The Texas Forest Service and Texas A&M University have unveiled a new Web application that will forewarn residents when conditions are ripe for wildfire. The free application — dubbed TxWRAP — is designed to help homeowners and communities determine wildfire risk so they can act before a wildfire strikes. IT's Esri, Bing and DTS Agile based. The public viewer uses the term map themes along with map layers. Does the public know what a map theme is?
- Longview New-Journal
There was a good bit of buzz (at least on this blog) about Michigan signing on with Microsoft for aerial imagery in 2009. Now one county that submitted an intent to participate in year 3 (this year) is getting in on the deal.
Ogemaw County’s Geographic Information System (GIS) aerial photographs will be getting upgraded this year, but some townships’ aerial photos may not be revised.
The Board of Commissioners approved the purchase of aerial photography from Bing Maps during its April 26 meeting. The photography will be up to date, as the last aerial photos were taken 15 years ago, said Equalization Director John Awrey. Awrey added the new photography, scheduled for this spring, will have a much higher resolution.
Awrey said purchasing the upgraded files for the county’s GIS system costs $16,100, with eight townships providing a combined $4,600 for the files and the county paying the rest of the bill.
- Ogemaw County Herald
Pinellas County (Florida) Commissioners unanimously approved a six-year $2.46 million contract April 24 with Esri. The county will consolidate and standardize on Esri products since the current system includes a mix of products, some of which are outdated and unsupported. There is bad news for resellers and other vendors per a report from Property Appraiser Pam Dubov, BTS Director Paul Alexander and Purchasing Manager Joe Lauro, all members of the EGIS committee.
Since the county invested heavily in this software product, it was prudent to leverage the established close working relationship with ESRI [sic] to negotiate directly on a non-competitive basis and bypass potential resellers of the product line.
From what I understand it's a four year deal where the county get "all you can eat." In the fourth year the county must inventory its licenses for use in determining how much it will pay for perpetual licensing.
- Tampa Bay Newspapers
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/01 at 04:09 AM |
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The new map is based on the Flex API and avaialble here. It uses a Bing basemap but I was unable to access it due to a huge splashscreen which I could not dismiss. This happens on my laptop now and again... (Safari, MacOS X if you are wondering...and no I don't want to change my resolution.)
- Aviation News
The Flex Viewer is also in use in Nashua, NH where it's showing off the new Broad Street Parkway Project. It's a software launch as the city is still tweaking details about what parcels still need to be acquired.
- Nahsua Patch
The San Bernardino Associated Governments is looking at the environmental impacts of extending train service from the city into Redlands, including stops near Esri, the movie theatre and the University of Redlands. Trains may run by 2018.
- San Bernardino County Sun
And Esri has gotten approval for a new parking lot.
- Redlands Daily Facts
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/26 at 04:45 AM |
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GreenUp DC is part of the city’s overall effort to get citizens to become active participants in Mayor Vincent Gray’s sustainability initiatives, and to track performance of various environmental programs, according to the District Department of the Environment (DDOE).
Esri built it.
- GCN
Suffield, CT has a new online map powered by ArcGIS Online. While the parcels in the online map are from Jan 2012, the download data date to 2010.
- Suffield Patch
MappingLondon.co.uk, hosts a map of the exact route of every individual daily bus journey including all stops. That's 114,000 bus journeys. The mapping is by the folks at University College London. You can get the gory details in this blog post.
- Via The Guardian
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/19 at 03:00 AM |
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Lawrie Jordan, director of imagery at Esri, and special assistant to Jack Dangermond, gave the keynote address at the SPAR International conference on Monday in Houston.
Jordon touched on more than a few GIS trends he is seeing, including the “convergence” of GIS and 3D imaging technology, an uptick in cloud computing, and a “stunning” increase in the use of mobile technology.
- Spar Point Group
Esri data is behind Smithsonian Magazine's list of the top 20 small towns in the United States.
To help create our list, we asked the geographic information systems company Esri tosearch its data bases for high concentrations of museums, historic sites, botanic gardens, resident orchestras, art galleries and other cultural assets common to big cities. But we focused on towns with populations less than 25,000, so travelers could experience what might be called enlightened good times in an unhurried, charming setting. We also tried to select towns ranging across the lower 48.
Esri's ArcGIS Online is behind the maps in
America Revealed, a new PBS series. I watched a bit of one episode - and it moved waaay too slowly for me to be engaged.
- via @JosephKerski who wrote on Twitter
"America Revealed" PBS documentary that beginning 11 April; includes graphics using ArcGIS Online!
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/18 at 03:00 AM |
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With the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic upon us, please click on the attached link for the Esri map that plots the geography, class, and fate of the passengers on the ship.
Some key results: First-class passengers were primarily from affluent European and American cities, while the bulk of third-class travelers were immigrants, many from far-flung locations including Scandinavia, Ireland, Bulgaria, and Lebanon. More than 60% of first-class passengers survived, while only 27% of steerage passengers escaped death.
- Esri Communications
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/12 at 10:24 AM |
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