Update: 5:17 pm EST
Wired and other outlets report the individials were contractors acting on their own and no longer work for Google.
Google said that two people behind the accounts were contractors using machines on Google’s network, but a spokesperson for the search giant added that these contractors were “acting on their own behalf.” The spokesperson also said that the contractors are “no longer working on Google projects.”
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OpenStreetMap officials report vandalism from Google IP addresses.
Preliminary results show users from Google IP address ranges in India deleting, moving and abusing OSM data including subtle edits like reversing one-way streets.
ReadWriteWeb reports Google is aware of the issue and investigating.
- OpenGeoData Blog
OpenStreetMap offers a document to help those switching from other basemaps (Google Maps?) to OSM.
- @geohacker
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/17 at 05:28 AM |
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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched a new interactive web tool—the NCHHSTP Atlas—that allows users to create maps, charts, and tables using HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted disease (STD) data collected by CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP).
Amont other things it offers data for a number of diseases (AIDS, HIV, Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and primary and secondary syphilis and more to come), for a number of years (2000-2009) and unlike other visualization tools, is powered by GIS (ArcGIS for Flex).
- AIDS.gov Blog
A Legionnaire's disease outbreak popped up in Wisconsin. But geography came to the rescue, as did good surveillance. Thomas Haupt an epidemiologist for the Wisconsin Division of Public Health explains how it was tracked to a hospital waterfall.
Well, it started off with our routine surveillance for Legionnaires' disease in Wisconsin. We did notice that within a four week period in this small area we had at least eight cases of Legionnaires' disease. Our follow-up is to ask questions as to where they may have been in the 10 days prior to their onset of illness. At least six of the patients identified that they had been in one particular hospital.
- NPR
On Curacao a GIS is helping health workers keep track of efforts to minimize dengue fever, reports of breeding grounds and the levying of fines against those not taking care in prevention.
- Amigoe
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/17 at 03:00 AM |
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At Cleveland State Community Colleage you can take a real class in geocaching. The first weeks are in the classroom - learning about the website and software. Then you go find (and I guess plant) caches. IF there's enought content I guess it could also be a geospatial course. I could not find the course in the catalog but there's lots of Phys Ed.
- Chatanoogan
Twenty-eight members of the Astronomy Club at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland [FL] worked for several months to prepare a giant latex weather balloon bearing a box of cameras and data-collecting equipment. They sent the probe aloft last weekend, with the aim of reaching 100,000 feet — high enough to peer across the threshold of the universe.
"We wanted to see the curvature of the earth," astronomy teacher Kyle Jeter said. "We wanted to see where the sky turns black, where you really feel like you're at the edge of space."
Sadly, there were technical difficulties.
- Sun Sentinel
University of Georgia geography professor Marshall Shepherd will begin a 1-year term as president elect of the has been voted president-elect of the American Meteorological Society on Jan. 22. Shepherd, directs the school's Atmospheric Sciences Program, and will assume the presidency of the society in 2013.
- WTOC
Educational non-profit EAST Initiative would like to welcome Dr. Angela Kremers as their new Senior Director of Corporate Strategy. Through Dr. Kremers’ previous work with the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation as their Senior Associate for Education, she gained national attention in educational philanthropy by increasing support and collaboration for improvement in higher education college completion work and K-12 system reform. Dr. Kremers was nominated by Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe in 2011 to serve on the prestigious National Assessment Governing Board.
- EAST PR
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/17 at 03:00 AM |
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