Podcast: A Hallway Conversation with Chris Markuson, GIS Manager and GISCorps Volunteer

In March Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg learned about a geospatial profession who is splitting his time between serving as the GIS manager for a Colorado County and serving as a volunteer with GISCorps helping the United Nations build a GIS to address the rebuilding of Haiti. Chris Markusun shares the chllenges and rewards of his dual lifestyle.


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First American Takes on the National Cadastre and Risk Management (#ESRIUC)

I had some questions about a few announcements from First American Spatial Solutions on ParcelPoint, its national cadastral database and its new product offering, Risk Analysis Solution for ArcGIS with ESRI, so I was lucky to sit down with Scott Little, Executive VP during the conference.

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Times-Picayune: How New Orleans is Shrinking

One key stat in the first few paragraphs of an article exploring the challenges of managing the shrinking city:

ESRI, a leading market research firm, projects New Orleans will gain only 15,000 residents in the next five years.

The city now has about 300,000 residents, down to about 1/2 its peak population of 627,000 in 1960. Now, here’s the part that I didn’t know: “About half of the population loss of the past 50 years happened before the levees breached.”

Best Name So Far for iPhone LBS Apps: Carticipate

Carticipate is a free LBS app for finding other with whom to share rides. Only a few weeks old it suffers from the big challenge for LBS: reaching critical mass.

- Huffington Post

Location of Katrina Deaths Upends Previous Assumptions

The work was done by Knight Ridder and suggests that many of the assumptions about those who died in Katrina are perhaps misplaced.

Knight Ridder took addresses where bodies were recovered from data from Louisiana state officials and and plotted them on maps of Orleans and St. Bernard parishes. Those locations were then compared with census data on income in those neighborhoods. A number of bodies were excluded including those recovered from hospitals and nursing homes, and body collection points.

What does the study show?

- the victims weren’t disproportionately poor
- they also weren’t disproportionately African American
- the elderly were disproportionately impacted though many had cars in the driveway

- Knight Ridder via The Olympian