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It seems to have started in July and is called The Intergraph Connect Blog. There are also blogs that seem older for Power Process and Marine (PPM) called GetSmart! and CadWorx and Analysis Solutions called the Insider Blog They. all use different platforms and look different. I found the corporate one by accident via Twitter.
You can watch them here, including one from our own Joe Francica on Augmented Reality.
The City of Asheville, NC added to its online GIS who owns which roads in the city, making it that much easier for residents to get repair work done.
To see the mapAsheville’s new application, go to www.ashevillenc.gov/mapasheville and click on the “Standard GIS” link. Then, in the map criteria column on the left side of the page, select “Maintenance Responsibility,” and zoom in to the desired location. Clicking the “+” sign will show the map’s color-coded key. A “Simple Search” from the mapAsheville main site will also allow for address-specific searches.
I think in my city we call 311 and they determine who to call on our behalf.
“The Statewide Digital Mapping Initiative (SDMI) will update the outdated 50-year-old map of Alaska by gathering data from a Gulfstream and a Learjet 36. The initiative is a coalition of several state departments and the University of Alaska.“That sound like a good idea!
Madison County (IL) Recorder Kyle Anderson unveiled a new map on his Website that plots every Madison County property in foreclosure for the past 30 days.
The map currently shows all Notice of Foreclosures filed for the past month. The map will be updated monthly and only reflect those notices filed the previous month.
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BND.com
US company Location Based Intelligence has licensed the engine of a research project from Hebrew University to use “as an objective means to help with the evaluation of patients with spinal cord injuries. Questionnaires and an interview before and after surgery are not really objective tools, says [Dr. Noam] Shoval, whereas the GPS/engine tool from HU could provide a lot more than a patient might reveal. It shows details such as whether a person is driving or walking, how long they do it for and at what speed. It can monitor the physical behavior of a person following an operation or tell a doctor how well a prosthetic limb is performing.”
According to a study published in the Medical Journal of Australia general practitioners (GPs) who share space with with pathology companies do not appear to influence the volume of tests they order. While in over percentages orders for tests at co-located ted facilities are slightly higher, when for other factors that influence test ordering, such as doctors’ age and practice size are correctly for, the differences disappear. Still, study co-author Prof David Studdert, from the School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne, can’t explain why test ordering rates are 10% higher in Melbourne than in Sydney.
The Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR’s) Health System Research Cell (HSRC) is sponsoring a workshop for GIS users on “Geographic Information System (GIS) and Public Health: Practice of a good mapping” in National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE), Chennai from September 6 to 8 & September 13 to15. The two workshops which are designed to offer comprehensive guidance of those who are using Geographic Information system (GIS) for public health related activity in their work place.
