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Tagged: cloud computing

Thursday, January 19, 2012

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 | Comments | Bookmark and Share

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Inside Idaho API: The service delivers geospatial data to support mapping of resources within the state of Idaho. Compliant with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards, the platform uses ArcGIS and other resources to promote sharing of data, effective communication, and activity coordination among state agencies and other government units. Applications can use the service to map biological and environmental features, climatology, structures, and other featurs of the state.

API methods support mapping of animal and plant species, elevation and other geological features, and climatic conditions. Applications can also map jurisdictional boundaries, transportation resources, structures, and other prominent infrastructure within Idaho

ParkingInMotion API: ParkingInMotion is an application that provides parking data and information in real-time. ParkingInMotion covers parking information in around 500 cities in the US, Canada, and Europe. Parking information includes locations, rates, hours of operation, and entrance points of parking locations.

The ParkingInMotion API allows developers to access and integrate the data and functionality of ParkingInMotion with other applications. Public documentation is not available; interested developers should email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for API information and access.

United Nations SWERA API: The SWERA service, from the United Nations, provides data about renewable energy resources worldwide. It provides geographic information system (GIS) and time-series data compiled by international experts and in-country partners. The service helps to promote applications of solar and wind energy technologies and support decision-making about available resources and likely energy production for a location.

API methods allow specification of a location by latitude and longitude along with desired data, including solar irradiance and angle, wind speeds, and related information as recorded by a number of national repositories. Methods are also available to retrieve climate data such as temperature, heating and cooling degree days, humidity, and barometric pressure.

HAMweather Aeris API: HAMweather is a site that provides traditional weather content such as local weather and weather maps. HAMweather's core product is Aeris an API that provides the necessary weather data to power services such as hosted weather sites and weather application development. The API gives developers access to data such as weather advisories, forecasts, geographic locations, storm reports and more. It uses RESTful calls and responses are formatted in JSON and JSONP.

RouteSavvy API: The service accepts a list of locations and generates a map of the most efficient sequence and route for reaching all of them, either in a roundtrip returning to the starting place or one way with first and last stops designated. It helps delivery, transit, or other routing functions to reach required stops as efficiently as possible, avoiding unnecessary backtracking.

API methods accept the route type (roundtrip or one way) and the starting and ending locations, specified as latitude and longitude, along with each of the stops that must be included. The service returns the locations specified listed in the optimal sequence.

- Programmable Web

by Adena Schutzberg on 01/18 at 02:59 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Tuesday’s press release from Autodesk regarding its new relationship with Pitney Bowes Software (PBS, the new name as of January 1, 2012 for Pitney Bowes Business Insights) raised many questions. Joe Francica and I spoke with James Buckley, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Customer Data & Location Intelligence, Pitney Bowes Software and Rich Humphrey, Director of Civil Infrastructure in the AEC Division at Autodesk on Tuesday night to try to tease out some answers.

Continue reading...

by Adena Schutzberg on 01/10 at 03:18 PM | Comments | Bookmark and Share

Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Here are the interim details of our poll to date. There is still time to cast your opinion.

  • Yes...fully implemented: 22%
  • We use some cloud; some desktop: 35%
  • Still using desktop or server solutions: 38%
  • Cloud isn't ready to handle geospatial: 5%

by Joe Francica on 01/04 at 05:59 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share
Narrow your search further: cloud computing, geospatial technology, saas

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Ok, well, you might have heard of them, but I have not heard of Crimedar, Mapacrime and Sgo (SureteGlobale.Org). CloudTweak cites them as the crime mapping startups to watch in 2012.

CrimeDar is built on Bing and Silverlight and includes a crowdsourcing component, but has limited coverage (mostly in Michigan) with offical police and their data.

SGO appears to be a services company moving on to products. Per CloudTweak, a KML analysis file to be used on the platform of your choice. The solution is for law enforcement rather than the public, and will include crime analytics and hotspot analysis. The company is based in France.

Mapacrime is an offshoot of HarassMap (which is itself build on CrowdMap, which is built on Ushahidi) and uses crowdsourced information to track crimes in Pakistan.

It's hard to imagine any of these unseating CrimeMapping.com, CrimeReports and other efforts gathering momentum at least here in the U.S.

- CloudTweaks

by Adena Schutzberg on 12/28 at 03:00 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share
Narrow your search further: cloud computing, crime, location based services

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