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The funds total about $200,000 and specify exactly what GIS while be acquired (nothing about which GPS receivers, however): “licenses for ArcMap Geographical Information System (GIS).” The OCC is a “regulatory agency whose responsibilities include oversight of the telecommunications industry.”
The winners are Utah, Fairfax County, VA and Virginia Beach, VA respectively. What’s interesting is the properties the winners share:
- access to social media (Twitter is hot)
- access to services (paying for things, reporting potholes)
- use of constituent feedback to organize websites
- maps were not mentioned in the write up of any of the three, though the Utah portal uses some type of GeoIP to determine the location of visitors and offer relevant services
There is no information in the article announcing the winners on how the publication selected them (and some runners up), nor what criteria were used, nor if the jurisdictions were nominated in some way.
- GovTech
Tom Burley from the USGS Texas Water Science Center in Austin, TX wrote to tell me about a new report from USGS that I think will be of interest to many readers.
I recently finished a USGS publication examining this incredibly broad issue of data and information management in the context of the natural resource management efforts of a high-elevation ecosystem. This stems from a two year study I co-directed that looked at how these issues were addressed. It’s available here as a USGS Open File Report Publication: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1170/
We intended this to be applicable to all natural resource management contexts, but particularly, the on-the-ground scenarios and folks doing the real work and making the real decisions. We looked at a number of issues including everything from project planning to database design concepts to free FGDC metadata tools and example workflows. ... I think it is a good starting point at looking at these issues holistically.
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It is a somewhat long publication, but I think pages 1-8 of the actual document along with the Table of Contents provide a good high-level overview and understanding of its content and relevance to issues everyone is dealing with today.
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