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“The public should have access to the same crime information, virtually the same crime information that the NOPD uses on a daily basis to identify emerging crime patterns.”
- Brain Denzer commenting on the slow updates and filtering that prompted him to create his own interactive maps of crime in New Orleans in WWLTV.
A few weeks back I did a very self-serving poll trying to get what/how many geo blogs readers of this blog frequent. My real goal: to figure out if I should “dupe” stories well covered elsewhere. The good news, even with a small sample of 28, is that most of you keep an eye on other blogs.
Results:
My regular geoblog reading habits best match:
65% A few select geoblogs
22% Planet Geospatial blogs plus other geoblogs
8% Just this blog
8% Planet Geospatial blogs
0% Read no geoblogs regularly
Next up: What single factor besides pure functionality most influences your selection of a geospatial software app?
The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Sudan donated a “satellite imagery system” worth $600,000 to the Ad hoc Technical Border Committee, the group who will produce a border for the troubled country. The development of the border is part of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which ended fighting. Once endorsed the new border will be marked on the ground.
- UN News
I’ve heard references to Daniel Seddiqui’s project Living the Map, in which he “works” a different job in each state. I just saw that he shadowed a cartographer from Uteig Engineers in Fargo, North Dakota.
There’s no question there’s currently an abundance of location information out in the world. How do we “protect ourselves” from that very information and technologies? How much can we rely on automated systems to protect us from the dangers? How much must we do on our own? What types of protection do we not have that should be invented?
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