If you are working toward transparency on your local municipality website, the Illinois Policy Institute offers 10 guidelines to help cover the bases. Clearly these are needed because the top players that were audited in the state got only about 50 out of 100 points!
- Patch.com (Downer’s Grove, Illinois)
To help navigate this terrain, staff members in the city’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) developed NYCityMap, a Web-based interactive mapping application that offers a one-stop information shop for those on the prowl. And the cost to utilize this tool? Nada, zip, zilch — it’s free.
It uses GeoServer and Dojo.
- DigitalCommunities
John Morgan III, a professor in the Towson (Maryland) department of geography and environmental planning, has introduced a new map to provide information on the cause of a natural disaster, terrorist attack or other emergencies. Maryland safeMAP, a graphical interface map will provide the public with relevant geographical information for use in the case of an emergency. Next up? Expanding it beyond Maryland.
- The Tower Light
by Adena Schutzberg on 11/29 at 07:26 AM |
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The press release says:
OpenLR has been designed for traffic information systems and dynamic route
guidance, and is available as an open-source technology a
http://www.tomtom.com/page/openLR. It can easily be adapted to the requirements
of system integrators, and the technical community can contribute with their
ideas to improve it.
Location data can range from static road sign information to highly dynamic
traffic and weather situation information as well as safety-critical information
- anything that needs to be accurately linked to a specific piece of or position
on the road network. The OpenLR technology allows location content providers to
reference any location on any navigable map, completely royalty-free.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 09/08 at 06:17 AM |
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deCarta announced its connected navigation platform last week. At the same time the expectations for portable navigation devices is looking dim as for-fee smartphone solutions for navigation appear to grow. What is the future for these devices and what about the connected car of the future? Our editors look at what the experts say and share their own predictions.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 10/28 at 06:00 AM |
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It was big week for news from a variety of sectors. Our editors take a look at Garmin’s announcement of its nav-phone, the Nuvifone, Microsoft’s offer to buy Yahoo! and the Ordnance Survey’s opening of its API for developers, OpenSpace.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 02/05 at 01:00 AM |
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In our weekly podcast covering the week’s news Adena Schutzberg and Nora Parker look at news about a small bank using GIS, new offerings from EPA and Acxiom, and explore updates from the National Weather Service in how it shares weather alerts, ligitation related to the Brooks Act and new sponsors for OSGEO. The podcast is 10 minutes (< 4 Mb) and was recorded January 22, 2007.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 01/23 at 01:00 AM |
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