Sacramento Green Map and other Government GIS News

...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

Fees for County GIS (not data) Use and other Government GIS News

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.