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24 mai 2012
19:43
Microsoft Wants You to Know…Bing Maps Now Using Nokia Backend for Traffic and Geocoding
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Building on the existing strategic partnership between Microsoft and Nokia, today we’re announcing that Bing Maps is now using Nokia backend services for Traffic and Geocoding. With the goal of helping get places faster and get more done, here are the key things Nokia services will do... Continue reading
19:43
Microsoft Wants You to Know..Bing Maps Now Using Nokia Backend for Traffic and Geocoding
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Building on the existing strategic partnership between Microsoft and Nokia, today we’re announcing that Bing Maps is now using Nokia backend services for Traffic and Geocoding. With the goal of helping get places faster and get more done, here are the key things Nokia services... Continue reading
10:55
Students Prep for Dam Failure and other Education GIS
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Students from Indian Hills Community College [Iowa] Geo-spatial Technology class worked with the Army Corps of Engineers at Red Rock. The group made six maps utilizing data from the Corps of Engineers, Mahaska County GIS Coordinator Brian Knudtson, along with data from the Iowa... Continue reading
10:45
Singapore Land Authority’s OneMap Offers Gov and NGOs Crowdsourcing Tools
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In the U.S. we are still waiting to see how we might use Geoplatform.gov, but in Singapore the Land Authority (SLA) not only has its own OneMap, but now it has beta tools for government departments and non-governmental organizations to collect data via crowdsourcing via that map. One of... Continue reading
10:12
VentureBeat: Trimble Acquires Spime
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Spime? Spime specializes in GPS software platforms for use by smartphone app developers. Its MapMan LBS Platform integrates social and location services into GPS-enabled apps. Spime also offers a navigation service and map service under the names Northstar Nav and Northstar Map.... Continue reading
23 mai 2012
10:00
Dr. Oz Likes GIS and other Health GIS News
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Dr. Oz and his crew were in Philadelphia giving 15 minute physicals and compiling the data from them for the mayor. Medigadget did an interview with Oz's medical unit clinical event director, Mike Hoaglin and caught this gem about GIS. Medgadget: Are there any trends in medical... Continue reading
10:00
URISA’s Best Web GIS and other Open Source GIS News
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A City of Cornwall employee has been recognized for his efforts in creating a unique on-line mapping site for the City. GIS Applications Specialist Denis Lalonde of the City of Cornwall (Ontario, CA) received the gold medal prize in the Best Web GIS category of the Best Geographic... Continue reading
10:00
Google Renames Google Earth Engine, Offers Free License to Non-Profits
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We learned of the name change to Google Maps Engine at the Location Intelligence Conference, but I guess it was not the right venue to announce free licenses for non-profits. We didn’t think “Earth Builder” reflected the true capabilities of the product or vision that we have for... Continue reading
1:45
Location Intelligence 2012 - Photo Montage
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Here's a photo montage of the day's events taken at Directions Magazine's Location Intelligence Conference, May 22, 2012. ... Continue reading
22 mai 2012
17:42
Presentations Can Make Great Sessions, But so Can Good Questions! #LI12
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I've been moderating sessions today at the Location Intelligence Conference. I'm very pleased all my speakers have stayed within their time; it makes my life so much easier. It also means we have time for a good number of questions. The session on Embedded Geospatial Capabilities in... Continue reading
14:46
#LI12 Plenary Recap: The State of the Art
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The OnStar Story Jeff Joyner from OnStar General Motors started the day looking at one of the earliest location-based services, OnStar. It all started back in 1995 with a project then called Beacon. It morphed from a $2000 add-on for Cadallic owners in 1996, that supported some nine... Continue reading
10:00
Update: Patent Watch: Tracking People Via Cell without Compromising Privacy
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Jeremy Wood introduced readers to his method "for tracking cellphones to generate useful demographically-keyed data on the movement of people, without compromising anyone's privacy" back in 2009. Today his patent was granted; it's number 8185131. Will applications that use this... Continue reading
10:00
Univ of Malta GIS Summer School and other Education GIS News
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The fifth international summer school on Geographic Information Systems will be held between June 22 and 28 by the University of Malta's Institute for Sustainable Development in collaboration with the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering of University... Continue reading
21 mai 2012
19:09
HOT OSM Needs Some Hands to Digitize Refugee Camps from Imagery
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A unit at the State Deptarment has been working with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) to explore the use of OSM and its community in times of crisis. This week there's a proof of concept exercise mapping refugee camps in the Horn of Africa. How to help: We are going to open... Continue reading
10:57
CNN Reports on Aging Earth Observation Satellites
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In a brief report entitled "U.S. could lose aging eyes in the sky," CNN listed the challenges with aging earth observation satellite system this way: Tights budgets, growing costs and failed launches hurt satellite programs, report finds "We'll be hobbling through the year... Continue reading
18 mai 2012
21:25
NGA Staffer Who Enabled Bin Laden Capture Receives Bonus
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A staffer from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) was fetted with monetary bonuses for his work on the imagery analysis that led to the capture of Osama Bin Laden. Per Senior Executives Association spokeswoman Carol Bonosaro, who speaks on behalf of senior government... Continue reading
19:30
GITA Cancels Oil and Gas Conference; Board Examining Future of Organization
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The GITA website explains that its Oil and Gas Pipeline Conference, set for Oct 22-24 in Houston, has been cancelled. This would have been the 21st iteration of the event. The website text goes on to note the status of the organization is unclear: The GITA Board of Directors is... Continue reading
17 mai 2012
15:04
Three Geographers Recognized as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Peter Rogerson (State University of New York at Buffalo), John Kelmelis (Penn State University) and Daniel A. Griffith (University of Texas at Dallas) were recognized as 2011 Fellows by their peers for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its... Continue reading
11:47
Health and Human Services Dashboard and other Health GIS News
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today launched of the Health System Measurement Project, an extensive performance dashboard that provides data on about 50 U.S. health system measures, in an accessible, data-driven interactive experience. The breakthrough site, which... Continue reading
10:48
AP Uses TileMill, Leaflet in its New Zoomable Map Platform
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The Associated Press is leaving other mapping systems and Flash behind with a new HTML based map to be used for its interactive media offerings. Among the tools used are TileMill (to make the map tiles) and Leaflet (for the JavaScript interaction) according to Michelle... Continue reading
10:34
Iran to Sue Google over Naming of Water Body on Google Maps
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The concern is that the search company dropped the name Persian Gulf from the latest iteration of the online mapping system, Google Maps. Threats of legal action and serious damages have been made by Iranian officials if the name is not added back to the map. While Iranians prefer the... Continue reading
16 mai 2012
10:00
Michigan�s Center for Geospatial Medicine Gets Diabetes Grant and other Health GIS News
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The University of Michigan's Center for Geospatial Medicine will use a $9.8 million federal grant to study Type 2 diabetes in four under-served counties in North Carolina, Mississippi and West Virginia. It focuses on those enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health... Continue reading
10:00
Matchmaking for Higher Ed GIS Students and other Education GIS News
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EduContribution is a non-profit hoping to link up students with knowhow and non-profits with GIS needs (Directions Magazine coverage). The organization is looking for graduate students for a pilot project that will match them with a non-profit. The student will perform the work as part... Continue reading
15 mai 2012
19:12
Two Geographers Among National Geographics’ 15 Emerging Explorers
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There are many innovative and interesting people in the list of 15 people in the 2012 class of Emerging Explorers (11 men, 4 women for those counting). Each receives a $10,000 grant from National Geographic. I was happy to recognize two names with which I've become very... Continue reading
16:06
Top Social Media Influencer in Europe? Claim your Zebra Imaging Hologram of a Ford B-Max
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Over here in the U.S. the social media influence measuring "tool" is called Klout. In the UK there's a tool called PeerIndex. Here's the deal: If you have a high enough score in PeerIndex in influencing others in areas like cars, lifestyle, technology within Europe you can get a free... Continue reading
11:40
Summer Ushahidi Course and other Education GIS News
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Ushahidi: Frameworks for Effective Platform Management is a four-week, online course from TechChange, running this summer from June 4th – 29th. What has us most excited about this course is our approach toward one the highest-profile and most utilized programs in the current... Continue reading
10:00
Tell a MrSid Story for its 20th Anniversary and other GIS Competitions
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LizardTech is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the MrSID imagery format: We'll be hosting events throughout the year to celebrate MrSID's 20th anniversary. In the meantime, we’re holding a contest, inviting people like you – in fact, you – to say a word or two about how MrSID has... Continue reading
9:30
Free Software for Polling Location Maps and other Government GIS News
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This is interesting: the map of polling places in Hammond, Indiana is (1) made by the Hammond Sanitary District GIS Department and (2) built on free software (Google Maps), something worthy of note in the local paper. - The Times of Northwest Indiana ... Continue reading
14 mai 2012
20:52
Esri’s ArcGIS Online for Organizations Getting Closer to Release
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Esri's Director of Education, David DiBiase shared that Esri sales staff have been able to quote pricing for ArcGIS Online for Organizations (the product name is in flux) as of last Friday. The subscription offering allows organizations to skin the service, create and manage accounts and... Continue reading
10:00
Pew: 75% of Smartphone Users Get “Real Time” Location-based Information
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Here's the overview of the report (html, questions): A new report finds that 74% of smartphone owners use their phone to get real-time location-based information, and 18% use a geosocial service to “check in” to certain locations or share their location with friends. Over the... Continue reading
10:00
LightSquared Update - Bankruptcy Could be Monday - 5/14/12
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LightSquared officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Manhattan US Bankruptcy Court today. - endgadget ----original post 5/14/12 7 am EDT --- The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) is the source of comments by those in the know that it's unlikely that LightSquared and... Continue reading
10 mai 2012
17:14
U.S. House of Representatives Votes to Kill American Community Survey
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Last night the U.S. House passed an amendment to the 2013 Dept of Commerce funding bill that would eliminate the Census' American Community Survey, ACS. We know of ACS as the replacement for the long form; it's survey sent to a limited number of households not every ten years, but... Continue reading
15:05
Kickstarter: Zombie Based Geography Education
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Update: fully funded as of 5/11/12. Next goal is being considered. --- original post 5/10/12 --- Aimed at 5-8th graders, David Hunter of Seattle's project involves a curriculum based on a Zombie Apocalypse. He's NOT a geographer but seems to have done his homework. He's looking for... Continue reading
11:08
Google Maps for Android Gets Indoor Walking Directions, Deals
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The indoor directions are quite limited; they are available in select airports, malls, and other businesses in the U.S. and Japan. These are the complexes Google announced maps for last November. As for the deals, they include both "now" and "later" deals - but only in the... Continue reading
09 mai 2012
16:46
Pachube Gets Acquired, Gets New Name, Gets Real
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Pachube, a vision for integrating sensors to build the Internet of things (my understanding, its definition is below), was acquired by LogMein back last July. I missed that but did note the service back in 2008 (APB coverage). Today, the company now only announces a new spellable,... Continue reading
12:06
Invasive Species Mapping and other Crowdsourcing GIS News
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Locals in and around Saugerties, NY will add to iMapInvasives, New York’s online invasive species database, via a mapping party on May 8. The event starts at the Town of Saugerties Library for an orientation and brief training. Next the volunteers will carpool to the Esopus Creek... Continue reading
10:33
TCS to Offer HopStop Multi-modal Routing
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TeleCommunications Systems (TCS) is the "Intel inside" of many consumer mobile communications and navigation services. For that reason, few folks outside the industry have heard of the company. Its customers, carriers you have heard of, use TCS' platform for their branded navigation,... Continue reading
08 mai 2012
12:12
Latest CRS Report: More Work on Geospatial Data Management Needed
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The report by Peter Folger, Congressional Research Service Specialist in Energy and Natural Resources Policy, is titled Issues and Challenges for Federal Geospatial Information and dated April 27, 2012. (full report in PDF, via FAS since these reports are not automagically public...see... Continue reading
10:51
Wednesday is National Bike to School Day
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The National Center for Safe Routes to School and the League of American Bicyclists are behind the first-ever National Bike to School Day on May 9, 2012. There have been local and regional efforts in the past to celebrate a day of young people pedaling to school, but this is the first... Continue reading
10:32
Esri Story Map on Diabetes vs. Obesity and other Health GIS News
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Esri's recent map story explores the strong link between obesity and diabetes in the U.S. Nearly a third of Americans are obese. - via Esri communications USA Today rounds up medical and safety tracking devices including those for tracking children and patients with Alzheimer's. One... Continue reading
10:00
Best of the Road and other GIS Competitions
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Rand McNally and USA Today are taking votes in the Best of the Road Contest. Rand McNally and USA TODAY's second annual search for the Best Small Towns in America has begun! Voting ends May 15 so learn more to get started. You can also submit a video to be part of a team in the... Continue reading
07 mai 2012
12:18
Crime Around You (UK only): Fearsquare.com
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Fearsquare takes your recent FourSquare check-ins and cross-references these with the UK Police Crime Statistics database. Showing you street level crime for each individual check-in. Or in detail: The FearSquare application takes a list of your ten most recent FourSquare... Continue reading
10:00
ESL Students Learn and Teach GPS and other Education GIS News
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Teaching high school stduents and elementary students about GPS and having them use it to make maps is not a new idea. What is new in Urbana, IL is that the older students are teaching the younger ones. And, both groups are English as a second language students and the teaching and... Continue reading
10:00
MapQuest Eats Own Dogfood - Produces Map Mashup in Patch
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I've been on the The Huffington Post Media Group's case for some time. The group owns and runs both the Patch series of online local news sites and MapQuest. However, until today all illustrative maps I've seen for stories have been created using Google Maps. I even pinged one editor... Continue reading
03 mai 2012
19:32
Exelis Visual Systems Announces Release of ENVI 5
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Exelis shared this information on May 1 (but I didn't get it until May 3): Exelis Visual Information Solutions proudly announces the release of ENVI 5, the next generation of ENVI, the company’s industry-leading image analysis software which is used across industries by... Continue reading
13:30
New Foursquare Quick SIgnUp Plan and other LBS News
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The location-based discovery service, which offers merchants free access to analytics and admin tools, is now enabling businesses to claim and verify their locations instantly for a one-time $10 fee. The free option, which includes snail mail, best I can tell, can take a few weeks.... Continue reading
12:44
Nokia Mapping India (Itself)
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Nokia Location & Commerce (the part we used know as NAVTEQ) is mapping India. And, unlike others, it's not relying on crowdsourcing, but its own staff. The goal is a basemap to underlie location based services and take in some of the expected spending in this market of $165 million by... Continue reading
12:01
Teacher Seminars on Climate Change and Health and other Education GIS News
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This summer, IAGT and CIESIN are offering two opportunities for high school teachers and educators to learn how they can get their students to explore the impacts of climate change on human health. During these two Institutes, educators will use a geographic information system (GIS)... Continue reading
11:41
EPA GIO Jerry Johnson to Become Department of Interior GIO in May
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Per the NGAC coverage in the Boundary Solutions Inc. Newsletter: Instead the meeting was run by Vice Chair, Jerry Johnson, recently EPA GIO [Geogrpahic Information Officer], who in May is to become Department of the Interior Secretariat GIO. Why the move? To more directly... Continue reading
02 mai 2012
10:00
AAG Grants for Geography Career Outreach and other Education GIS News
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The AAG, through the Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education (EDGE) project funded by NSF, announces a grant program to support outreach, professional training, and related activities aimed at improving [student] awareness of and preparation for business, government, and... Continue reading
10:00
Washington State Ag Maps and other Government GIS News
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Now the Washington State Department of Agriculture offers tools on its website that make crop location information more accessible to farmers, agencies, ag groups and the public. Perry Beale, senior crop mapping specialist, is the main developer of the WSDA's website... Continue reading
10:00
Orange County CA Puts out RFI for Cloud-based GIS
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Orange County, CA released the Request for Information on April 13. Questions were due by April 23 and final responses are due May 7. GovWin notes: The county believes that the cloud would increase the level of customer care in its GIS by creating easy public access to basic... Continue reading
01 mai 2012
19:43
Closing and Closed: Click Bulletin Board and Microsoft TerraServer
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The USGS Center for LIDAR Information Coordination and Knowledge, aka CLICK, will shut down its bulletin board May 9 due to securty mandates from the Deparment of Interior. You might remember CLICK had a near brush with death last fall (APB coverage). - via LiDAR News TerraServer,... Continue reading
12:27
AAG’s International Encyclopedia of Geography and other Crowdsourcing GIS News
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The AAG has announced that the Association of American Geographers (AAG) will undertake one of the most ambitious and potentially far-reaching publication projects in the recent history of the fields of geography and GIScience. This will be a 15-volume work, to be published both in... Continue reading
11:16
Sensing Pollution During the Olympics and other Education GIS News
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The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games are expected to draw 11m visitors from around the world to the UK's capital for seven weeks, and 3m extra car journeys are anticipated on the busiest day. The team of researchers [from the University of Leicester] will use their CityScan... Continue reading
11:09
Texas Fire Risk App and other Government GIS News
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The Texas Forest Service and Texas A&M University have unveiled a new Web application that will forewarn residents when conditions are ripe for wildfire. The free application — dubbed TxWRAP — is designed to help homeowners and communities determine wildfire risk so they can act before a... Continue reading
10:00
County-based Hunger Risk Map and other Health GIS News
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On Friday, April 27, 2012, join Feeding America in Washington, D.C. as we unveil"Map the Meal Gap 2012", the second annual research study that provides estimates of food insecurity at the county and congressional district level. Food insecurity is the U.S. Department of... Continue reading
30 avril 2012
10:00
Army: PDF Solves Big Map Data Challenge
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Todd Blyler, team leader within the Warfighter Geospatial Production and Support Directorate, Army Geospatial Center (AGC), Corps of Engineers facility explains that soldiers don't need the whole huge GeoGlobe database (built on Skyline software), just a small bit of it. He just... Continue reading
10:00
Smart Pavement and other LBS News
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I continue to be skeptical of solutions that start with "all you have to do is install our infrastructure..." That's an uphill battle! A Spanish company is hoping to put the word on the street inside the pavement under your feet, starting this summer. Via Inteligente plans to... Continue reading
10:00
Map Cube Game and other Google Geo News
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Google's now jumped into the gaming fray itself with its new Cube game, which places players on a giant, six-panel cube whose faces spin when generating each of eight new levels. No, you're not competing in some grand survival game within a giant Cube (like the movie). Rather, players... Continue reading
27 avril 2012
11:12
Mapping Moods for Mental Health Awareness and other Crowdsourcing News
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Canada's Partners for Mental Health, a national charitable organization aiming to create a new state of mind about mental health is running a 'Not Myself Today' campaign. The goal is to have Canadians sign an online pledge of support for mental health at notmyselftoday.ca. But there's... Continue reading
26 avril 2012
16:44
India Launches Satellite with SAR Capabilities
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Several Indian news sources area reporting on the launch of India's RISAT-1, an earth observing satellite to monitor weather and crops. Launched Thursday by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), the satellite carries on board a synthetic aperature radar (SAR) sensor. According... Continue reading
16:04
Chicago Shows Off its Open Data Platform
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While the April 26 webinar was hosted by Socrata, very few details were giving about its offerings. Instead, the session titled "Chicago's Smarter City Transformation" focused on what the city did with the platform. It built an open data portal. Join Brett Goldstein, Chicago’s Chief Data... Continue reading
11:45
New Flex Map of San Diego Airport and other Esri News
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The new map is based on the Flex API and avaialble here. It uses a Bing basemap but I was unable to access it due to a huge splashscreen which I could not dismiss. This happens on my laptop now and again... (Safari, MacOS X if you are wondering...and no I don't want to change my... Continue reading
11:03
Santa Monica Wins Again and other Government GIS News
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For the 13th consecutive year, Santa Monica [CA] has won awards from the Public Technology Institute (PTI) for using cutting edge technology to address local issues. The beachside city won two first-place Technology Solutions Awards -- one for a mobile website that helps... Continue reading
10:33
NOLAYouthMap and other Education GIS News
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NOLAYouthMap.org is a new project from the Partnership for Youth Development, a local nonprofit that works with the full spectrum of after-school and summer programs in the metro area, helping them provide better experiences for local kids. Eric Jensen is the group’s director of... Continue reading
10:25
World Malaria Day and other Health GIS News
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April 25 is World Malaria Day. What' new? The World Health Organisation (WHO) has a new initiative in combating malaria called ‘T3: Test, Treat, Track’, which urges malaria-endemic countries and donors to “move towards universal access to diagnostic testing and antimalarial... Continue reading
25 avril 2012
10:34
NY State Regents Consider Dropping Required Geography Exam and other Education GIS News
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The Board of Regents next week will consider state Education Department recommendations to make the global history and geography exam optional. Instead, students could take an additional math, science or vocational exam, starting with freshmen who enter high school in 2013. Why? To... Continue reading
10:00
AOL: Betty Sapp to Head National Reconnaissance Office
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NRO Principal Deputy Director Betty Sapp will head the National Reconnaissance Office. She'll be the first woman to do so and will take on the post after current head, Bruce Carlson, steps down. AOL Defense obtained an e-mail by Sapp on Friday that indicated her new role. - Executive... Continue reading
24 avril 2012
13:22
Cybersecurity Bill Seeks to Protect Critical Infrastructure
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The current debate in Washington, D.C. regarding cybersecurity legislation (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA.) focuses on the protection of critical infrastructure such as the national electricity grid and our financial banking system. ... Continue reading
12:44
Space Enterprise Council to Host Forum on Commercial Remote Sensing
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The Space Enterprise Council of TechAmerica, a lobbying organization in Washington, D.C., is hosting a forum on the state of commerical remote sensing and specifically on the status of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's EnhanceView contract. The forum will be held Friday April... Continue reading
12:43
French wine map shows the best vintage, from 1978 to 2011
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The Telegraph shares a map and evaluation of French wine over the past three decades. Mayfair-based Berry Bros and Rudd, wine merchant to the Queen, provides the data that include quailty ratings and suggestions as to what to do with each vitage (drink, lay down, etc.). It's a very... Continue reading
12:23
Toronto iPhone Graffiti Reporting App? $1.99 Please
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The city offers a $1.99 iPhone app that allows locals to take pictures of graffiti and report them to the 311 system. Grafitti clean up is ideally the responsibility of the property owner, but if they don't clean it up, the city will do so - and then bill the property owner. This is... Continue reading
10:00
Victoria’s Surgical Mortality Rates and other Health GIS News
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Esri Australia GIS in Health specialist Jeremy Pytel said the audit [in the Australian state of Victoria]used GIS technology to map and analyse complex patient health care data and deliver an insight into mortality rates. The press release does not share any such insights nor link... Continue reading
9:05
TomTom’s New Global Geocoder Targets Power Users
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I spoke to Dan Adams, TomTom's vice president of the company's Location and Live Service group about today's announcement for their new global geocoder. He told me that the new web service had been talked about since the company was known as Geographic Data Technology (GDT). Today,... Continue reading
23 avril 2012
11:13
Most Connected College Student in Philly and other GIS Competitions
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Interact, a new geospatial social discovery application, is, first and foremost, about making connections. To prove it, the application is scheduled to officially launch on Monday (4/23) and by Thursday Interact found Anthony Coombs, 32, will be giving away an iPad to the most... Continue reading
10:15
Recirculating Farm Map and other Earth Day GIS News
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The Recirculating Farm Coalition announced a recirculatingfarms.org of such farms for Earth Day. Too bad the press release didn't include a link to it. I found it though on the website. What's a recirculating farm? It uses no soil to grow plants or fish (or both) and is generally... Continue reading
10:00
Academic Appointed to Alabama Geographic Info Council and other Education GIS News
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[Alabama]Gov. Robert Bentley has appointed Terry Winemiller, an associate professor of anthropology and geography at Auburn University at Montgomery, to the Alabama Geographic Information Advisory Committee. Winemiller is the only higher education representative on the board. -... Continue reading
10:00
New Geo APIs - 4/23/12
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BeThereNYC API: BeThereNYC hosts a listing for events occurring in New York City. It focuses on events taking place at museums, such as exhibitions and stargazing. It also provides a map that shows the locations of listed events. The information on BeThereNYC can be accessed... Continue reading
20 avril 2012
10:52
US Topo Update and other Government GIS News
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The work of actually mapping the state [of Alaska] will conclude this year, and after quality checks are conducted, the final product could be in production by 2013. In addition to the remapping effort, the USGS is completing a project to release every map they have ever... Continue reading
19 avril 2012
14:47
Location Intelligence and Oracle Spatial UC - Video
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We've launched a video that previews the Location Intelligence and Oracle Spatial User Conference. ... Continue reading
12:28
Geography Educators Visit DC Today to Support TGIF
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Apparently, a group of educators is visiting Washington DC today to encourage passage of the Teaching Geography is Fundamental Act (TGIF) to fund geographic education. How do I know? Today, I will join educators from around the country in Washington, D.C., with one mission: urging... Continue reading
12:21
Map-based Travel Site and other StartUp GiS News
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Lots of travel sites are vying for your attention. Georama hopes to grab you by simplifying the process of planning, booking, and sharing your travel plans. The site uses a map of the world as its user interface, and users click on pushpin icons to drill down on a planned trip or... Continue reading
10:00
DC GreenMap and other Government GIS News
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GreenUp DC is part of the city’s overall effort to get citizens to become active participants in Mayor Vincent Gray’s sustainability initiatives, and to track performance of various environmental programs, according to the District Department of the Environment (DDOE). Esri built... Continue reading
18 avril 2012
21:35
Race for More Spectral Resolution for Earth Observation Satellites Is On
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The race in space for commercial earth observation satellites was primarily for ever increasing spatial resolution. From the early days of Landsat’s 80 meter spatial resolution till today’s sub-meter accuracy on GeoEye and DigitalGlobe satellites, the demand for seeing objects on the... Continue reading
10:24
New Diabetes Map and other Health GIS News
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Healthline.com, a leading source of online health and wellness information, today published a new visual interactive tool that analyzes county-level diabetes incidence and the overlap with average household income levels, poverty rates, and "food deserts" - areas where healthy,... Continue reading
10:00
Towson Gets NSDI Grants and other Education GIS News
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The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) has awarded Towson University’s Center for GIS (CGIS) two National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) cooperative agreement grants. The grants are intended to enhance the accessibility and delivery of geospatial data and services in... Continue reading
10:00
Lawrie Jordan Addresses Remote Sensing Trends and other Esri News
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Lawrie Jordan, director of imagery at Esri, and special assistant to Jack Dangermond, gave the keynote address at the SPAR International conference on Monday in Houston. Jordon touched on more than a few GIS trends he is seeing, including the “convergence” of GIS and 3D imaging... Continue reading
10:00
Director on Value of GIS and Social Media and other NGA News
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Wilson's Creek National Battlefield [MO] is commemorating its 150th anniversary this year - but defense officials say the civil war battleground offers timeless lessons in geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) -lessons that can be applied today. ...[NGA] Agents spend three days at the... Continue reading
17 avril 2012
16:08
MapStory.org Soft Launches
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I got a preview of MapStory.org (or is it Mapstory - the site has it both ways) last week at FOSS4GNA. It was scheduled to launch last Thursday and is now up an running. What is it? There is no "about" page, so I can only tell you what I think it is. It's a platform for collecting... Continue reading
11:39
Bing Maps Update
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Microsoft wants you to know: Today, Bing is announcing several updates to help people navigate Bing Maps faster and more easily find businesses, building and venues. - Expanded venue maps: Now there are nearly 900 venue maps which are much easier to find and use. Simply zoom-in... Continue reading
10:00
Google Earth Builder Part of New Pipeline Integrity App
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Willbros Group, Inc. is collaborating GeoEye for imagery and Google for data serving to deliver a cloud-based pipeline integrity management solution. This cloud-based solution will provide customers easy access to real-time pipeline information integrated with GeoEye's... Continue reading
10:00
Cartifact Map Award and other GIS Competition News
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Cartifact will sponsor a Map Innovation Award with a top prize of $10,000 to be given for the best map-focused innovation of 2012. The company made the kick-off announcement Tuesday at the O'Reilly Where Conference in San Francisco. Bruce Daniel, Director of Cartifact Labs and... Continue reading
16 avril 2012
10:00
Parathyroid Surgery Mapping and other Health GIS News
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Parathyroid Surgeons at the Norman Parathyroid Center announced today that they have just exceeded 18,000 patients on their "Parathyroid Surgery Map", documenting where their patients live who had parathyroid surgery at their center. The map is generated via Google Maps and shows how... Continue reading
13 avril 2012
11:51
Guardian Datablog Learns about Selecting Colors for Choropleth Maps
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It came up this week with this map on poverty and deprivation in London, part of our London: the data series. Recently we've been using the colour scale on the map below, which is a variation on the famous traffic light collection of colours - for the Guardian, this tends to go from... Continue reading
12 avril 2012
17:24
Esri Map Story Maps Titanic Passengers Geography, Class and Fate
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With the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic upon us, please click on the attached link for the Esri map that plots the geography, class, and fate of the passengers on the ship. Some key results: First-class passengers were primarily from affluent European and American... Continue reading
17:05
Geocoder.ca Sued by Canada Post
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The suit was made public back in March but seems to have just hit the media today. The story, as told on the geocoder.ca website: Since 2004 we have crowdsourced* the generation of the "Canadian Postal Code Geocoded Database." When you make a query to geocoder containing for example... Continue reading
11:10
Another GPS Company Starts Offering Data Products: Barry Glick’s ALK
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TomTom, Waze and other "GPS" companies build and offer map data based on their users travel routes. ALK Technologies has been using its data internally for its consumer and trucking products for years. But now, the plan is to license the data to others. Barry Glick? He of MapQuest,... Continue reading
11:01
Univ of Georgia Geography Prof in Princeton List and other Education GIS News
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University of Georgia's John Knox, an associate professor of geography is among the best undergraduate teachers in the nation, according to the Princeton Review and RateMyProfessors.com. He's a physical geographer. - press release via @theaag The GIS Mapping Replication and... Continue reading
10:44
AdAge Maps US Disease Distribution and other Health GIS News
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AdAge asks and answers: Where do people get sick? We worked with GfKMRI to see how the Patchwork Nation county types skew in terms of prevalence of major illnesses. You can look at the map (and some demographics from GFKMRI) and/or download the data for your own use. You can also... Continue reading

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