Rwanda Development Board (RDB) in partnership with Google, yesterday, commenced the mapping exercise where all tourism attractions in the country will feature on the web.
The two-day event dubbed, Rwanda Tourism MapUp, started with the team's road trip from Kigali where key touristic features were mapped and continued to Musanze and Rubavu districts whose attractions were also added to the Google map list.
About 40 people including GIS professionals helped with the mapping which will be redone annually to insure locations are correct.
- All Africa
The Initiative for Solidarity with Arrested Students released the "Map of Unnamed Students". With this project, the initiative wants to create awareness for judicial and administrative rights violations encountered by students and to make these violations visible. The map also aims at keeping track of the situations of the arrested students.
The idea is to add other incidents to the map and get more information on the known ones.The effort focuses on Turkey and uses CrowdMap.
- Bianet.org
UBC Okanagan and the Central Okanagan Food Policy Council have put together a set of food discussion maps for the Central Okanagan area of British Columbia, Canada. Discussions are "pinned" to their locations and live on four different maps.
Food Experiences: Participants are asked to "Describe your experiences with food on the UBCO campus and in Kelowna."
Food Access: Food stores, food services and other food locations used to explore the question, "Is there food everywhere?"
Agricultural Land: Understanding the agricultural land reserve (ALR).
Community Food: Mapping community gardens, food banks and soup kitchens to discuss the question, "Is there food for everyone?"
The maps are Google-based and at least one class at UBC, Geography 491, was involved.
- press release via @gletham
WWF is asking supporters to identify places that carry or sell paper products made from Sumatran rain forest timber, and then note the location and take pictures using MapHook. Supporters can post a “hook” with their photos on http://www.worldwildlife.org/sites/tigers/toiletpaper-map.html . This site also has information about the paper campaign along with details on how to get started.
The goal is protection of the Sumatran habitat for tigers and other animals.
- press release
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It's spring - and time to capture aerial images before the trees bud! Lancaster County, PA is doing it with NGA and USGS (local paper). Summerland in BC is doing it on its own (local paper).
- various outlets
Governor Pat Quinn, Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle and Mayor Rahm Emanuel today unveiled Socrata-powered http://www.MetroChicagoData.org , the nation's first data convergence cloud that brings public data from the City of Chicago, Cook County and the State of Illinois into a single Open Data portal, for easy access by residents and businesses in the Metro Chicago area.
There is an API, but I don't believe you can download the data.
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The USDA Forest Service's Eastern Forest and Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Centers recently unveiled a product that helps natural resource managers rapidly detect, identify, and respond to unexpected changes in the nation's forests by using web-based tools. ForWarn, a satellite-based monitoring and assessment tool, recognizes and tracks potential forest disturbances caused by insects, diseases, wildfires, extreme weather, or other natural or human-caused events. The tool, available at
http://www.forwarn.forestthreats.org, complements and focuses efforts of existing forest monitoring programs and potentially results in time and cost savings.
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/22 at 04:59 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
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Nanaimo, BC is holding a hackathon for developers to work with the city's and province's data April 30, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Registration is capped at 40 (20 seats are filled) and closes Apri 21.
Examples of some of the data from the city and
Examples of data from the province
- BC Local News via @manomarks
In a product announcement bid aimed at improving Oracle Database developer productivity, the company has this week announced the availability of Oracle SQL Developer 3.0. This graphical tool for database development has been augmented with new migration functionalities designed to appeal to development and database administrator (DBA) tasks. It also introduces support for Oracle Data Mining and Oracle Spatial -- a tool to manage all geospatial data including vector and raster data, topology, and network models.
- Dr. Dobbs
Data Science Toolkit .35 released
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