was introduced. Over at the shredding the document blog a nice intro to all the geospatial functionality is given. Read on to learn how to find locations and coordinates, markup, and measure within Reader. The author goes on to list this added detail of functionality:

In Acrobat Pro Extended for Windows you can actually author PDF Map files. You can do this in a few ways.

1. Open a Tiff or Jpeg 2000 file that contains geospatial information in Acrobat Pro Extended. The resulting PDF file that is saved will retain this information.
2. From a Map image file (scanned or already in PDF/image format) if you know the map projection and some coordinate information you can use Acrobat’s Geospatial Registration tool to add coordinate information to the PDF.
3. Add Shape (SHP) files to a PDF file using the Import Layer functionality. This allows the PDF document author a way to create viewable layers on a map that can be turned on and off in the Layers Panel.

For more on R9 see here