[Alabama]Gov. Robert Bentley has appointed Terry Winemiller, an associate professor of anthropology and geography at Auburn University at Montgomery, to the Alabama Geographic Information Advisory Committee. Winemiller is the only higher education representative on the board.
- Montgomery Advertiser
Google will host two Google Geo Teachers Institutes in Europe this summer: one in Dublin, Ireland, and another in London, England. The two-day events will be taking place in June at Google offices.
- LatLong Blog
Here's a free to read and use (via CC-BY-SA) World Regional Geography e-textbook: World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization by Royal Berglee. Extra materials (quizzes, PowerPoints, etc.) have a fee.
- Flatworld Knowledge via World History Teachers Blog
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/23 at 03:00 AM |
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Westport, CT has a new Esri-based map viewer. The city is offering several 90 and 150 minute classes on using it. Good thing - since I oculd not get the help to work. The old intro page says you must use IE not AOL or another browser. Safari worked fine.
- CT
The Franklin County, AL Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Consortium officially lauched its “virtual Franklin County,” also known as its public facing GIS. It's built on ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 2.
- Franklin County Times
The city of Southfield [MI] recently launched Destination Southfield, a collection of Geographic Information System -based sites that provide up-to-date interactive maps and information about city services, parks and polling locations. The information can be found at http://maps.cityofsouthfield.com/destinationsouthfield.
With Destination Southfield, the city has become one of the first communities in the country to take advantage of Environmental Systems Research Institute's local government common information model. ArcGIS for Local Government includes a series of maps and apps that are designed to work together across various city departments.
Silverlight. Interesting "hide and seek" menus.
- Hometown Life
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/09 at 03:00 AM |
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Tuscaloosa held its Fire and Rescue Service’s fall awards ceremony Thursday. Among the recipients of the Fire Chief’s Commendation, which honors citizens who exhibit outstanding achievement, community service and citizenship was a GIS professional during the April tornado.
[Eric] St. Clair, a senior GIS specialist with the Geological Survey of Alabama State Oil and Gas Board, spent hours making maps of storm areas to assist different agencies and created an iPhone/iPad application used by search and rescue teams. The nomination letter stated that he “dropped everything you were working on to make maps of all sizes. These maps were in every command center within days and were used by many different agencies.”
- Tuscaloosa News
A Detroit non-profit has created an interactive guide to 13,000 tax delinquent city properties that will be offered for sale by Wayne County at an online auction scheduled for later this month.
Last month’s online property auction raised $1.8 million for the county. The next auction gets underway on Oct. 21. The minimum bid on a property is $500.
The Data Driven Detroit guide offers street level views of the properties along with descriptions and information about the distances to the nearest park, bus stop and grocery store.
- Michigan Messenger
York County, PA is working to make the EPA hazardous material map more accurate than it is today. A resident found errors after a fire and made it his mission to make the corrections, many of which I suspect are geocoding errors. The EPA, happily will take such submissions and actually does make the updates.
- York Daily Record
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The Mayor Huntsville, AL is looking for ideas to improve the city.
You can submit your ideas through an interactive map on the city's website, huntsvilleal.gov/downtownideas/, or via a new Facebook page, "Bright Ideas: Downtown Huntsville."
The city also plans to place a chalkboard on various downtown street corners over the next few weeks where passersby can write their suggestions.
- Al.com
Hollaback!, which launched as an app and website where victims of sexual abuse could report incidents, plans to launch a new app in March 2012 that will let bystanders report cases of sexual harassment as well.
The new network will be called "I've Got Your Back," and the group is currently raising money for the project through the crowd-funding site IndieGoGo.
The group is crowdsourcing funding and data to empower those victimized by sexual harassment. The goal is not prosecution of perpetrators, but awareness and empowerment.
- CNN
Australians are using their own version of SeeClickFix called Snap Send Solve. It's from Melbourne tech developer Outware Mobile. It's Iphone only now, but an Android version is coming. While SCF has ArcGIS Server at the back end, it's not clear what powers SSS.
- FutureGov
by Adena Schutzberg on 06/29 at 02:33 AM |
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Franklin County, AL put its GIS to good use after a tornado struck. But it would not have had the resource unless action happened in 2008.
The system started with David Palmer, Franklin County highway engineer, convincing 14 local entities to buy into the system back in 2008 that cost $350,000 in grants and local funds.
This year the challenge was hiring a GIS, which after some tabling was funded.
- Times Daily
Franklin County PA is still in need of a county GIS and basemap.
"We think this is the most important investment for the county in its future," said L. Michael Ross, president of Franklin County Area Development Corp. "We are the only county between Dauphin County and Frederick County, Va., that does not have a base map. As we start to plan for growth, we anticipate that we will need the best planning tools. This is it."
- Chambersburg Public Opinion
Arizona is having redistricting map-a-thons!
The folks at the Competitive Districts Coalition are holding a series of “Map-a-Thons” around the state to educate members of the public about the redistricting process.
- Tuscson Citizen
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/27 at 04:34 AM |
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