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Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Now the Washington State Department of Agriculture offers tools on its website that make crop location information more accessible to farmers, agencies, ag groups and the public.

Perry Beale, senior crop mapping specialist, is the main developer of the WSDA's website tool.

"You can use the map to get a visual picture and download the data behind the map such as the section level data, county data and statewide data," he said. "Having the information available can help the producer manage his workload and know surface and groundwater issues."

It uses ArcGIS Explorer and one map has this intro/disclaimer:

ArcGIS Explorer Online is a rich client for using, creating and sharing ArcGIS maps online. ArcGIS Explorer Online requires Microsoft Silverlight and includes:
 
Support for reading and writing ArcGIS maps that can be used with ArcGIS.com, ArcGIS for iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7 and ArcGIS Desktop.
Support for marking up your map with features and editing feature services.
Support for creating and executing pre-defined and parameterized queries.
The ability to include a presentation in your map and share it with others.
And much more...
NOTE:  This application will not work with Apple operating systems or iPhones. It requires Internet Explorer 6+ or Chrome 12+ or Firefox 3.6+ and requires installing the Microsoft Silverlight library on your computer. 
We at Ourcoumminities.org are dedicated to informing Massachusetts about what it means to invest in our communities and what could happen if we don't.
So, it offers  slick map of how much aid cities and towns are losing. And, local papers are writing about it. BUT, the map is not embeddable, so as much as Braintree Patch and others write about it, they can't embed it in their coverage. I encourage Ourcommunities.org to et on the embeddable band wagon!
 
 
Here's another important map story on migration (by KPCC) where the map is not embeddable!! 
 
- via KPCC
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/02 at 03:00 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share
Narrow your search further: ag, embed, migration, silverlight, washington

Thursday, February 09, 2012

Westport, CT has a new Esri-based map viewer. The city is offering several 90 and 150 minute classes on using it. Good thing  - since I oculd not get the help to work. The old intro page says you must use IE not AOL or another browser. Safari worked fine.

- CT

The Franklin County, AL Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Consortium officially lauched its “virtual Franklin County,” also known as its public facing GIS. It's built on ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 2.

- Franklin County Times

The city of Southfield [MI] recently launched Destination Southfield, a collection of Geographic Information System -based sites that provide up-to-date interactive maps and information about city services, parks and polling locations. The information can be found at http://maps.cityofsouthfield.com/destinationsouthfield.

With Destination Southfield, the city has become one of the first communities in the country to take advantage of Environmental Systems Research Institute's local government common information model. ArcGIS for Local Government includes a series of maps and apps that are designed to work together across various city departments.

Silverlight. Interesting "hide and seek" menus.

- Hometown Life

by Adena Schutzberg on 02/09 at 03:00 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share

Monday, December 12, 2011

Kearney Nebraska uses an assett management system from Beehive to serve its online maps (via Silveilght) in a product called Homebase. Now the city has added Smart Maps, thematic maps of garbage collection, capital improvements, traffic counts and the like. The page listing the maps is on a Google Sites page but the maps start ArcGIS Explorer (Silverlight).  I needed a newer version of Silverlight for the latter maps; the former ones worked fine with an old version.

- Kearney Hub

Did you ever wonder what happened to the folks from Thomas Brothers when that company was acquired by Rand McNally? Well in addition to helping out with mapping in Haiti Bernard Catalinotto and Glen Jansma started mymapbook website which covers several communities in nothern California. Is this the future of community mapping.

- Larkspur Cortre Madera Patch

The Florence County [SC] Library System recently received a grant of more than $37,000 from the Library Services and Technology Act for a Virtual Museum Project.

The first-of-its-kind project will see collaboration between the Florence Museum, Florence County Library System and Florence County Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to expand services provided for learning, access to information and educational resources in any one of multiple formats.

The Virtual Museum Project’s goal is to catalog the entire collection of the museum and add it to the library’s online digital catalog, as well as create a virtual tour.

- SC Now

by Adena Schutzberg on 12/12 at 05:46 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

York County, PA feels the locations of 200 cell towers provided by wireless companies are not accurate. So it's ground truthing them for more access E911 locations. The funding is from the wirelss fund and runs about $84,000.

- GovTech

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz introduced an updated version of the county's "My Neighborhood" application Friday, an easily accessible web-based map tool that allows citizens and county employees to access zoning information, property maps and dozens of other features in one online location.

It's an ArcGIS Server SliverLight app which I'm confident my parents would fine challenging to use.

Baltimore Sun

Raleigh County, WV's GIS is getting more funding so it can grow beyond what was built with state homeland security money.

Toward that goal, Metro Geographic Information System (GIS) landed a $13,281 outlay Tuesday from the Raleigh County Commission, matching a like amount to be put up by the city of Beckley, as the program inches deeper into the 21st century.

The money will push the group to move from individual licenses to an Esri enterprise license.

ESRI, the California-based mapping firm, uses an approach that is nearly standard across the nation, and a key attraction is that it offers the freedom to proceed with unlimited licensing of participants, Kelly said.

- Register-Herald

by Adena Schutzberg on 07/27 at 03:39 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share

Friday, June 24, 2011

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is kicking off a statewide bicycling initiative to encourage physical fitness and bicycle-based tourism. ...

[He and a group of officials] introduced an interactive map of bike trails and routes across the state to help people plan their cycling trips.

- WaPo

Batavia, IL decided to move a school bus stop over concerns a registered sex offender lived nearby. The GIS determined he lived outside the 500 foot exclusion zone defined by law.

- Beacon News

The Delta County GIS Department (Colorado) is upgrading to Silverlight for its online offering. It's accessible here.

We've got much more of the map on screen and the queries are easier and faster to access. In most instances, links are provided to further information such as property records or recorded plats.

The new map is built on "SilverLight" an API (Application Programming Interface) by MicroSoft. It is very stable, scalable and programmable, and easier to use than previous online interactive maps. All of the data (parcels, roads, districts, etc.) is public information and available in different forms from various departments in the Delta County Courthouse. We do not give away or sell our map data on a county-wide basis to anyone.

- Delta County Independent

by Adena Schutzberg on 06/24 at 03:00 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share

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