Lawrie Jordan, director of imagery at Esri, and special assistant to Jack Dangermond, gave the keynote address at the SPAR International conference on Monday in Houston.
Jordon touched on more than a few GIS trends he is seeing, including the “convergence” of GIS and 3D imaging technology, an uptick in cloud computing, and a “stunning” increase in the use of mobile technology.
- Spar Point Group
Esri data is behind Smithsonian Magazine's list of the top 20 small towns in the United States.
To help create our list, we asked the geographic information systems company Esri tosearch its data bases for high concentrations of museums, historic sites, botanic gardens, resident orchestras, art galleries and other cultural assets common to big cities. But we focused on towns with populations less than 25,000, so travelers could experience what might be called enlightened good times in an unhurried, charming setting. We also tried to select towns ranging across the lower 48.
Esri's ArcGIS Online is behind the maps in
America Revealed, a new PBS series. I watched a bit of one episode - and it moved waaay too slowly for me to be engaged.
- via @JosephKerski who wrote on Twitter
"America Revealed" PBS documentary that beginning 11 April; includes graphics using ArcGIS Online!
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/18 at 03:00 AM |
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Harrisburg University student Steve Cline is using a balloon to capture imagery of a local island. The big issue in using these kits: helium shortage. Maybe it's time for kites!
- Penn Live
A new Kindle book (the authors refer to it as a manual) titled Gaining Competency With GIS: How-to Manual for ArcGIS Desktop Version 10 [Kindle Edition] offers help in gaining competency with ArcGIS. It references the ArcGIS 10 docs and I gather provides step by step instructions for tools and extensions. It claims to be based on the Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM) but refers to the that document as "Geotechnical Competency Model" throughout. I wonder if that editing error is in part related to an English class cited in the acknowledgements.
via URISA Digest
Students with the Paragould High School EAST Lab Program [AR] are using their computer knowledge to help Paragould Police monitor sex offenders living in the city limits.
"They are updating our sex offender zoning map," said Captain Greg Trout with PPD.
- KAIT
The University of Redlands has received a $75,000 grant from the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to develop a Spatial Decision Support (SDS) system that calculates and maps the potential impacts of energy projects on wildlife.
- press release
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Today, Esri launched ArcGIS for National Government at their Federal GIS conference. What is it and is it anything new for ArcGIS users?
ArcGIS for National Government, as best I can discern from the presentations, is composed of data services, combined with pre-assembled workflow templates that also includes pre-configured model builder workflows that result in a specific "information product." If you happen to be working in an intelligence agency, there are specific templates/workflows called "ArcGIS for Intelligence."
For example, the ArcGIS for Intelligence solution contains specific content and other information products such as basemaps that may convey "live" current events happening in the world and provides the user the ability to drill down to information about actual incidents. The basemaps may include ready to use layers specific to that application or cartographic elements, such as a light gray, low contract basemap so point and polygon data will not be overwhelmed with colors and attribution of a typical base map.
Another aspect of the solution provides for the creation of an user-defined image or data catalog with a rating scale so users can see how helpful a data layer or image has been to others. Any value-added work created within a project can be published to the catalog and registered as a service that others can use as well.
Additionally, users can access ready to use products including analytical templates to answer specific questions. If you were working as a border patrol agent, these templates would include applications for:
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Border patrol mobile applications
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The template, then, includes standard map layers (land cover, water, etc.) but also known trails that illegal aliens will use and the locations of border arrests plus polygons for border patrol administration areas.
Finally, the solution also includes a pre-configured model builder template for these applications. The user then gathers data by browsing ArcGIS Online to look for layers that may be more specific to his/her own project area. Once the analysis has been completed, the entire analysis can be sent out via a layer package that other users can pull into their ArcGIS system.
Is any of this new? What's new is that these kinds of solutions are packaged. While the underlying technology is not new, Esri is trying to simplify the workflow, which would be particularly useful to neophyte GIS users. And with an expected expansion of knowledge workers that want to avail themselves of geospatial technology but are not yet expert with ArcGIS, this certainly gives them a push in the right direction. In a way, it reminds me of the large, post-sized workflow models that Esri used to publish for certain vertical industries. This is the evolution of those posters for the era of "cloud."
by Joe Francica on 02/23 at 07:31 AM |
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[Chicago Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Tom] Byrne said the blitzing now permits crews to trim 20 trees a day instead of 14.
The maps are based both on observation by city employees and by callers to the city’s 311 non-emergency line. Byrne said that in less than four months, use of the program has reduced the number of backlogged tree-trimming requests from 30,000 to 23,000, with a blitz taking place in each of the city’s 50 wards roughly twice a month.
...Byrne said it saves on manpower, fuel and mechanical wear and addresses complaints more quickly.
The app was first used to map crime, now tree trimming requests. Next up: graffitti.
- CBS Chicago
2011 NAIP 1 meter, 4 band aerial photography is now available in Image Server (image.agrc.utah.gov). This imagery was acquired statewide in the summer of 2011 as a part of the National Agriculture Imagery Program and is also available for FTP download as well.
- Utah GIS Portal
The county will now offer its global information mapping services at no cost to area school corporations.
Allen County commissioners approved a new membership agreement with Fort Wayne Community Schools today that will eliminate the fees the county normally charges for sharing mapping information, said Dave Estes, who manages the county’s GIS office.
The legislation that requires those fees has retricted the county from contributing to IndianaMap, the state's map.
- Journal Gazette (I contacted the paper about the expansion of "GIS" above)
"Investigators consider making map of arson fires" is the headline in the local paper in Kamploops, BC. They have a list of the suspicious fires. I wonder what they are waiting for?
- Kamloops Daily News
Esri is among those noted in new project cited in a press release from the White House discussing its Global Development Policy.
• A new “app store” for development to spur humanitarian apps and software: USAID has joined forces with today’s leading technology companies to build an “app store” for development-oriented software. The platform will enable public and private technology interventions to be scaled and replicated across multiple countries, programs, and implementers while creating a marketplace of ideas and applications. This partnership will take advantage of the knowledge of “cloud computing experts” from major technology companies such as HP, Cisco, Accenture, and ESRI to increase the productivity and efficiency of USAID’s development assistance.
- fact sheet via @michael_d_gould
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Among the geo tools you can learn about (for use in reserach/classes in any discipline) at Duke:
GeoCommons
Google Earth Pro
ArcGIS
and Tableau Public but that's not noted as a GIS tool.
- Duke GIS and Data Blog
Dr. Seidu Mohammed, Director General, National Space Research and Development Agency [Nigeria] said deployment of satellite technology remained Nigeria's antidote to tackle the various environmental challenges facing the country.
Nigerian scientists are working with the University of Missouri to use imagery to do environmental assessment of oil spill damages in the Niger Delta as well as an assessment of the Lake Chad.
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A review of educational standards in the UK have led to the recommnedation, among others,. that geography be studied between ages 14-16.
It recommended that all pupils in England should study geography, history and a foreign language between the ages of 14 and 16, in some form, even if their courses did not lead to full GCSEs.
New standards are expected in 2014.
- Telegraph
The Casper Mountain Science School, Wyoming (CMSS) teaches K-12 students at Eadsville, a mining camp on Casper Moutain. The log schoolhouse and the town around the camp shut down a century ago and current students explore the history and geography of the area. And, local college students help enhance the K-12 program.
A group from Casper College’s advanced GIS (geographic information system) class created a layer of digital, interactive maps complete with pictures and historical information about Eadsville for those students.
- Casper Journal
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