...a new website that showcases Sacramento County’s green strategies, achievements and helpful information. The website – Green Sacramento County – features an interactive map to pinpoint green activity and provides constituents with green news, tips and resources.
You can choose different base maps including Google and Esri streets.
- Sacremento Press
The board [Coweta County, GA] approved an agreement with TomTom North America for GIS data. The county has agreed to provide the GIS data to the GPS and mapping companies for free in order to help speed the updates reflecting the new names of Walt Sanders Memorial Drive (International Park) and Walt Sanders Memorial Court (Enterprise Court).
- Times Herald
In 2011, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) launched the National Broadband Map (NBM), a tool local governments can use to determine the level broadband access in their communities. Join [National League of Cities] NLC and NTIA on January 25 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time for a webinar, entitled The National Broadband Map: An Economic Development Tool for Cities which will show how cities can use this tool and provide feedback so it can be further enhanced to suit their needs.
- NLC.org
[Ottawa/Carleton] OC Transpo [Ontario, CA] should open its bus-location data to outside programmers the same day it launches its own application to tell riders when their buses are due, says Councillor Stephen Blais, and he intends to present a motion to the city's transit commission at its next meeting on Thursday to force the company to do it.
- Ottawa Citizen
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The The Earth Exploration Toolbook look like a great earth science and GIS tool:
To enable responsible decision-making in the future and to ensure the development of the next generation of scientists, students must develop the skills that enable them to explore scientific questions, assess the results of scientific research, and draw and communicate conclusions to others. These skills are essential as society faces science and engineering challenges, including the need to understand and respond to the impacts of changes in Earth's climate.
One way to help students develop these skills is to involve them in exploring scientific questions using the same data and data analysis tools that scientists use. The Earth Exploration Toolbook (EET,http://serc.carleton.edu/eet) is a freely available online resource made up of investigations or “chapters” that help teachers and their students become competent data users (1).
- Science Mag
The [U Maryland] school of architecture recently received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce, which will help allow researchers to create this interactive computer model that maps inventors across the state and connects them to potential manufacturers and agencies. Beforehand, many inventions were flying under the radar because manufacturers didn't know they existed — and project co-principal investigator Scott Dempwolf said he hopes this 3-D analytical tool will change that.
What started out as a golf cart has transformed into a mobile unit that will map points for the Geographic Information Systems and Global Positioning System.
The machine, named Earth Rover, is a learning tool for students that can collect and survey points to create maps of potentially anywhere on the planet.
The Earth Rover recently completed its first successful test run on the campus of Texas State Technical College.
The article on the Rover goes on to compare it to the Google Car and notes how this impelementation can "using the example of a fire hydrant, the Earth Rover, with accompanying technology, can provide information about when it was installed, what brand it is, and its exact location." I suspect that refers to the database created with the rover, not the rover's technology itself. For now the Rover will do its work at the college, but there is interest from local municipalities to use it for data capture.
- Brownsville Herald
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Trulia most folks have likely heard of; the company wants to making finding a residence easier with data and maps: Movity aggregates the geodata from a variety of sources and uses it to provide rich insights into any location. Movity is still in beta and does sort of the same thing, with a focus on more kinds of data (“geo-data, local comments, conversations, safety
stats, demographics, noise”) but also with a focus on maps and visualization. One of the folks is from cartography/design superstar Stamen Designs and the company is probably best know for WeePlaces.com, which I’ve mentioned before (1,2). It’s business model: advertising.
With the acquisition Trulia is moving to downtown San Francisco (so the staff can go to all those LBS conferences, no doubt!)
- Trulia Blog (Exactly no comments to the post as of 7:30 am EST, though this was announced yesterday. I’m not sure if folks don’t care, don’t understand or are busy with the holidays…)
- SF Business Times
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/22 at 06:16 AM |
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This month’s State of the Map US teamed with mappers, but not so many GIS professionals. A webinar on Esri’s Community Maps program drew 800 attendees just last week. Why are mappers and GIS pros choosing to give their data to one project or the other and what are the implications?
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