The SIG-LR 2010 Convention was held on March 18, 2010 in Montpellier, France, on the theme of "A SIG can also be used to create maps". 
We attended and presented before an attentive audience some of the new developments of Géoclip Server, with the integration of the TJS standard.
We also unveiled the first preview of the upcoming new release of Géoclip O3. We will give you more details very soon. 

The Ministry of the Interior publishes the official results of elections. When those numbers are published they are integrated into France Découverte, under Elections.
The wide range of tools the Géoclip Server offers lets users build their own analysis of the results, from the most global vision (departments or regions) to the finest level (municipalities). 
The results of the 2010 French regional elections are on line.

This year we got a visit from Santa with a bag full of public statistical data: all the data freely available from the population census.
We selected a subset of the data to update the France découverte database. Our showcase application contains other new items which we bring to you this New Year in hopes that your year will also be colorful!

We are preparing surprises of a more spectacular kind with a new version of Géoclip Server.

emc³ continues to grow: to fill the space available to us in our new offices and to deal with an increasing workload, our team now has four employees.
Thibault became acquainted with Géoclip in his last year of school at the University of Quebec in Montreal. He did his internship with us during which he built a new European statistical atlas among other things. Our collaboration was very positive and we are happy to continue it!

The Kansas Health Institute has published its annual report "Kansas County Health Ranking 2009" based on a production of Géoclip Server built with the support of our North-American partner Géo-Stat.

This application is a break from traditional methods in France:  the map indicators are ranks rather than quantities or rates. This lets them rank counties according to various criteria. Results tables display detailed profiles of each county.

Ten years ago exactly, Eric began his information systems consulting activity. Since that time emc³ has come a long way and Géoclip is being used world-wide!
Eric's office no longer occupies one room of the house: we have now moved in to our new professional offices built custom for our needs. You can visit us on site if you have the opportunity, we welcome visitors.

We also salute our friends at GéoRezo who are also turning ten in 2009 and who were kind enough to invite Eric to blog on Info'bulle (thank you Bruno!)

If you have explored our site, tried the many examples featured on-line (here or there) and have further questions, please contact us and we'll be happy to assist you.

We can give you a custom presentation as a webinar. All you need is internet access, there is no need to travel.

We presented Géoclip Server at the SIG-la-Lettre (SIG Newsletter) Conference on Thursday, May 14th, in Marne-la-Vallée.

Géo-Stat is showing great promise in the American market. Its first project, Q-dart, is now up and running at Rand Health, the health branch of Rand Corporation. It is an innovating tool that aims to outline disparities in access to health care in California, as it correlates to social-economic criteria. Dashboards (see opposite) let you compare a selected zone to a reference profile.

A second project is starting for KHI, Kansas Health Institute. More on that later.

On the other side of the pond, in Spain, Gekko just received an award for one of its productions.
In the local lingo: « una web pionera que permite consultar a golpe de ratón la evolución de las principales causas de muerte en los municipios andaluces desde 1981 desarrollada por la Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública ha obtenido el XVII Premio Hipatia, que otorga anualmente la Sociedad Española de Salud Pública. »

In our lingo: the Andalusia Public Health School has received, for the interactive Atlas of mortality in Andalusia, the 17th prize Hipatia, awarded by the Spanish Society for Public Health.
We discussed this atlas here. For more information, click here or here.

The Gallery heading offers a wide collection of atlases mostly built from Géoclip Server, and in a few cases from Géoclip Solo.
Two entries are entirely new:
 An Atlas of the Greater London, based on the maps of Ordnance Survey (including background) and on the indicators of the Office For National Statistics.
 An Atlas of Spain (our new "Spanish Dancer" ) produced in partnership with Gekko.
We are always looking for publicly available statistical and geographical data upon which to build new atlases.

Following WMS, WFS, WPS, etc. a new standard will most likely introduce a major new step: The 0.12 GLS specification is published on the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) site with a call for comments.
It is known as the Request for Comments phase (RFC) and precedes final adoption. This Request for Comments phase ends on March 1, 2009.
GLS is, among other things, a data exchange