...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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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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July saw more than its share of acquisitions in the geospatial domain. Among the players involved were large companies with household names like Nokia and Facebook, and smaller ones only known in tighter circles, including NextStop and Photo Science. Our editors review the deals and offer predictions on their success.
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ESRI has introduced a program to integrate users’ authoritative imagery, street data and topography into its basemaps delivered via ArGIS.com and other means. Is this the way your jurisdiction should consider data sharing? What are the other options? Our editors have a look at the benefits and challenges of ESRI’s program and list off some of the other options available.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 06/22 at 01:00 AM |
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An article about the merging of data.gov with geodata.gov prompted many in the geospatial community to note concerns about the U.S. government’s transparency, contracting, and relationships with vendors. What made for all the consternation? And what can we learn from this episode? Our editors recapped what happened, what their further research reveals and what they see as the “take aways"for the parties involved.
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