Finland
The publication late last week by the news magazine Suomen Kuvalehti of a map proposing that the number of municipalities in Finland should be reduced from 336 to about 70 has led to a flurry of explanations, e-mails, and stonewalling.
The map is based on a plan being drawn up by a group of civil servants set up by Minister for Public Administration and Local Government Henna Virkkunen (Nat. Coalition Party). The plan was originally to have been made public in February.
Got to ask my exactly two Finnish friends about that!
- Helsingin Sonamat
Oman
The Ministry of Education (MoE) [Oman] will launch a school web mapping project under the auspices of H E Dr Madeeha bint Ahmed bin Nassir al Shibaniyah, Minister of Education on Wednesday.
During the inauguration ceremony, a film about the project and an exhibition explaining its application will be showcased. The project is one of the important programmes to be implemented by the ministry. It aims at building a digital geographic database of all educational institutions and linking it to the ministry's web portal.
I suspect many would be jealous of how much PR is being done before the project begins.
- Zawya
Belize
TBSL, Esri's distrbutor and Esri itself hosted the second Belize GIS Conference in January.
- 7 News Belize
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/23 at 05:28 AM |
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Oman
Oman has completed the first phase of development and management of pastoral resources using geographic information system (GIS) technology and remote-sensing, which has also helped to make digital maps of pastoral lands in Oman.
- Zawya
EU
The European Commission (EC) requested Bulgaria return 24.54 million euro of European Union agricultural funds. That's just a small part of the 530 million euro requested back from member states, including Denmark, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and the UK. Why? The repayment is due to "insufficient levels of on-the-spot checks, weaknesses in the Land Parcel Identification System-Geographical Information System (LPIS-GIS) and provision of inaccurate information and insufficient guidance to farmers with regard to area aid". Germany get some funds back!
- Sophia Echo
India
National Post Graduate College will introduce post-graduate diploma in geographical information system (GIS) and remote sensing, and retail management from the 2011-12 academic session.
- Times of India
The Indian government is reportedly studying the feasibility of giving value-added service (VAS) providers access to information related to the location of a cellphone as a part of the National Telecom Policy 2011.
- The Next Web
Canada
Jonathan Mark, Manager GIS and Topobase Support, Vancouver BC shares this news.
Wanted to let you know that the City of Vancouver has been named by BCBusiness Magazine as the Most Innovative Organization in British Columbia in 2010 for its Open Data Initiative. As this point in time, there are in excess of 125 datasets available for free download and more coming. Most of the datasets are spatially-based and are already available for viewing in VanMap, the City's online web mapping tool (http://vancouver.ca/vanmap). They are available in multiple formats and most are updated on a monthly basis. A recent addition is business licenses issued by the City.
A link to BCBusiness Magazine's announcement is available at http://www.bcbusinessonline.ca/2011/04/04/city-of-vancouver.
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/20 at 03:00 AM |
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