[Chicago Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Tom] Byrne said the blitzing now permits crews to trim 20 trees a day instead of 14.
The maps are based both on observation by city employees and by callers to the city’s 311 non-emergency line. Byrne said that in less than four months, use of the program has reduced the number of backlogged tree-trimming requests from 30,000 to 23,000, with a blitz taking place in each of the city’s 50 wards roughly twice a month.
...Byrne said it saves on manpower, fuel and mechanical wear and addresses complaints more quickly.
The app was first used to map crime, now tree trimming requests. Next up: graffitti.
- CBS Chicago
2011 NAIP 1 meter, 4 band aerial photography is now available in Image Server (image.agrc.utah.gov). This imagery was acquired statewide in the summer of 2011 as a part of the National Agriculture Imagery Program and is also available for FTP download as well.
- Utah GIS Portal
The county will now offer its global information mapping services at no cost to area school corporations.
Allen County commissioners approved a new membership agreement with Fort Wayne Community Schools today that will eliminate the fees the county normally charges for sharing mapping information, said Dave Estes, who manages the county’s GIS office.
The legislation that requires those fees has retricted the county from contributing to IndianaMap, the state's map.
- Journal Gazette (I contacted the paper about the expansion of "GIS" above)
"Investigators consider making map of arson fires" is the headline in the local paper in Kamploops, BC. They have a list of the suspicious fires. I wonder what they are waiting for?
- Kamloops Daily News
Esri is among those noted in new project cited in a press release from the White House discussing its Global Development Policy.
• A new “app store” for development to spur humanitarian apps and software: USAID has joined forces with today’s leading technology companies to build an “app store” for development-oriented software. The platform will enable public and private technology interventions to be scaled and replicated across multiple countries, programs, and implementers while creating a marketplace of ideas and applications. This partnership will take advantage of the knowledge of “cloud computing experts” from major technology companies such as HP, Cisco, Accenture, and ESRI to increase the productivity and efficiency of USAID’s development assistance.
- fact sheet via @michael_d_gould
