Friday, July 13. 2007

Google Earth Use in Alabama Wins Google Award

Update 7/18/07: At least one county hasn't used Virtual Alabama; it uses Pictometry instead.

- Times-Journal

---original article 7/13/07 ---

The Alabama Department of Homeland Security was presented the Google Enterprise Superstar Award for its Virtual Alabama program. The app, which the department pays for and makes available for free to counties (apparently $150,000 for the license), uses Google Earth to identify locations for emergency first-responders. Apparently, this is the first time Google's given the award to a government agency.

Why give the award? "Mike Bradshaw, head of Google Federal Enterprise, said Alabama's use of Google Earth should be a model for other government agencies. "

- Birmingham Business Journal

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google at 09:02 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0) |

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Alabama Department of Homeland Security Director, James Walker, will be the keynote speaker at Directions Media's Rocket City Geospatial Conference Oct. 15-17 in Huntsville. A workshop on Virtual Alabama will also be presented by Chris Johnson, Vice President, US Space and Rocket Center's Geospatial Training and Application Center. See details at Www.RocketCityGeospatial.com

#1 Joe Francica (Link) on 2007-07-14 11:33 (Reply)

I am Fireman and would like to know how to get into this website

#2 Charles Gillion on 2007-12-02 21:45 (Reply)

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