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03 juin 2011
21:52
Geospatial Science and Technology Policy: New Congressional Research Service Reports on Geospatial Technology for the Nation
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As highlighted by Steven Aftergood in Secrecy News, June 3, 2011: Policy issues surrounding the use of geospatial information are examined in two new reports from the Congressional Research Service. … “The federal government and policy makers increasingly use geospatial information and tools like GIS for producing floodplain maps, conducting the census, mapping foreclosures, congressional [...]
21:36
June 2011 Geospatial Conferences and Events
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GIS related conferences, events, and workshops during the month of June, 2011. Additional conference dates are available here. June 7 Event Title – Public Health Geographic Information Systems Online Certificate Webinar Location - Online Web site -� [www.uic.edu] Event Date - Tuesday, June 7, 2011 Event Time - 12 to 1 p.m. central time Contact - phgis@uic.edu | 312-355-0423 [...]
20:52
Google Geonews: Sony Project Shiphunt, Brussels in 3D, Tracking Dengue Fever, The End of Anonymous Shopping, and more
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Here's the recent Google-related geonews.

From the official sources:
- Here's an entry on Belgium's Brussels in 3D in Google Earth, named Europe’s best kept secret revealed in 3D
- Google updated the Help Center of Google Map Maker
- Google is updating their maps data from authoritative sources for France, Monaco and Luxembourg
- Google shared an entry named using search patterns to track dengue fever
- Google's Ed Parsons shared his Location Business Summit slides, a presentation named "Making the most of place", Google Places, of course
From other sources:
- Here's a 3D model of Joplin tornado debris
- Slashdot ran a discussion named Google Wallet: the End of Anonymous Shopping, about the probable upcoming systematic location tracking of all purchases
- It seems Apple Just Renewed Maps and Search Partnership with Google
- The GEB has an entry named Space Archeologists discovering egyptian tombs
- The same site is also enthusiastic about Sony's Project Shiphunt, a fun game using Google Ocean
- And there was a new imagery update on May 31th
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20:52
Slashgeo.org: Google Geonews: Sony Project Shiphunt, Brussels in 3D, Tracking Dengue Fever, The End of Anonymous Shopping, and more
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Here's the recent Google-related geonews.

From the official sources:
- Here's an entry on Belgium's Brussels in 3D in Google Earth, named Europe’s best kept secret revealed in 3D
- Google updated the Help Center of Google Map Maker
- Google is updating their maps data from authoritative sources for France, Monaco and Luxembourg
- Google shared an entry named using search patterns to track dengue fever
- Google's Ed Parsons shared his Location Business Summit slides, a presentation named "Making the most of place", Google Places, of course
From other sources:
- Here's a 3D model of Joplin tornado debris
- Slashdot ran a discussion named Google Wallet: the End of Anonymous Shopping, about the probable upcoming systematic location tracking of all purchases
- It seems Apple Just Renewed Maps and Search Partnership with Google
- The GEB has an entry named Space Archeologists discovering egyptian tombs
- The same site is also enthusiastic about Sony's Project Shiphunt, a fun game using Google Ocean
- And there was a new imagery update on May 31th
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20:25
NSGIC News: Final Call for Content: NSGIC 2011 Annual Conference
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This is the final call for presentations for the 2011 Annual Conference. The deadline to submit is June 10, 2011.

Please consider submitting an abstract for the conference. There are three different types of presentations at the NSGIC Annual:
- Ignite session – an Ignite Session consists of 4 to 7 presenters, each giving a seven-minute presentation. Time for questions/answers is allocated after all the presentations are complete. Your presentation cannot take more than 7 minutes and should have no more than 20 slides.
- Panel Discussion – a Panel discussion consists of 2 or more speakers that give a short introduction to a topic followed by a vigorous discussion on the topic.
- Traditional Presentation – A traditional presentation is a 15 to 30 minute presentation on a single theme. Speakers are typically grouped together in a 90 or 120 minute slot on the agenda.
The focused content items for this year’s conference includes (but is not limited to):
- NextGen 911
- Wildfire – Planning/Mitigation/Suppression
- Structures
- Science Applications
- Alternative Energy / Renewable Energy
- Native Names Project (keynote)
- Broadband / Address points
- Mobile Workforce / Extended workplace
- For the Nation Initiative
- Non-traditional GIS users - Social Media/NGOs/NPOs
- Real Property Management
- Geospatial Preparedness
- Multi-jurisdictional Collaboration
When submitting a presentation, please include the following: Presenter’s name, contact info (email, cell phone) title, organization, presentation title and a 2 – 3 sentence abstract. Please remember to list the presentation type (ignite, panel, traditional).

Remember, NSGIC does not pay for travel and all presenters are expected to register for the conference.

Please send your submissions to the conference chair:

Tony Spicci

Tony.Spicci@mdc.mo.gov

573.882.9909 x3295
20:24
Slashgeo.org: Microsoft Bing Maps Streetside Display Updated
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Earlier this week Microsoft announced changes to the way Bing Maps Streetside is displayed by desktop browsers.

The introduction of the announcement: "If you take a look at a Bing map in Streetside view today you will notice that we’ve made a lot of changes. These changes represent a significant enhancement for desktop browsers, enabling you to quickly pan up and down the street to see the neighborhood and find businesses. We are doing this by providing street level panoramas so you can take a virtual walk through the streets with a view of locations and landmarks. As you slide the street level imagery sideways, the view of the sidewalk is seamlessly constructed including an overlay of business listings, street names and store fronts. Check it out in a flat, straight, New York street, or a steep, twisty, San Francisco one."

A screenshot of what it looks like:

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19:15
Spatial Sustain: Urban Earth Provides a Compelling View of Cities
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As part of the Geography Collective’s outreach about place and the importance of geography, they have created URBAN EARTH as a means to document and visualize some of the word’s biggest urban areas. The project is a video documentary of an urban transect, with photos taken every eight steps across each city. To date the [...]
18:27
Open Source Computing and GIS in the UK: Conference Organisation for Beginners
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I’ve been attending the AGI GeoCommunity Conference here in the UK for a few years now- and this year the AGI kindly asked me if I would sit on the working group for organising GeoCommunity 2011. Being completely new to conference organisation, and wanting to get some experience for the glorious day when OSGeo:UK holds FOSS4G in the UK, I jumped at the chance. This year’s event takes place from September 20-22nd, in Nottingham (a departure from previous years, where it has been in Stratford-upon-Avon), but the working group has met a couple of times already to get things organised. To be honest, the AGI team themselves do most of the hard work, along with the Conference Chair, but the working group decides on things like keynote and plenary speakers, assesses the papers, and decides on really important things like the theme for the party. At the event itself, I understand we have the exciting business of stuffing all the conference bags with flyers, as well as being visible through the event to help people out, moderate sessions, keep speakers to time etc.

Last week we all met in Nottingham to work through the paper selection. This year, around 80 abstracts were received, for approximately 50 slots. The AGI uses a blind marking process for selecting papers, so we all received the abstracts with the names and any organisational details removed and had to rank them in order. This is remarkably hard to do! It’s quite easy to identify the best and the worst papers, but deciding on the relative merits of (say) papers 53-67 is very difficult. It’s also hard to be objective about this kind of thing- everyone has their own particular likes and dislikes, and their own area of expertise. However, with a working group that represents a diverse range of interests, we did end up with a reasonable consensus at the end of this process. After the blind marking, considerably more paper shuffling took place to get a balanced set of conference streams. Grouping papers into coherent sessions and balancing out speakers was probably the hardest part of the whole process (yes, by now we knew the authors names!). The whole process was a lot of fun, including the occasional acts of sabotage as papers were (literally) stolen from one stream to go into another.

In a completely non-scientific assessment of the abstracts- “openness” was reasonably popular, although perhaps more from an open/crowd sourced data perspective rather than open source software. In the final programme, however, open source software gets a mention in a number of papers spread across pretty much all of the streams. With hindsight I’m happy that this is the right approach as it avoids ghetto-ising open source solutions rather than presenting them as viable solutions to every day problems. The whole open/crowd-sourced data debate does get its own stream though, as it’s such a popular topic at the moment.

All in all, I have to say I’m in awe of the AGI staff who make all of this look so easy. I’m also really looking forward to the event, as the programme looks really good, and the new venue should be fantastic. If you’re interested, early bird bookings are available till the end of July. For those that know about the now infamous AGI soap-box georant- it’s new location will be superb…

18:27
Jo Cook: Conference Organisation for Beginners
sur Planet OSGeo

I’ve been attending the AGI GeoCommunity Conference here in the UK for a few years now- and this year the AGI kindly asked me if I would sit on the working group for organising GeoCommunity 2011. Being completely new to conference organisation, and wanting to get some experience for the glorious day when OSGeo:UK holds FOSS4G in the UK, I jumped at the chance. This year’s event takes place from September 20-22nd, in Nottingham (a departure from previous years, where it has been in Stratford-upon-Avon), but the working group has met a couple of times already to get things organised. To be honest, the AGI team themselves do most of the hard work, along with the Conference Chair, but the working group decides on things like keynote and plenary speakers, assesses the papers, and decides on really important things like the theme for the party. At the event itself, I understand we have the exciting business of stuffing all the conference bags with flyers, as well as being visible through the event to help people out, moderate sessions, keep speakers to time etc.

Last week we all met in Nottingham to work through the paper selection. This year, around 80 abstracts were received, for approximately 50 slots. The AGI uses a blind marking process for selecting papers, so we all received the abstracts with the names and any organisational details removed and had to rank them in order. This is remarkably hard to do! It’s quite easy to identify the best and the worst papers, but deciding on the relative merits of (say) papers 53-67 is very difficult. It’s also hard to be objective about this kind of thing- everyone has their own particular likes and dislikes, and their own area of expertise. However, with a working group that represents a diverse range of interests, we did end up with a reasonable consensus at the end of this process. After the blind marking, considerably more paper shuffling took place to get a balanced set of conference streams. Grouping papers into coherent sessions and balancing out speakers was probably the hardest part of the whole process (yes, by now we knew the authors names!). The whole process was a lot of fun, including the occasional acts of sabotage as papers were (literally) stolen from one stream to go into another.

In a completely non-scientific assessment of the abstracts- “openness” was reasonably popular, although perhaps more from an open/crowd sourced data perspective rather than open source software. In the final programme, however, open source software gets a mention in a number of papers spread across pretty much all of the streams. With hindsight I’m happy that this is the right approach as it avoids ghetto-ising open source solutions rather than presenting them as viable solutions to every day problems. The whole open/crowd-sourced data debate does get its own stream though, as it’s such a popular topic at the moment.

All in all, I have to say I’m in awe of the AGI staff who make all of this look so easy. I’m also really looking forward to the event, as the programme looks really good, and the new venue should be fantastic. If you’re interested, early bird bookings are available till the end of July. For those that know about the now infamous AGI soap-box georant- it’s new location will be superb…

17:33
GEOS 3.3.0 Released
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

With GEOS 3.2 released in 2009, it's nice to have GEOS 3.3.0 now released. This link also provide details on the JTS features missing in GEOS. Here's the full change list for GEOS 3.3.0. In short, in addition to the usual bug fixes, "this release introduces a fair amount of new C-API interfaces and a brand new PHP binding."

A reminder of what GEOS is: "GEOS (Geometry Engine – Open Source) is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite (JTS). As such, it aims to contain the complete functionality of JTS in C++. This includes all the OpenGIS Simple Features for SQL spatial predicate functions and spatial operators, as well as specific JTS enhanced topology functions. GEOS is available under the terms of GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)."

It was just last week that we announced the JSTS project, the JavaScript port of the JTS.

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17:33
Slashgeo.org: GEOS 3.3.0 Released
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With GEOS 3.2 released in 2009, it's nice to have GEOS 3.3.0 now released. This link also provide details on the JTS features missing in GEOS. Here's the full change list for GEOS 3.3.0. In short, in addition to the usual bug fixes, "this release introduces a fair amount of new C-API interfaces and a brand new PHP binding."

A reminder of what GEOS is: "GEOS (Geometry Engine - Open Source) is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite (JTS). As such, it aims to contain the complete functionality of JTS in C++. This includes all the OpenGIS Simple Features for SQL spatial predicate functions and spatial operators, as well as specific JTS enhanced topology functions. GEOS is available under the terms of GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)."

It was just last week that we announced the JSTS project, the JavaScript port of the JTS.
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17:33
Slashgeo (FOSS articles): GEOS 3.3.0 Released
sur Planet OSGeo

With GEOS 3.2 released in 2009, it's nice to have GEOS 3.3.0 now released. This link also provide details on the JTS features missing in GEOS. Here's the full change list for GEOS 3.3.0. In short, in addition to the usual bug fixes, "this release introduces a fair amount of new C-API interfaces and a brand new PHP binding."

A reminder of what GEOS is: "GEOS (Geometry Engine - Open Source) is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite (JTS). As such, it aims to contain the complete functionality of JTS in C++. This includes all the OpenGIS Simple Features for SQL spatial predicate functions and spatial operators, as well as specific JTS enhanced topology functions. GEOS is available under the terms of GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)."

It was just last week that we announced the JSTS project, the JavaScript port of the JTS.
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17:26
got geoint?: Friday’s Food for Thought: Lost and Found — How to Find People and More
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Welcome to the Friday’s Food for Thought post from got geoint? As always, we hope you had such a productive week that you feel the urgent need to take a few minutes and engage in some entertaining (we, like to think it’s enlightening) content in today’s FFFT post. So, we know that the basis of GEOINT is all about finding stuff. So, what about consumer GEOINT focused on finding people? This could be tracking down a long lost love, a family member or even birth parents. The reality is that technology allows us to be one-click away from finding that person. We will explore this topic and much more in today’s FFFT post. Happy Friday!

List of the Best People Search Engines
This is a list of people search engines and websites that typically allow users to search for persons in various different ways including searching by first name, last name, phone number, address, social security number, employment history and more. Some of the web sites listed only return results from typical public records while other aggregate records from multiple websites and display them in one central location. Use these websites to search for people online. Stalkers need not apply.

Facebook: Daughter Reunited With Birth Parents After 29 Years
Jill MacInnes began shaking as she deplaned at Atlanta’s airport on Thursday. For more than 10 years she’d wanted to meet her birth family, but her adoptive sister’s disappointing experience with meeting her own birth family made her hesitate. Now, the meeting was on her list of things to do before her 30th birthday this June. With that moment finally drawing near, MacInnes became filled with a mixture of excitement and nervousness after the five-hour flight from her Seattle home. Thinking only of the impending meeting and the father who had given her up for adoption 29 years ago, MacInnes began walking. She didn’t realize she could ride the airport tram from one concourse to the next, so the walk took her longer than usual. She stopped in a restroom along the way to compose herself. Read more about this reunion via Facebook here.

Why Is People Search So Lame? (Conversely)
Searching Google for John Q. Public in Alabama or Jane Q. Citizen in Massachusetts? Good luck. A proliferation of data brokers, people search engines, and social networks have made the task of finding a person’s phone number and address via a Google search (or a search on any other major search engine) a minefield of less-than-useful links. When you use Google to search for a name, why do data aggregator sites such as Intelius.com, MyLife.com (formerly Reunion.com), and Spokeo often appear at the top of the results page? Rather than save you a step and provide a person’s name, address, and phone number–a Google White Pages, if you will–the world’s biggest search provider directs to you a motley crew of third-party sites that typically offer the information for a price. Read more from PC World here.

Be Sure to Check out WhereDCCamp!
Not that this has anything to do with finding people, we wanted to let you all know about WhereCampDC, which is an unconference on June 10th and 11th, 2011 for people fascinated by place and the intersection of geography and technology. Please be sure to join this event in the nation’s capital hosted at National Geographic and The Washington Post. It will be an eclectic crowd ranging from geospatial professionals, open source developers, imagery analysts, urban cartographers, open data/gov hackers, locative media artists, augmented reality developers, and modeling theorists. The event is free to attend and participation is strongly encouraged. Learn more here.

The Clash – Lost in Supermarket
We pretty much jump on every opportunity to feature a song by The Clash, even if it’s a bit of a stretch in terms of lining up with the theme of the post. This time, we are featuring one of our favorite songs “Lost in the Supermarket,” which is about being lost in the supermarket as a metaphor for being lost in life. Here it is and Happy Friday!
17:15
Slashgeo.org: Review of the "Python Geospatial Development" Book
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Geoweb Guru offers a review of the book "Python Geospatial Development" by Erik Westra.

From the review: "Python is ideal for "swiss army knife" geospatial operations, but the book concentrates on the development of applications including geospatial databases and Django-based geospatial web applications. [...] All things considered, this is an excellent introduction to geospatial processing with Python. It leans towards building web applications, but should also be useful for people working offline. The book is an overview, and should introduce the various libraries, and applications. However, coverage is quite shallow in places. For example, it might show you how to use Python with PostGIS and GDAL/OGR, but you will need to look elsewhere for good coverage of PostGIS and GDAL/OGR topics."

A search will reveal that Python is often mentioned along with geospatial. GeoDjango was also mentioned a few times.

On Amazon: Python Geospatial Development
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16:24
Spatial Sustain: What role will robotics play in the future of mapmaking?
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Automation has been a huge driver for the move to all-digital workflows in mapmaking, with automated cartography as the accepted name for this revolution prior to the creation of geographic information systems. To date, the automated storage and processing of geospatial data has greatly improved the speed and efficiency for creating consistently accurate maps and [...]

16:00
Tracking Bike Accidents with Google Maps
sur Google Maps Mania

San Francisco Bike Accident Tracker 2.0

The Bay Citizen has improved their Google Map of bike accidents in the Bay Area. The map now includes five years of bike accident statistics for the whole Bay Area.

Cyclists can use the map to find out where accident hot-spots are located. It is also possible to filter the data shown on the map by date, road conditions and accident type.

As well as displaying the accident data with Google Maps the Bay Citizen has also created a series of charts exploring bike accidents in the Bay Area.

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15:32
Avenza Resources Blog: Optimizing Adobe Illustrator Documents with MAPublisher for Geospatial PDF Export
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Avenza Resources Blog: Optimizing Adobe Illustrator Documents with MAPublisher for Geospatial PDF Export
15:30
Google Earth Blog: 3D model of Joplin tornado debris
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Not long ago, we showed you some fresh imagery from Joplin, MO, after they were hit by that devastating tornado.

Steve Ansari from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) recently sent us an amazing file that shows debris from the tornado in a 3D model!

You can view it yourself using this KMZ file.

A report was recently released from NCDC which gives a summary on the Joplin event and includes a flash movie showing the visualization in Google Earth.

The software used to create the KMZ file is the NOAA Weather and Climate Toolkit, which is developed at NCDC.

Here is a bit more about how this works, in Steve's words:

The Radar site conducts conical sweeps at increasing elevations off the ground and measures the 'reflectivity' of particles in the atmosphere. Large rain drops, hail, and in this case debris are represented as high reflectivity values and it is 'reflectivity' which we are most accustomed to seeing on television and internet weather maps. Each sweep is represented as a COLLADA model with the semi-transparent Reflectivity image draped on the model. In addition, several isosurfaces are created from the 3D reflectivity volume and represented as polygons in the KML. A tour is also included in the KMZ.

15:21
Compte-rendu des Assises du Géomarketing 2011
sur GeoConcept

Cliquez pour télécharger le compte-rendu

15:15
Revue de presse de la semaine
sur Geotribu

C'est une semaine plutôt calme dans le petit monde du GeoWeb. Néanmoins, nous avons tout de même glané quelques infos intéressantes.

en lire plus

15:05

Le compte-rendu des Assises du Géomarketing est disponible !

sur GeoConcept

15:03
Report: National Academy of Public Administration’s Forum on Place-based Public Management – All Points Blog
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by Joe Francica, Directions Magazine, Monday, May 23, 2011 The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) in Washington, DC convened a forum on Place-based Public Management today [May 20, 2011]. The event featured several key government policy experts that commented on placed-based initiatives, a key priority of the Obama administration. … The panel of experts was [...]

13:28
Friday Fun with Google Maps
sur Google Maps Mania

Google Maps Tilt Shift

Street View Funny found this Google Maps 'bird's eye' view image that has a nice tilt shift effect.

The effect has been created accidentally because of the juxtaposition of some blurred map tiles next to some clearer tiles. However it is possible for Google to actually reproduce this effect on the fly on oblique view imagery by creating a blurring filter with the canvas element on individual map tiles.

Now that would be an interesting use of a Googler's 20% time (hint).

Street View House Blurring
In Germany Google have given home owners the option to have their houses blurred out in Street View. A regional DIY store created a clever campaign around the idea of house blurring in Street View to promote their business.

Flat Earth

Joemonster.org has discovered that if you zoom out on Google Maps you will find that the world is flat after all. My attempts to reproduce this on Google Maps have failed miserably. However the site did capture this screenshot so I'm sure it must be true.

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13:24
Des cyberespaces aux espaces réels
sur Les Cafés géographiques

La ferme virtuelle devient réalité
Farmville : au départ, un jeu proposé par le réseau social « Facebook ». Les détenteurs d'un compte peuvent se récréer de leur vie citadine stressante en s'amusant sur ce jeu de simulation en temps réel qui leur propose de cultiver et développer leur « lopin de terre » virtuel en vendant des récoltes fictives pour pouvoir échanger des « Farms Coins » (la monnaie du jeu) contre des arbres, des animaux ou encore des bâtiments. Ce jeu, très populaire, nous donne à voir la représentation (...)

13:11
Les sociétés vieillissantes changent la face du monde
sur Les blogs du Diplo - Visions cartographiques

Depuis la seconde guerre mondiale, on assiste à un vieillissement accéléré de la population des pays industrialisés. La part relative des 65 ans ou plus a bondi de moitié dans les pays avancés, culminant à 22,6% de la population totale au Japon. Elle atteint 13% en Amérique du Nord et 16% pour l'ensemble de l'Europe. S'appuyant sur la persistance de la poussée démographique actuelle, selon le scénario le plus probable, l'Organisation des Nations unies (ONU) estime que le nombre de personnes âgées (de (...) - Visions cartographiques / Démographie, Société, Population
13:11
Les sociétés vieillissantes changent la face du monde
sur Les blogs du Diplo - Visions cartographiques

Depuis la seconde guerre mondiale, on assiste à un vieillissement accéléré de la population des pays industrialisés. La part relative des 65 ans ou plus a bondi de moitié dans les pays avancés, culminant à 22,6% de la population totale au Japon. Elle atteint 13% en Amérique du Nord et 16% pour l'ensemble de l'Europe. S'appuyant sur la persistance de la poussée démographique actuelle, selon le scénario le plus probable, l'Organisation des Nations unies (ONU) estime que le nombre de personnes âgées (de (...) - Visions cartographiques / Démographie, Société, Population

12:35
Linfiniti Geo Blog: WebGL 3D Globe anyone/
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Here is a really nice project for you FOSSGIS fans out there: ‘Godzi‘. Created by Pelicanmapping.com (the creators or osgEarth), Godzi is a javascript and webGL implementation of a 3D browsable earth. Take a look at their demo (screenshot below).

Godzi in action

Of course my QGIS self is now thinking ‘Oh cool we can use this to publish maps to a 3D web globe using QGIS Mapserver!’. Something to add to the todo list for the fledgling QGIS web client project.

12:35
Tim Sutton: WebGL 3D Globe anyone/
sur Planet OSGeo

Here is a really nice project for you FOSSGIS fans out there: ‘Godzi‘. Created by Pelicanmapping.com (the creators or osgEarth), Godzi is a javascript and webGL implementation of a 3D browsable earth. Take a look at their demo (screenshot below).

Godzi in action

Of course my QGIS self is now thinking ‘Oh cool we can use this to publish maps to a 3D web globe using QGIS Mapserver!’. Something to add to the todo list for the fledgling QGIS web client project.

11:51
Animal Cruelty on Google Maps
sur Google Maps Mania

Factory Farm Investigations Mapped

Animal Visuals has used Google Maps to show the locations of factory farms that animal protection groups have exposed for cruelty to animals. The map displays farms where animals have been found to be living in filthy conditions,intensively confined for their entire lives and other 'criminal acts of animal torture'.

The map also highlights the states that have drafted agriculture gagging legislation, that if passed will impose criminal penalties for creating audio or visual recordings of agriculture operations.

If you click on any of the animal map markers you can click through to view the video of the undercover investigation carried out by animal protection groups at that farm.

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11:33
All Points Blog: Quote of the Week – 6/3/11
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

"But Location Labs is showing that you don’t have to be hip to make money in location." - Ryan Kim, writing at GigaOm about Location Labs push to be "the first big location-based service IPO." ... Continue reading

11:33
Quote of the Week - 6/3/11
sur All Points Blog

"But Location Labs is showing that you don’t have to be hip to make money in location." - Ryan Kim, writing at GigaOm about Location Labs push to be "the first big location-based service IPO." ... Continue reading

11:25
Concours "Storytelling with Maps"
sur arcOrama, un blog sur les SIG, ceux d ESRI en particulier

Vous avez réalisé une Web Map ou une application mobile (iOS, Windows Phone ou Android) qui rend compte d'un événement, d'un phénomène, d'une étude, … ? Alors pourquoi pas participer au concours "Storytelling with Maps" organisé dans le cadre de la conférence mondiale des utilisateurs Esri 2011 qui aura lieu à San Diego en juillet prochain. Pour mémoire, une Web Map est un mashup de différents

11:14
All Points Blog: Health GIS Tidbits – 6/3/11
sur Planet Geospatial - http://planetgs.com

Another asthma related to traffic study using GIS: Our study revealed a significant 24% increase in the risk of experiencing multiple emergency department contacts for asthma for every log-unit of traffic exposure. This study provides support for the hypothesis that traffic... Continue reading

11:14
Health GIS Tidbits - 6/3/11
sur All Points Blog

Another asthma related to traffic study using GIS: Our study revealed a significant 24% increase in the risk of experiencing multiple emergency department contacts for asthma for every log-unit of traffic exposure. This study provides support for the hypothesis that traffic... Continue reading

10:40

Linfiniti Geo Blog: USB Recovery Script

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What do you do when you are managing a remote server and you need to make some critical changes (like to the networking configs) and you feel uncomfortable about the possibility of losing access to the server and never getting it back? This was the situation we were in today. The server is a little esoteric – its a headless box and even in the server center the engineers don’t have any way to log in interactively at the server itself. Luckily the server is running Debian linux and has a usb port so help is at hand via bash!

I wrote this little script which is designed to be run from a cron job, for example every minute.

#!/bin/bash

# This script is to rescue the system from usb while
# testing migration to the new vpn.

# It will mount the last partition of any inserted usb,
# cd to the mount point and try to run a script
# called 'rescue.sh'
# After the script is run it will be renamed to
# rescue.ok
#
# You should set this script to run as a cron job
# at minute intervals.
#
# e.g. # m h  dom mon dow   command
#      * * * * * /root/usbrescue.sh
#

RESCUEFILE=rescue.sh
OKFILE=rescue.ok
LOGFILE=rescue.log
MOUNTPOINT=/mnt/rescue
SCRIPTPATH=${MOUNTPOINT}/${RESCUEFILE}
OKPATH=${MOUNTPOINT}/${OKFILE}
LOGPATH=${MOUNTPOINT}/${LOGFILE}
# Note we ignore partitions on devices sda - sdd as they are internal disks
LASTPARTITION=$(cat /proc/partitions  | awk '{print $4}' | grep -v 'sd[a-d]' \
| grep -v name | grep -v '^$' |sort | tail -1)
if [ $LASTPARTITION != "" ]
then
  if [ ! -b /dev/$LASTPARTITION ]
  then
    echo "Error /dev/$LASTPARTITION is not a block device"
    exit
  else
    echo "OK /dev/$LASTPARTITION is a block device"
  fi
  echo "Device found creating mount point"
  if [ ! -d "$MOUNTPOINT" ]
  then
    mkdir $MOUNTPOINT
  fi
  echo "Mounting...."
  mount /dev/$LASTPARTITION $MOUNTPOINT
  echo "Checking if rescue script exists"
  # Test the rescue script exists(-e) and is not 0 length (-s)
  if [ -e $SCRIPTPATH -a -s $SCRIPTPATH ]
  then
    echo "Making $SCRIPTPATH executable"
    chmod +x $SCRIPTPATH
    echo "Running script"
    $SCRIPTPATH > $LOGPATH 2>&1
    echo "Disabling script"
    mv $SCRIPTPATH $OKPATH
  else
    echo "No Rescue script found"
  fi
  echo "Unmounting.."
  cd /
  umount $MOUNTPOINT
else
  echo "No rescue device found"
fi
echo "done"

If you place the script in /root/usbrescue.sh and add a cron job as outlined in the comments, it will poll for devices regularly, mount the last partition available. If it finds a script on that partition labelled rescue.sh, it will run it then rename the script to rescue.ok and write any stderror and stdout logs to rescue.log on the partition. The script could perhaps be improved by adding a lock file so that it does not get run again if it is already running (if it takes longer than a minute to run for example), buts its a good starting point for a system rescue if things go wrong. Now the engineer on site can simply pop in his usb stick and any recovery commands will be run from it.

10:40

Tim Sutton: USB Recovery Script

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I wrote this little script which is designed to be run from a cron job, for example every minute.

#!/bin/bash

# This script is to rescue the system from usb while
# testing migration to the new vpn.

# It will mount the last partition of any inserted usb,
# cd to the mount point and try to run a script
# called 'rescue.sh'
# After the script is run it will be renamed to
# rescue.ok
#
# You should set this script to run as a cron job
# at minute intervals.
#
# e.g. # m h  dom mon dow   command
#      * * * * * /root/usbrescue.sh
#

RESCUEFILE=rescue.sh
OKFILE=rescue.ok
LOGFILE=rescue.log
MOUNTPOINT=/mnt/rescue
SCRIPTPATH=${MOUNTPOINT}/${RESCUEFILE}
OKPATH=${MOUNTPOINT}/${OKFILE}
LOGPATH=${MOUNTPOINT}/${LOGFILE}
# Note we ignore partitions on devices sda - sdd as they are internal disks
LASTPARTITION=$(cat /proc/partitions  | awk '{print $4}' | grep -v 'sd[a-d]' \
| grep -v name | grep -v '^$' |sort | tail -1)
if [ $LASTPARTITION != "" ]
then
  if [ ! -b /dev/$LASTPARTITION ]
  then
    echo "Error /dev/$LASTPARTITION is not a block device"
    exit
  else
    echo "OK /dev/$LASTPARTITION is a block device"
  fi
  echo "Device found creating mount point"
  if [ ! -d "$MOUNTPOINT" ]
  then
    mkdir $MOUNTPOINT
  fi
  echo "Mounting...."
  mount /dev/$LASTPARTITION $MOUNTPOINT
  echo "Checking if rescue script exists"
  # Test the rescue script exists(-e) and is not 0 length (-s)
  if [ -e $SCRIPTPATH -a -s $SCRIPTPATH ]
  then
    echo "Making $SCRIPTPATH executable"
    chmod +x $SCRIPTPATH
    echo "Running script"
    $SCRIPTPATH > $LOGPATH 2>&1
    echo "Disabling script"
    mv $SCRIPTPATH $OKPATH
  else
    echo "No Rescue script found"
  fi
  echo "Unmounting.."
  cd /
  umount $MOUNTPOINT
else
  echo "No rescue device found"
fi
echo "done"

10:33
All Points Blog: Local (City/County/State) GIS Tidbits – 6/3/11
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sur Cartes et Cartographie / Maps and Mapping

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Images satellites des inondations de St-Jean-sur-Richelieu (Québec)
sur Cartes et Cartographie / Maps and Mapping

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