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Pilot, the fuel/convenience stores often seen at travel plazas, just stuck a deal with PROCON to offer fleet services tracking. The key selling point? The cost is added to Pilot’s fuel card system.
NASA has already started using airborne radar and will eventually use a new satellite to map California’s earthquake faults. The ultimate goal is earthquake prediction.
The work began in February when a small NASA jet outfitted with a radar array left NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base. It completed one 3D map and will repeat the trip later this year.
The plan is to map the state four times a year, and in time (from four to 10 years from now) to use data from a NASA satellite taking similar measurements every eighth day.
Nashua, NH announced a new feature of the city’s online mapping - information on its parks. That’s great. But try following these directions from an article in the local paper which explains how to find the mapping app:
The maps are on the city’s Web site, www.gonashua.com. Under “city government,” click on “departments” and then on “parks and recreation.” Scroll down, and on the far right side of the screen, click on “Nashua parks maps” and then on the second gray box titled, “GIS Web mapping application.”
One downside is that it takes a little searching and at least four clicks to get there from the city’s Web site. Users can also get there directly by going to: gis.nashuanh.gov/parks. GIS stands for geographic information system.
The Indian company has had a GIS focus for some years and expects to grow its base per chairman and managing director B V R Mohan Reddy, “...we plan to dig deep into GIS and engineering services segments, where we are strong. We would also like to focus on adjacencies in these segments to maximise the returns.”
But, there’s also a move into electronics. “Electronics designing is something we are currently working on. In fact, we are already in this field in different verticals. All that we have to do now is to bring those capabilities into a single vertical and hone up skills further to meet the demands of the electronics industry.” First target: Japan.
Two Oregon Institute of Technology students took honors for their maps in regional competitions. Leo Chan of Cave Junction, Ore., won first place in the student division at the URISA GIS In Action conference and David McIntire earned first place in the student division at the Intermountain GIS Conference in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
- OIT News
Curtis Melvin, a doctoral student of economics at George Mason University in Virginia is building his own layer of North Korea for Google Earth. “His data is from maps, books and the Internet, including some contacts in country. The KML has been downloaded by more than 50,000 people.
Maine has its own State GIS Championship for middle, high school and undergraduate students. It’s poster-based and students individually or in teams compete for scholarship money. Students move up from regional competitions to the finals. Funding comes from the National Science Foundation as a component of a three-year project led by the University of Maine at Machias designed to improve and promote geospatial technology education in Maine. Additional support comes from the Maine GIS User Group, Maine Community College System, University of Maine System, Maine Geographic Alliance, Maine 4-H, Maine Learning Technology Initiative, and the Center for Community GIS.
