Top Tweets from Friday #ESRIUC

Some of the more interesting tweets from Friday at ESRI UC:

UC is over. Recovering from exhaustion. Now the real work begins….but where to start?
@geoparadigm

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Trash Track: MIT Tracks “Removal Chain”

Two cities, Seattle and New York will be participating in the project from the MIT SENSEable City Lab. It’s just what you might think: representative trash from volunteer households will be tagged (they didn’t get into the tech), then its path through the waste stream is publicly mapped in real time. The real time data will be available on the Web beginning in September. The idea? The more we know about where our trash goes, the more likely we are to aim for recyclable products over those that will end up in landfills.

MIT newsroom, via a tip from reader Larry

Jack Dangermond Wants You to Know about this Company (#ESRIUC)

I can say that because he personally invited 34 North to attend this year’s User Conference. The company is a successful Web development shop. Their solutions include collaborative portals for natural resource projects. Take for example, Bay-Delta Live, used to monitor the Sacremento-San Joaquim Bay Delta area, a fragile ecosystem. The site lets all the stakeholders share data, maps and comment on key issues. Feeding the sites maps are ArcGIS Server and MapServer.

34 North is working on something else. An open source platform for just about anyone to use to do the same sorts of things. Called OpenNRM it uses OpenLayers to access back end data and has its own homegrown content management, widget management and other tools (list of components). It will be available in late 2009 (website currently says Aug 31) under GPL 2, an open source license.

Podcast: Intergraph’s SDI Strategy

On this podcast, sponsored by Intergraph Corporation are representatives from the company to talk about Intergraph’s Spatial Data Infrastructure, or SDI, offerings.  They will focus on the business needs for SDI, what makes up an SDI, the importance of industry standards OGC/ISO/INSPIRE in SDIs and specifically, the will discuss what is Intergraph’s SDI offering, and some early SDI implementations. On the panel are:


David Holmes – Strategic Marketing Director

Johann Jessenk – Government & Transportation Industry Manager

Roger Harwell – GeoMedia Web Product Manager


Find out more information about Intergraph’s SDI solutions at the company website.

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