Northwest Arctic Borough (Alaska) Mayor Siikauraq Whiting announced a $1.8 million grant to conduct a 4-year project documenting and mapping subsistence uses and habitats in the region.
This project will also create a place for sharing existing data, maps, traditional knowledge and studies combined in a geographic information system (GIS) database and updated with the latest scientific information. The database will identify important ecological areas and potential resource development areas of the region to protect subsistence.
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The subsistence mapping project is funded with qualified outer continental shelf oil and gas revenues by the Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP), Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, U.S. Department of Interior. Additional funding is provided through the Oak Foundation, an organization that works to make communities stronger.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice announced it is suing the owner of Fun Treasure Maps, Ed Zapencki, for ripping off hundreds of small business owners.
I guess the old mapping scam never gets old. I just wonder if the electronic version has taken off yet?
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GIS analyst Trapolino is
...also a volunteer firefighter in Eudora, he knows when addresses, maps and dispatch communications don't mesh, trouble begins: "I've gone to a trailer park with just a lot number, and that's not enough. You can drive past a home four times and miss it. You can always see smoke and fire, but not an injured man who's down inside." He and GIS director Hanks are helping put DeSoto [County, MS, corrected per comment, was "TN"] on the E-911 map as one of the first counties in the state with a unified, computer-aided dispatch system that utilizes "point addresses" to pinpoint emergencies and better direct first responders. With this system in place, a call to a trailer park would pull up data that includes private road crossings to precisely place the lot number. The two-man GIS office expects the address collection and verification effort, aided by volunteers, to be completed by the end of the year.
“I cannot possibly relate how efficient this program is,” Sandpoint Planning Director Jeremy Grimm told the Administrative Committee. “The level of added efficiency and time-savings GIS gives us is tremendous."
The big issue for the Bonner County, Idaho is funding for a programmer to help keep the data up to date for the system that went in in 2009.
