URISA reports that 25 GISCorps volunteers have recently been deployed to 9 new missions in 7 countries including Libya, Indonesia and Samoa.
- URISA News (not sure why it's not a press release)
The Cultural Heritage Administration [Korea] said Thursday it will launch a new information service in March that will pinpoint the location of historic sites and give users information on regulations in places where construction is scheduled.
The service is a revamped and expanded version of the existing Cultural Heritage GIS Service (http://gis-heritage.go.kr). GIS stands for geographic information service. The CHA will finish a pilot run of the new service by next month and officially launch it on March 1.
- Chosun Ilbo
Twitter activity in Africa is tops in South Africa, followed by Kenya, per a study by Portland Communications .
South Africa is the continent’s most active country by volume of geo-located Tweets, with over twice as many Tweets (5,030,226 during the fourth quarter of 2011 followed by Kenya at 2,476,800.
Nigeria 1,646,212), Egypt (1,214,062) and Morocco (745,620) make up the remainder of the top five most active countries on twitter. African Twitter users are active across a range of social media, including Facebook, YouTube, Google+ and LinkedIn.
- Business Daily Africa
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/26 at 04:53 AM |
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While the initial request for scholars appeared earlier this year, this is the first I believe I saw of GeoCrowd, an effort to research user generated geodata processes and train the next generation of scientists who will use those data. The project is based in and seems to be drawing on European talent as it is funded through the European Commission. Esri Redlands and University of Texas at San Antonio, USA are associated partners as are organizations in China, but the rest are from Europe.
geocrowd – “Creating a Geospatial Knowledge World” aims at establishing a fertile research environment by means of a training network that will promote the GeoWeb 2.0 vision and advance the state of the art in collecting, storing, analyzing, processing, reconciling, and making large amounts of semantically rich user-generated geospatial information available on the Web. Specifically, activities will focus on (i) exploiting user-contributed geospatial data, (ii) Web-geodata management and (iii) efficient means for data collection and dissemination, e.g., mobile computing.
Four universities are helping Japan by providing image analysis services. Auburn Montgomery, George Mason University, Clark University and Penn State University students are involved after replying to a call for service from GIS Corps. At AUM:
Winemiller and his students have been doing the work for about a week. They have collected the remote sensing data from the U.S. Geological Survey Hazards Data Distribution Center.
Winemiller and his students have had to pore over many images to find detailed photos with little cloud cover where they can assess damage caused by the quake. Their maps eventually will help with infrastructure planning and other elements of the recovery.
- Montgomery Advertiser
Fourty-five eighth grad boys walk the length of Elysian Fields Avenue in New Orleans to explore its history and geography. The students of Brother Martin High School world geography teacher Melanie Williams carried GPS receivers and digital cameras to document what they found. That data will be included in a report by the Communities by Design panel of the American Institute of Architects, whose conference will be held in New Orleans in May. One interesting note based on how effective low end GPS is at determining elevation:
Students clicked photographs, jotted down observations and measured land elevation with their GPS units as they walked.
- Times Picayune
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/28 at 04:09 AM |
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Seven GISCorps volunteers have been deployed to a remote mission in the Caribbean. The request for volunteers was made by MapAction, a UK based non profit volunteer organization with whom we signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in January 2011. The volunteers will be involved in data mining, collation and cleansing of GIS datasets related to Saint Lucia, Belize, and Bermuda and will be working closely with the MapAction teams in the UK and Caribbean. The GISCorps volunteers for this phase are:
Anneka Imkamp, California
Kyung Kim, Virginia
Kevin Mayall, Bermuda
Tia Morita, California
Keith Olson, Colorado Nathan Pugh, Utah
Jacob Spuck, Florida
Good luck and be safe!
- GIS Corps
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/09 at 08:58 AM |
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