Toronto Open Data Map: Government GIS News
The City of Toronto’s long-awaited Wellbeing Toronto map site launched today (in beta), giving users the ability to map 140 officially-defined neighbourhoods by dozens of different data points, from arson to breast cancer screening to sports facilities. It's a much more user-friendly approach to open data than we've seen in Toronto (and elsewhere) up till now.
In Lansing, MI GIS is the bad guy; it's tech told the city two fire stations should close and which ones.
The decision to close two stations came after a GIS mapping study. The idea is if you have to close two stations, shutting down numbers five and seven would have the least impact on coverage.
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The Pottawattamie County Board (NE) amended its budget to put $200,000 the County Attorney’s Office and Geographic Information Systems and Information Technology. The funding is in support of response to the current flooding.
“Once the river crests, a pictometry flight will give us elevations of the flood,” Supervisor Melvyn Houser said.
