It’s called Represent and it uses a New York address as the starting point for a search for news about your region and what its elected officials (local up to federal) are doing. The interactive feature hails from The New York Times’s Interactive News Technology group and went beta last week.
The search involves a “point in many polygons” search to determine into what districts the address falls, then assigns the representatives. The next step is to build a news stream on those individuals.
Among the technologies and data used: Django, GeoDjango, maps from New York City’s Department of City Planning showing district boundaries for City Council, State Assembly, State Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL), PostgreSQL, PostGIS, GEOS, Geo-Coder-US.
Hat tip to Amy Gahran for the lead.
- New York Times
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/22 at 01:03 PM |
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Per 24/7 Wall Street:
GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) fell another 5%. Satellite imagery contracts may still be lucrative, but supporting the business is not a cheap endeavor.
That refers to a low of 14.75 on Friday. The 52 week high was 37.37.
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/22 at 08:27 AM |
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Earth2Tech offers this quote (about the food/fuel conflict) from a speech he gave earlier in the week. Perhaps we can hook him up with the DOI folks?
We need more effective use of the capabilities provided by satellite imagery and other remote sensing, and by GIS, both for conducting such studies [of projected land requirements for food, animal feed, fiber, biofuels, and infrastructure] and for conveying the results to publics and decision-makers in forms they will understand and use. And, not least, we need technologies for extracting food, fiber, and fuel from agricultural and forest ecosystems in ways less disruptive of the other services those systems provide than the technologies typically used today.
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/22 at 08:20 AM |
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Many sites are reporting that news after Garmin Asia Pacific marketing director Tony An let the news slip. The nuvifone, which apparently will not be based on Android, is expected in Taiwan in Q2 of next year. Android phones, developed by Garmin, but manufactured by others are due later in the year.
- Elctronista
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/22 at 08:06 AM |
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No others were explicitly geospatial (well, the iPhone API was #1, and it has location awareness, so that counts, I guess). I still maintain that Fire Eagle is among the most important location platforms we have today.
Fire Eagle (and sharing its imagery with OpenStreetMap) shows that Yahoo knows a bit about geo.
- ReadWriteWeb
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/22 at 07:57 AM |
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