A distance-driven tax service, with the distance calculated by onboard GPS receivers, to replace the annual road tax on cars has been initiated by the Dutch government.

SuperGeo has obtained the Taiwanese patent on the Internet Map Cache Technology. The name of the patent is “Geographic Information System”, No. 316671.

Federal government employees can now easily purchase ESRI ArcGIS Online services on Apps.gov, the United States General Services Administration's (GSA) source for cloud-based IT services.