Adena at Directions Magazine shared the Mozilla announcement that Geode is coming. Geode is a geolocation add-on for Firefox which will enable localized content. ReadWriteWeb describes it as a tool that “understands location, enabling enriched, personalized, and localized content" and VentureBeat explains it’s a location determination tool, built on the W3C spec, upon which developers can build. There are still many more questions about the exact capabilities of Geode, but it looks like it could be an interesting tool for your browser.

SlashGeo talks about the importance of GeoPresence, based on a piece by Ron Lake of Galdos, Inc. Ron said, “…a GeoPresence might be thought of as a visual and behavioural representative for yourself or your organization, not in a complete world of fantasy such as Second Life, but in some sort of approximation of the real world, the Virtual World. Furthermore, we can expect that this GeoPresence will reflect you or your organization more or less in real time.”

Karen Siderelis was named the first geographic officer (GIO) for the Department of Interior. Siderelis will guide the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), which coordinates the federal government’s GIS activities to provide information to people.

The MetaCarta Public Sector User Group established geotagging crime reports as one of the key applications realized by public safety organizations at their meeting yesterday. They highlighted the North Texas Fusion Centers (NTFC) as an example of how the police were able to detect cross border weapons along geographic corridors of the Texas and Mexico border by geotagging the reports to see how crime travels.

ITT released its first, color half-meter ground resolution image taken from the GeoEye-1 satellite. Check out the fusion image ‘created from blending the 0.41m panchromatic image and the 1.65m color image.’

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