A new map pinpoints well-defined areas of the Eastern United States where humans have the highest risk of contracting Lyme disease, one of the most rapidly emerging infectious diseases in North America, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. researchers found high infection risk confined mainly to the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Upper Midwest and low risk in the South. The results were published in the February issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
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How do you figure out where to off teen health services in Gaston, North Carolina?
To decide where the satellite services were needed, officials used county GIS mapping data to see where teenage clients live. An emphasis was placed on pinpointing teens classified as being “at-risk” for not getting the services they need, [ the health department’s medical director, Velma] Taormina said.
“Gastonia had the most teens, but there were also hot spots around the county,” she said. “To address that, we chose to expand our clinical services for teens to those Bessemer City and Cherryville locations. Teens there may have transportation issues with getting to Gastonia.”
- Gaston Gazette
Billed as the first official British Columbia government mobile application, the BC Health Services Locator launched Monday on Apple's iTunes app store.
- Vancouver Sun
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/07 at 05:45 AM |
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A team of researchers at the University of Ulster’s Magee campus has created a unique online resource that sheds new light on the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’.
The £260K Arts & Humanities Research Council-funded project - called Visualising the Conflict – combines an extensive archive of information about memorials, including images, and information about deaths during the Troubles with geographical and internet technologies such as Second Life, Google Earth and Google StreetView to give an enhanced insight into the spatial dimensions of the Northern Ireland conflict.
It launched January 20th.
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According to [Associate Professor Dr. Michelle] Ferrier [of the School of Communications at Elon University], media deserts are geographic or topical hotspots that lack consistent news and information sources. Ferrier, who is a local food advocate, saw the value of the USDA’s food map for mobilizing community action and uses the news as food metaphor for her research. Ferrier is working with Assistant Professor Dr. Ryan Kirk in the Department of Environmental Studies at Elon to visualize the impact of the changing media landscape using GIS mapping technologies. This spring, students in Kirk’s applied GIS class will be tackling the North Carolina media landscape to create a prototype for a national map.
- Locally Grown News
A group of kids armed with GPS devices is taking community service to a new high-tech level. In Canandaigua, the 4-H Geoseekers learn geospatial science while giving back to their community.
The group is in the process of mapping every street sign in the city of Canandaigua. That’s because the Federal Highway Administration has mandated that every city have an inventory of its street signs.
- MPNNow
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/24 at 06:07 AM |
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Cleveland's GIS was expected in 2009 but finally went online in June 2011. There are seven different ArcGIS Server-based Flash/Flex apps on the Bing basemap. The local paper notes some limitations related to overlaying maps and up-to-date data on crime. The project came in, despite its delay, under the $31 million budget. Coming soon: the end of a $199/month contract for crime data.
- Cleveland.com
The names of NC 24 towns were printed in white instead of black in 10 percent of all 2011 DOT maps due to a "computer glitch."
New software is to blame, but it's not clear why just the town on that stretch of road were basically invisible. The tiny town of Zebulon (pop 4000) had a very vocal citizenry (officials were not aware of the problem) who let the state DOT know of the issue.
- News Observer
The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources offers aerial images collected between December 2009 and April 2010 to the public for use in assessing flood damage resulting from Tropical Storm Lee. The data is for Bradford, Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Sullivan, Susquehanna and Wyoming counties. i-cubed agreed to waive a restriction that would have limited the data to governmental-use only until next June. The data are available at this website (choose PAMAP 2010 Imagery Service Now Available).
- Gant Daily
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/28 at 03:00 AM |
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Dovel has released MyFoodAlerts.com.
The application uses public feeds from FDA, USDA, and CFIA and, using semantic technology, analyzes recall data. The application then translates the information into a user-friendly map interface accessible at myFoodAlerts.com. Data about the feed is also published into the data.gov format.
And, no, I do not know what the data.gov format is...
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Water Canary analyzes water samples by using light and measuring what wavelengths to draw conclusions. A red light flashes to alert the user to a potential water problem.
The idea is not to use the device (currently built by hand and running about $200) to test water, but rather to collect data points for further investigation. The device was shown off at TED.
- Mashable
A study used GIS to explore the impact of avgas (a type of gas used in aircraft) on levels in the blood of children near airports in NC that use it. The FAA is looking at regulations on the gas.
Methods: We used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to approximate areas surrounding airports in which lead from avgas may be present in elevated concentrations in air and may also be deposited to soil. We then used regression analysis to examine the relationship between residential proximity to airports and NC blood lead surveillance data in children aged 9 months to 7 years while controlling for factors including age of housing, socioeconomic characteristics, and seasonality.
The result suggest higher levels in the blood for children up to 1000M from the airport with the most pronounced effect within 500M.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 07/18 at 03:00 AM |
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Republican lawmakers have pulled the plug on the state’s landslide mapping unit, terminating a controversial project to assess which slopes in the mountains are landslide prone.
A team of five state geologists working on the maps are being laid-off this week, saving the state $355,000 a year.
- Smokey Mountain News
Indianapolis is latest city to get a mobile app to report issues that need attention to the city. It started as a Web portal last June.
The city of Indianapolis announced the new RequestIndy mobile app Tuesday morning. It allows residents to report problems and to request city services from the Mayor's Action Center.
- WXIN TV
The City of Austin has a new crime viewer, but it's not one of the national services I'd heard of (like CrimeReports.com). It does use SliverLight, though. It uses to be using a tool called RAIDS (free for law enforcement and the public) from Bair Software and built on Google Maps.
- Austin Chronicle
by Adena Schutzberg on 07/08 at 03:00 AM |
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