MAPPS vs. United States Trial Postponed until 2/9

The trial regarding the Brooks Act originally set for 2/2/07 (this Friday) has been postponed until 2/9/07.

- conversation with John Pallatiello of MAPPS

NPR: GIS Helps Activist Locate Grocery Stores in Philly

Day to Day highlights the work of Duane Perry, who founded an organization in Philadelphia called the Food Trust, dedicated to helping city residents gain access to nutritious, affordable, food and Amy Hillier, professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, but back back in the day a GIS grad student. Their work plotting the nature of Philadelphia’s residents and the stores avaialble helped pave the way for state grants to put stores where there were none. Audio will be available at 4 pm EST.

Geology/Geography Merge at Bowling Green

A new school will be launched at Bowling Green State University in Ohio from the merging of the departments of geology and geography and the Center for Environmental Studies. The School of Earth, Environment and Society. The final paper work should be completed in May.

The new organization may help grow GIS:

both the geography and geology departments offer a course in Geographic Information System, a computer system used for managing and analyzing different types of geographic data.

With the new school, students can take a single GIS course. This also provides the possibility of higher level GIS courses to be developed based off of the initial course.

- BG News

New at LBS360.NET

Posted today at LBS360.NET, Directions Media’s publication about location-based services:

Why LBS Applications Fail

Street Smarts: Improving Location-based Services with Intelligent Reverse Geocoding

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