Austin Beutner is running for Mayor of Los Angeles Mayor. He's been critical of the Fire Dept's response rates and now offers the LAFD Response Times Map (Google Map Mashup). You can read his plan to fix the issue at the Huffington Post.
The Bermuda Mapping Project commissioned by Ministry of Environment, Planning and Infrastructure Strategy means an update to island imagery that dates back to 2003. Some 1,200 new addresses have popped up since then. Project costs will run about $260,000. The public will be able to purchase the new data.
The Michigan Department of Transportation has printed its annual map of road and bridge projects across the state. More up to date info is available online. I wonder how much longer they'll do a large run of these maps?
Cheyenne County’s Board of Commissioners [NE] will pursue a grant that will fund a new on-line venture into the county’s General Information System (GIS).
Following a Power-Point presentation from GIS Workshop Sales Manager Brenda Wilson, the board chose Monday to use the Lincoln-based company to prepare and submit a state grant that will seek up to $25,000 per project.
Do I understand that the county is paying the GIS consultant to write the grant proposal? I wonder how much is set aside for that work? I suspect the grant could not be used to pay for prepping the grant?
The Center for American Progress offers a map that shows the state-by-state impact of a potental 10 percent reduction in spending for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, once knowns as "food stamps." Not only will it mean fewer meals, but also nearly 100,000 job losses, per the analysis.
SeeClickFix and a local Patch news website, Kirkwood, are prompting change at Missouri DOT.
We took Meg’s comment to the Missouri Department of Transportation (MODOT), who says they will give the light a second look. Over the next week, MODOT will study the traffic flow at Kirkwood and Big Bend roads and decide how to adjust the light to improve morning congestion.
The FCC has released data for "potentially eligible areas for the Mobility Fund Phase I of the Connect America Fund" in three ways for better use: shapefiles, WMS and MapBox tiles. It's pretty impressive how fast MapBox tiles have become a valuable, de joure standard for data.
The Associated Press and Google are rewriting the book this year on how to provide fast, accurate election results, and the theme of the latest chapter is cooperation.
Tuesday night, news outlets that pay AP for election results for particular states will be able to embed Google Maps of the results on their sites.
Time Magazine is offering some special content to Foursquare users who check in at the Republican National Convention in Tampa in August or the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.
Users who unlock the Time-Foursquare badge get “access to a curated list of must-attend venues and events,” plus convention tips from Time reporters—like historical facts from past conventions and 2012 campaign tips about the nominees and delegates.
Two fascinating and useful studies of California’s political landscape have been published in recent days, one mapping the geographic variations of attitudes and the other creating and applying a scientific measure of communities’ ideologies.
“California’s Political Geography” by Eric McGhee and Daniel Krimm of the Public Policy Institute of California, matches California counties by residents’ party identification, 2008 presidential vote and by responses to two social and two fiscal survey questions with what McGhee calls “clear liberal or conservative dimensions.” ...
“The California Political Precinct Index” by David Latterman at the University of San Francisco, is a powerful tool for assessing counties and electoral districts according to actual precinct votes on nine ballot measures that are “easily interpretable” as liberal or conservative.
Among the new data accessible through OpenDataPhilly: bike racks, census data, buildings on the Registry of Historic Places, impervious surfaces, and schools.
The Honourable Tony Clement, President of the Treasury Board and Minister responsible for FedNor [regional development org in Ontario, Canada], chaired today the first meeting of an advisory panel of leading experts to provide the Government with advice and guidance on its Open Government activities.
Among the members: Alex Miller, President and Founder, ESRI Canada, Alex Howard of O'Reilly, and Vivek Kundra of Salesforce.com.'
