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The Motley Fool, the finance and stock watching publication, has been watching the commercial, earth observing satellite providers GeoEye (GEOY) and DigitalGlobe (DGI). So has that other financial publication, Barrons.
I think the online mapmakeing tool WorldMap is out of beta, but the article does not make that 100% clear. It's open source and developed by Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis,
The GeoTech Center has published its 2012 newsletter (pdf).
A team of students from the University at Buffalo Law School has been named a winner of the 2012 New York Redistricting Project, a national competition that challenged student teams to draw new congressional, state senate and state assembly district maps.
In a conference call Wednesday, LightSquared Executive Vice President Jeffrey Carlisle alleged tests done to explore possible interference of the company's 4G network with GPS devices were rigged.
"The test parameters were chosen for failure," [Paid consultant Ed] Thomas said on the call. "They used an arbitrary figure to determine failure, which has no effect on performance. And they were allowed to select their own devices to test, some of which are not even sold commercially. The whole thing looks like a college student conducting an experiment for school who draws the curve in before making the measurements."
- C|net (Gory details here!)
"It's essentially a computer mapping program. It takes features in the real world and you can put them into a computer mapping program and put them into something that you can visualize a lot easier than walking around town."
- Fredonia resident and student Jordan Abbott describing GIS and how it might be used in Dunkirk, NY as quote in the Observer. He gave a presentation to the Citizens' Advisory Committee (CAC) at its January meeting.
A new addition to ChicagoShovels.org, Adopt-a-Sidewalk will allow residents to request help in shoveling via a map.
Forget OSM and Google Maps, Hillsborough, NJ is using GreenMap.org for its community mapping efforts.
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and the British Astronomical Association’s Campaign for Dark Skies are calling for ‘citizen scientists’ to take part in Star Count Week.
From January 20-27 stargazers will be asked to count the number of stars they can see within the constellation of Orion with the naked eye.
This effort is in Cheshire and yes, the results will be posted on a map. Data is gathered via Survey Monkey.
