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Nokia Drive, now at version 2.0 and now supports offline directions. You can save data directly to the device and navigate without a connection. Data includes posted speed limits and an option to warn you if you are exceeding them.
To keep traffic from residential areas and to prevent drivers from getting lost, Garmin and Google have relocated it to route drivers to viewing areas.
Illinois Gov Pat Quinn signed legislation to enhance truck safety when using GPS. It makes truck routes more accessible by requiring local jurisdictions to provide truck route data to the Dept of Transportation, which then will post that information online. It also includes a provision to better educate drivers about the diffrences between truck and consumer GPS devices.
House Bill 1377 goes into effect January 1, 2012. John McAvoy, director of engineering for Rand McNally, was one of nine members of the task force appointed to make recommendations to the Illinois State Assembly.
- Bulk Transporter (no doubt the first time I cited that website!)
The request is pretty vague since TfL can't disclose much detail due to its xx nature. The time frame is clear: the online app much be delivered in five months. The kick off meeting is at the end of September and the solution needs to be functional by February.
Cook said that same GIS technology used to determine the new trash collection routes has also revealed that the number of customers receiving weekly garbage pickup, recycling and waste collection has grown by nearly a third during the last decade. Despite that growth, the city’s Environmental Services Department hasn’t increased its workforce since 2001, according to Cook. Environmental Services currently has a staff of 31 employees.
The city is rejigging its routes to " to maximize efficiency and minimize the utilization of fuel on each day’s route” and means more than half of residents will have trash pickup on a new day starting in August. I suspect the use of GIS is helping keep the staff numbers the same as residents served rises.
- WRBL
Belmont, MA is asking the public to report coyote sightings.
The tool, developed by a small Arlington-based company, PeopleGIS Inc., has registered nearly 30 coyote sightings since it was put into use in May.
After two years of discussion and $25,000 in federal grants, the Fort Worth City Council is expected to approve a plan for the city to put together its own comprehensive gas pipeline maps.
....Until now, the city has relied on the Texas Railroad Commission for maps that may or may not have the most up-to-date information.
Safety issues are by law still under the Railroad Commission, but the city hopes its new maps (compiled by a local engineering firm) will be more up-to-date. They will be publicly available - which I find interesting after the stir about such things after 9/11.
- WFAA
