The Berrien County, Michigan, Geographic Information System (GIS) is holding a seminar to introduce its new GIS provded by Schnieder Corporation. The session is free (I think), but using the GIS is not.
The cost of using the GIS website is $15 per day or $50 per month plus a processing fee compared to the previous website price of $10 per hour plus a processing fee.
- Niles Star
There are allegations the tourism board in Joplin, MO is handing out maps to encourage visitors to the tornado ravaged area. Officials say the map was created to respond to direct requests, rather than to promote such visits.
- Joplin Globe
Moscow has spent 20 billion roubles on its own map, hoping it will be used to crowdsource data on streetlight outages and the like. It should be online next month at atlas.mos.ru. The city feels maps from Google and Yandex can't do that job. I think Esri is doing the mapping.
Sergei Scherbina, Deputy Director at ESRI CIS- Moscow map service developer says the Moscow informational site will be updated frequently with more information and services for users.
Open data proponents are wary of the new map and how embeddable it may be.
- RT
The City Council of Bainbridge, GA has an agreement with the University of Georgia's Carl Vinson Institute of Government to develop a GIS (Geographic Information System) for the City. The $45,000 will put 7,300 parcels online in about four months.
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/19 at 02:59 AM |
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The Swansea University [UK] project will capture details of those living with MS such as when they were diagnosed, their symptoms and help they receive.
The MS Society said by knowing more about how people are affected, care and research can be targeted better.
- Registry
- BBC
Woolworth's in Australia now offers an app to help people report found shopping carts (they call them trolleys). Everyone who reports one is entered in a monthly $1000 drawing.
Trolley Services Australia developed the app which works in conjunction with its existing Trolley Tracker hotline and website. The app uses the phone’s inbuilt GPS systems to locate the position of the lost trolley.
- Techworld
The U.S. government has mandated a move of many IT services to the cloud. Among them are upcomimg services from NASA that includes crowdsourcing.
NASA is launching Climate@Home, which will let users will help quantify uncertainty in existing weather and climate models. This service will allow NASA to collaborate directly with citizens in using NASA’s Earth Science data and modelling capabilities.
- FutureGov
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/27 at 05:15 AM |
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