Northern Ireland
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) in Northern Ireland is setting up a £9m contract for an enterprise-wide geographic information system (GIS).
It is aimed at correcting shortcomings in the existing GIS and its Land Parcel Information System function, which have been in place since December 2004. The department said the system is also intended to meet a range of requirements for itself and its executive agencies.
The project is part of DARD's EU Audit Compliance Programme aimed at mitigating the risk of EU penalties.
Azerbaijan
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Culture and Tourism Ministry of Azerbaijan has initiated integration of recently released 3D version of Baku at www.baku3d.az with electronic Go Map.
Baku3D company reports that now through online navigator Go Map www.baku3d.az users will have a chance to make virtual tours not only over the country on the whole , but more closely- in parks, museums, mosques, historical monuments, restaurants, hotels, auto salons, entertainment centers located in Baku.
- ABC.az
EU
With the EU ambition that by 2020, 50% of households will have subscriptions of 100 Mbps or faster, and a speed of 30 Mbps be available to all EU citizens, setting in place methods to monitor and measure progress is important. To this end, Point Topic has been commissioned by the EU to map superfast broadband coverage, not on just a country by country basis, but down to the district level across all 27 EU countries, plus Norway and Iceland.
- ThinkBroadband
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/27 at 06:00 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.
- press release
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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