Tuesday, June 10. 2008

Mapping the Toronto Measles Outbreak

The Map of the Week feature at the Toronto Star tackles the outbreak, one of the worst in 12 years. There are thematic maps of those inoculated along with those who have vaccination exemptions.

- via Poynter.org

Quote of the Week

"Next year, dependent on funding, the BHS hopes to implement the next stage which will be to launch EMAGIN online."

- Equine World UK news release about EMAGIN, the Equestrian Mapping and Geographical Information Network, launched in 2007 by The British Horse Society. The not online version provides "Where to ride," a GIS-based section of information about off-road riding and which Ordnance Survey maps are needed. Strange that something of this type is not online at the outset. Perhaps its a data licensing issue?

Clark Labs Receives Climate Warning Grants from Google.org, Moore Foundation

The Clark Labs for Cartographic Technology and Geographic Analysis at Clark University received $1.2 million in two grants, to research the impact of climate phenomena such as El Niño affect the Amazon River area of South America and south central Africa.

The Labs will be researching the potential for a climate teleconnection-based (climate connections between fair apart geographies) early warning system for food, health and ecosystem security. The two grants, each $600,000 are from google.org., the philanthropic arm of the Internet giant, and $600,000 from the San Francisco-based Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

- Worcester Telegram

Podcast: Speedy Browsers for Web Mapping…Which Ones Are Faster?

It's always about speed. In the early days of geospatial technology, the argument was about getting things done faster with speedier computers: VAXes, mini-VAXes, and those "wiz-bang" 486 PCs! Now the discussion has changed. With geospatial solutions being delivered by Internet-based mapping programs some of the bottleneck with speed is tied up in browsers. Is Internet Explorer faster than Mozilla? What browser best renders maps and which is tops in security? Editor Joe Francica explores the options.

Editor' Note: The map mentioned in the podcast that was used to test the speed of the map rendering was retrieved using Micrsoft's maps.live.com.

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