The Korea Times has a feature on Yoon Jay-joon (Jay Yoon), CEO of Sundosoft, a large GIS player in the country. One of the graphics is of a box of ArcGIS 9. I guess 10 is not yet out there.
- Korea Times
Panasonic's new GPS enabled cameras may not work quite right in China. How and exactly why is not clear, but apparently geotagging is illegal in that country.
- GPS Tracklog
Mackenzie District Council in New Zealand is fight against bad GIS data.
"During the last revaluation, it was discovered the information we sent to our valuers was incorrect. This was due to multiple users creating different copies of the data, manipulating the information and treating it as correct," Mr Morris said.
"If council chose to do nothing, the GIS information will get progressively worse.
But the local government does not want to put a dedicated outside person in charge of cleaning up the data. Instead, it's looking into a shared position.
- Stuff.co.nz
The Doolin Coast Guard team in Co Clare Ireland will be the only such unit in the country with a GIS. It'll be run on tablets to increase efficiency in response and planning.
The system also contains up to date information on the locations of caves, popular surfing spots and other areas where the team might be requested to respond to an incident.
It will also aid in incident planning as it contains information such as radio reception blackspots, access routes and helicopter landing sites.
- Clare Herald
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/08 at 03:00 AM |
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Dr Van Sickle left CDC and founded a company, Asthmapolis, which is based in Madison, Wisconsin. The result is Spiroscout, an inhaler with a built-in Global Positioning System locator and (in advanced models) a wireless link to the internet.
It's not the first such inhaler, but it's far smaller than past versions and it has at least two benefits: indications for individuals about their own use and crowdsourced data (stripped of identifying details) for a broader look at usage patterns.
- The Economist
Environmental access to PA [physical activity] resources (determined via GIS-based assessment of the number of gyms, schools, trails, parks and athletic fields within 0.5 miles of each participant's home) moderated the association between social support and PA; among adolescents with high levels of environmental resources, greater social support was associated with students participating in a greater number of sports in school, whereas no such relationship emerged among adolescents with low environmental resources.
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011, 8:34 via 7th Space
The authors, Richard Layte of the ESRI [Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin, Ireland] and colleagues, say the results showed that as the distance to the nearest supermarket increased, it was accompanied by a small but significant decrease in the healthiness of a person's diet.
This is the first time that this link has been established in research outside the US, where healthy 'food deserts' have been found in areas of social deprivation.
- Irish Heatlh
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/21 at 04:54 AM |
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