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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I fear Esri’s “fun for Thanksgiving” map of where turkeys are safest, in the local paper, will get a mixed review in Redlands this morning. The map was produced as a PR effort. The version online in the Press Enterprise, which shows just California, appears to be scanned from the print version of the paper. I guess the turkeys get the last laugh - if turkeys do laugh.
Happy Thanksgiving!
- Press Enterprise
by Adena Schutzberg on 11/24 at 06:13 AM |
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Deb Hooker who works for the Poudre School District in Colorado writes in the Coloradoan about the new computer curriculum the be launched next year.
Beginning with the 2009-10 school year, most sixth-graders will take a new nine-week Web 2.0 technology course that includes units on researching on the Web; Internet safety (appropriate use and ethics); data analysis; introduction to programming; Web site design; geographic information systems, or GIS; and Google Docs (collaborative Web-based office tools).
Seventh-graders may also choose to take an additional 18-week computer gaming and digital technology class that expands on the sixth-grade class, including units such as digital video production and video game programming.
The new courses involve using free, open-sourced software available on the Internet. Recently, representatives from Google and the Environmental Systems Research Institute, or ESRI, trained PSD middle school teachers and school technology coordinators on how to use tools such as Google Docs and GIS software.
I think may be some confusion about what “free, open-sourced software” is. Still, this sounds like a great start to preparing students for the Web 2.0 world.
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/21 at 07:50 AM |
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CBR (Computer Business Review) offers a “business-y” interview. I’m not sure why the author describes it as rare; Dangermond has always been generous with his time for journalists. There are some statements worthy of note (below), but the responses tend to confirm what those who’ve been working with ESRI already know (unlikely to buy or become a public company, is not consumer focused, but rather professionally focused, focused on Windows).
The interesting statements:
“Microsoft, with the acquisition of Navteq, and Nokia will play into that space [mapping technologies] as well as larger players.”
[That’s an error; Nokia acquired NAVTEQ.]
“ESRI is philosophically very supportive of the open source movement and we have engineered our tools so they live inside an open source sandwich.”
[I’m not sure what an open source sandwich is, but certainly ESRI and many other proprietary solutions work with open source. ESRI and others build their solutions on some open source code, too.]
“I don’t think we do [face much competition from open source]. It’s a political movement as well as a technical effort. People who buy our products don’t typically want to buy open source because they want to acquire total integrated support for their mission critical applications.”
[Open source software has no license or royalty fee.]
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/15 at 07:29 AM |
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Henry County in Georgia is moving to an electronic plan submission plan, though paper is to be submitted too. Here’s how the local paper describes what’s to happen.
Beginning Sept. 1, Henry county will only accept plans that are electronically formatted. Developers, surveyors, engineers and others will have to submit their plans in CAD, AUTO CAD, MicroStation or ESRI ARC MAP format.
I’m confident that the middle two options are DWG and DGN, respectively, but I’m unclear on the first and last options.
- Henry Daily Herald
by Adena Schutzberg on 07/03 at 06:56 AM |
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