Brent McFarland believes the town of Mashpee’s failure to include his street on official maps and to mark his road with a street sign may have directly contributed to his wife’s death when emergency personnel could not reach her in time. The town does not consider his road a road and hence he is responsible for signage. Sadly, a similar incident raised the issue in 2004, but it was clearly not solved.
- Cape Cod Online
Using the village’s geographic information system (GIS), officials in Riverside, IL, have been pinpointing every area of flooding - whether they’re backyards, basements or roadways - whenever a complaint comes in. The question: should the village spend public money ($20,000) to survey private property for a flood study?
- Riverside/Brookfield Landmark
It’s time for the streetlight survey in Danville, CA. A truck with a digital camera will do the work to update the information in the GIS. “The primary goal of the survey is to determine if the cost of operation of the street lights is correct.” I’m not sure how the day time pictures will help, but perhaps they are could just be counting lights, I suppose.
- Danville Weekly
Plumas Corporation (California) Executive Director John Sheehan told the Board of Supervisors improvements to the county’s and Plumas National Forest’s wildland urban interface (WUI) maps could generate $2.7 million in economic activity over the next two years. The number of communities in the interface has grown from 28 to 60 and at $1000/acre of potential income, could be significant.
- Plumas News
Maybe after all the Google Street View issues, this is no the best way to note a local mapping project: “Residents need not fear. They’re not being spied on, despite the fact that vans with strange radio equipment on their roofs will soon roll into every driveway in Sandusky County.” DDTI is doing point address mapping for 911 in the Ohio County all paid for by grants.
- Time Messenger
NYS DoT now offers a map highlighting the state’s 21 designated scenic byways spanning more than two thousand miles of roads. It’s available at tourist destinations.
- WCAX
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/28 at 06:00 AM |
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Update: The MRSA Atlas is live here. Powered by ArcGIS Server; registration required.
—- original post 10/26/10—-
The NY Times has a great infographic highlighting how simple and often geographic(!) changes in the lunch room can impact what students eat. When it comes to selecting in the cafeteria, geography matters!
- NY Times
Flu researchers are using a synthetic population mirroring U.S. deomgraphics and geography created by the National Institutes of Health at RTI International in North Carolina to model the spread of the disease. The data? Census 2000 + LandScan.
- Medical News Today
Researchers are launching an atlas of MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) the superbug with about a 20% mortality rate to help medical personel on the front lines fight it. There’s a webinar on Oct 27 about it. “The atlases and the maps produced by the National Minority Quality Forum database are available for exclusive use by advocacy groups and similar nonprofit organizations and by policy makers (government employees; members of local and national judicial, executive, and legislative branches; and their aides). “
- press release with webinar details
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/27 at 01:59 PM |
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ReadWriteWeb analyzes Compete’s latest stats on the most visited sites and focuses on the meaningful numbers: the change from last month or last year. Of note from a mapping standpoint, in the top 50 sites:
Unsurprisingly, Myspace saw a 19% loss over the year, while Mapquest lost 22% and Flickr lost nearly 17%.
I’m surprised there’s still that much to lose after so many years of Google Maps and Bing Maps and…
- RWW
- Compete PR
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/27 at 01:39 PM |
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“Looking at the maps, we need to scatter the dots a little bit better.”
Iowa City council member Mike Wright in response to a map showing the city’s publicly subsidized housing, including its 786 Section 8 housing vouchers in use in rentals. It showed a higher concentration of city-owned public housing on the city’s east and southeast sides. He was quoted in the Press Citizen.
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/27 at 10:41 AM |
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Proposals due Jan 6, 2010. Announcement Feb/Mar 2011.
- details via @gletham
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/27 at 07:39 AM |
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