As construction continues on the new National Geospatial Intelligence Agency headquarters on the city's near northside, the St. Louis region is being hailed as a leader in geospatial technology and it will host the GEOINT Symposium in October, the largest annual gathering of geospatial intelligence professionals in the U.S.

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