Boston's latest Code for America rollout is a map where residents can claim and name a local hydrant to shovel after snow storms.
- Boston.com
Esri's Ryan Lanclos writes about its new ArcGIS Add-in for Ushahidi.
This add-in allows you to connect to a Ushahidi instance with the API enabled, convert text between languages, and download the Ushahidi data into a geodatabase. This opens up the feed of data being captured in Ushahidi to the rich spatial and temporal analysis tools within ArcGIS allowing users to empower action and inform decision makers using a sound scientific approach.
- Ushahidi Blog
The Guardian is looking for input to update its map of the "still active" Occupy protests around the world.
- The Guardian
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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.
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Redlands dietician Amanda Frye has created a Web map and poll that can answer those questions and provide critical nutritional information at the same time.
Just last week Frye and the Wimpfheimer-Guggenheim Fund for International Exchange in Nutrition, Dietetics and Management launched the "
Lunch Break" Web map, a poll and map that provides a unique look at lunchtime eating patterns.
It's Esri-powered and after a week had hundreds of responses, but Frye is looking for thousands.
Clinical Trials GPS (http://www.clinicaltrialsgps.com) was created to provide individuals with the most comprehensive, up to date information about ongoing clinical drug trials, as well as a quick and easy way to participate.
Visitors to the site can search for the latest clinical trials in their area, browse through the directory of clinical trial facilities, read educational articles to learn more about the various conditions treated by clinical trials, or speak with a clinical trials expert at (877) 330-2919.
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Today the Worcester County [MD] Health Department launched an innovative, Web portal to enhance health decision-making by providing community stakeholders, families and individuals with key local health data and resources in an easy-to-read format.
The Worcester County Network of Care for Healthy Communities, http://WorcesterHealth.networkofcare.org, provides a directory of all health services, a leading health library and encyclopedia, social networking, legislative tools, nationwide news, personal health records, and much more. ...
The site integrates local health data into more than 100 local health and quality-of-life indicators specific to Worcester County. For example, for a topic such as obesity, users can view current county values, trending and comparison to national targets, ranking compared to other areas in the state, and related GIS maps.
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In an effort to gather accurate data for the study, [U Maryland doctoral student Ed] Kruse wants to distribute 2,500 questionnaires over the next few months with aid from the [advisory] committee.
"I only want to look at people who have lived in this area at some point in time and come down with cancer," Kruse said, noting that he will exclude cancer cases that developed away from Fort Detrick.
His study is looking for residents with a consistent residential history near disposal Area B at Fort Detrick. In addition, Kruse plans to ask residents with no cancer history to fill out a questionnaire, committee members said.
The study is not in connection with a current lawsuit and will try to work differently than other studies, including by the use of a lat/lon grid vs. ZIP Code boundaries for sampling.-
- Frederick News-Post Online
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Dr. Christopher Sutton, professor of geography at Western Illinois University, delivered the ninth annual John Hallwas Liberal Arts Lecture, entitled "Geography Matters! The Importance of Geographic Literacy in Liberal Arts Education."
- The Western Courier
Claremont Graduate University’s (CGU) School of Information Systems and Technology (SISAT) and Esri are offering more than $70,000 in scholarships and cash prizes to students and grads who build apps for the Student GIS Challenge competition. The apps, Esri tech prefered must relate to one of two challenge areas: public health and humanitarian issues or transportation safety.
There are cash awards and scholarship fund to pursue an advanced degree concentrating on GIS in SISAT at CGU.
Eligibility:
- Applicant must be eligible for undergraduate graduation by June, 2012 or have graduated after January 2010.
- For the CGU School of Information Systems and Technology (SISAT) GIS Tuition scholarship: applicant must meet the academic requirements for admission to CGU in general, and SISAT specifically. Please see SISAT requirements.
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The New York Times Learning Network offers suggestoins of how to use its crowdsourcing "where were you on 9/11 map" in education.
- New York Times
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The State of Vermont, hard hit by flooding after hurrcane Irene, has a map (CrowdMap again) where locals can post damage and "needed" information. It's unclear who posted the map or who is monitoring it. That's becoming all to common in such efforts.
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Wheelmap is an attempt to address the accessibility problem. An app designed by Raul Krauthausen, who is himself a wheelchair user, the app uses an open source database to construct a map showing which stores, theaters and tourist attractions are wheelchair accessible. The app (for iPhones) is free and users contribute to the database, either via the app or the web site.
RIght now most data is in Germany and there's a new version for Japan. A worldwide one would be so awesome!
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At the beginning of 2011, the [Los Angeles Unified School District] LAUSD launched a pilot crowdsourcing program that has resulted in 1,000 repair requests in the first eight months of the year. That's a drop in the bucket compared with the nearly 250,000 requests the district gets every year. However, Kurt Daradics, cofounder and director of business development for CitySourced in Los Angeles, which markets the crowdsourcing app, said that, once fully implemented, it could cut the district's maintenance request-processing expenses by 80 percent.
Esri is moving from teaching GIS in schools to using GIS in schools. I'm thinking there's more money in the latter than the former.
- THE Journal
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