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“Why does Interstate 95 go in a straight line from Florida to Canton [MA], and then hooks around, and resumes a straight line from Peabody [MA] to Canada. And that’s Interstate 95.”
The answer is Mayor Kevin White of Boston, who died earlier this week. Rep. Barney Frank, asked the question above in his eulogy, covered by WBUR.
“Cities that have a good GIS program have really good city programs. Cities that have it are light-years ahead.”
- Northport, Alabama City Councilman Jay Logan, who works for the city of Tuscaloosa supporting the city's exploration of a $500,000 GIS quoted in the Tuscalusa News.
"It's essentially a computer mapping program. It takes features in the real world and you can put them into a computer mapping program and put them into something that you can visualize a lot easier than walking around town."
- Fredonia resident and student Jordan Abbott describing GIS and how it might be used in Dunkirk, NY as quote in the Observer. He gave a presentation to the Citizens' Advisory Committee (CAC) at its January meeting.
Who is thinking spatially? Who has put government expenditures on a geographical information system (GIS) platform? In Canada, you can ask for anything and they’ll pull up a GIS map that will tell you, for instance, where the police stations are. We don’t have anything of the sort.
“Our goal is become an international 311 system. We have a ways to go to that end, but on a national level, we get closer and closer with the signing of new cities every day.”
- Ben Berkowitz, co-founder of SeeClickFix.com describing what's ahead for the company, quoted in GovTech.
