A new website will allow internet users to determine their computer or electronic device’s internet speed and help the state map its broadband coverage as the Abercrombie Administration moves forward with its Hawai’i Broadband Initiative. Participants can take the test at hawaiispeedtest.net. The data collected will assist the state in identifying and closing gaps in service throughout Hawai’i.
I'm not sure why they are behind other states who started such efforts months/years ago.
- press release
The [NY] State Liquor Authority is getting ready to launch a new interactive map, plotting each and every bar licensed in the city as well as all pending applications and violations bars have logged.
The map — which cost $75,000 to create — aims to help residents and community boards keep track of local bars, clubs and lounges in their neighborhoods. The design comes amid growing complaints from residents who believe rowdy bars and noisy drinkers are taking over their block.
The maps will hopefully make the lives of the overworked SLA easier and give residents the information once only available with a formal request.
- DNA Info
Hennepin County, MN offers the first update to its interactive property map in six years. It's based on new Esri software (old version was six years old) and has new data including links to surveyors’ maps, plat maps and survey certificates. Another big change - maps now fill more of the computer screen. The link takes you to the "old version" which has a link to the "new version."
- Finance and Commerce
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/02 at 04:55 AM |
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The Salmon Arm Campus of Okanagan College (British Columbia) is offering the five-month, full-time certificate program in Vernon for the first time starting in January. The requirements are high school graduation or equivalent, or mature student status, and basic computer skills. The school has found significant demand for its other GIS programs which produce candidates ready for the job market. The program website also refers to the certificate as an ArcInfo Certificate.
- BC Local News
Esri has changed the name of the next Education User Conference to the 2012 Esri Education GIS Conference.
via @michael_d_gould
Maui officials adding to the state's list of enterprise software solutions for its students. First Esri, now Google.
Maui Economic Development Board’s Women in Technology (WIT) just negotiated another major software coup for the state’s K-12 schools.
Similar to its unprecedented agreement with ESRI that made the latest Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software available to every public, private and charter school in the state, WIT negotiated a deal with Google to bring its celebrated Sketchup Pro application to local classrooms.
- Maui Now
Lahore [Pakistan] - Government College University, Lahore (GCU) Department of Geography and University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) in collaboration with Penn State University, US conducted a five-day training workshop on “The Application of GIS and GPS Technologies in Public Health Significance”.
- Pakistan Today
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/08 at 03:58 AM |
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