Local GIS Tidbits
Merced County, CA received a $30,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, that will found a new GIS to study traffic collisions. Among the goals is to locate collisions and analyze the traffic patterns in these areas to enhance safety measures.. In return, these studies will be the foundation for new traffic safety measures and improvements. In 2008, there were 14 reported fatal crashes and another 253 injury crashes, which occurred on county roadways.
Things seem to be rolling along smoothly in team effort in Aukland to build a cooperative GIS. The project to create “an internet-based application for viewing geospatial data about every parcel of land in the region” involved eight local councils and has been running for a year. It “already has a growing community of commercial users and is also of value for ratepayers” and has saved councils $1M by flying the region in swoop. The councils have also made use of a single viewer application that’s been customized three different ways (so far).
Blythe Brown is the noxious and invasive plants coordinator with Kodiak Soil and Water Conservation District in Alaska. She pulls together a group that inculdes the city, Kodiak Island Borough, Kodiak Wildlife Refuge and several tribal group to fight invasive species. Among the group’s tasks: mapping the species in a GIS and hiring a weed coordinator.
