Austin Beutner is running for Mayor of Los Angeles Mayor. He's been critical of the Fire Dept's response rates and now offers the LAFD Response Times Map (Google Map Mashup). You can read his plan to fix the issue at the Huffington Post.
- Hollywood Patch
The Bermuda Mapping Project commissioned by Ministry of Environment, Planning and Infrastructure Strategy means an update to island imagery that dates back to 2003. Some 1,200 new addresses have popped up since then. Project costs will run about $260,000. The public will be able to purchase the new data.
- Royal Gazette
The Michigan Department of Transportation has printed its annual map of road and bridge projects across the state. More up to date info is available online. I wonder how much longer they'll do a large run of these maps?
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/29 at 05:20 AM |
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Phillip K. Mol of G-1 Aerial Surveys has offered to replace a 1978 aerial mosaic that hangs in the Bureau County, IL Court House. He does such work for about $1000 but will give the county a new one for free. No, there will be no new pics - he'll assemble it from IDNR and USGS orthoquads that date to 2005. But, he does want his company to get credit on the image.
- News Tribune
The City of Indio [CA] has been approved to receive grant funding in the amount of $47,000 from the California Office of Traffic Safety to implement an automated traffic collision and tracking program with Geographic Information System (GIS) capabilities. "This is a significant upgrade and modernization of how we'll be able to prevent collisions and make Indio's roads safer. This program will greatly assist the city in proactively reducing the number of reported traffic collisions city wide, said Indio's Mayor Glenn Miller.
- My Desert
As many as 56 medical marijuana facilities in Colorado are located within 1,000 feet of a school, according to an I-News analysis of school addresses and licenses issued to more than 700 medical marijuana facilities statewide.
Federal and state laws require a 1000 foot buffer. So, the feds are cracking down as they recently did in California. GIS was part of the analysis.
- Inewsnetwork.org
Forget OSM and Google Maps, Hillsborough, NJ is using GreenMap.org for its community mapping efforts.
- Hillsborough Patch
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/16 at 05:15 AM |
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