In Suffolk County, NY, library budget allocations are tied to library card registrations, so it is important that residents (a) register and (b) do it in the right library. However, in Suffolk County, point "b" is not always so straightforward, because a library's service area is defined by school districts, township boundaries, and other confusing lines.
So, a federal libaray grant was used to develop a site to help people find their library and apply for a card. I'm so glad my city has a single library system (with three branches).
- Libaray Journal
Plows will have TomTom GPS devices, just like those sold in stores, programmed with each of the 217 snow plow routes, meaning all drivers will have to do is punch in the specific route number and just follow the voice commands.
Keith Compton, the head of the county's [Montgomery County, MD] snow removal team, says the 300 or so TomToms were far less expensive than the automated vehicle locator system they contemplated buying: "These things are about $250 a piece. A full-blown AVL system is about $800,000."
- WAMU
The Data.Illinois.gov site will soon post more than 4,000 additional sets of data. Currently there are just several hundred sets.
The Illinois governor's office says it recently received federal government approval to post the new data that offers information related to Illinois compiled by several U.S. agencies.
Among the data are those from Census and EPA.
- WBEZ via @storm7
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Oman has completed the first phase of development and management of pastoral resources using geographic information system (GIS) technology and remote-sensing, which has also helped to make digital maps of pastoral lands in Oman.
- Zawya
EU
The European Commission (EC) requested Bulgaria return 24.54 million euro of European Union agricultural funds. That's just a small part of the 530 million euro requested back from member states, including Denmark, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and the UK. Why? The repayment is due to "insufficient levels of on-the-spot checks, weaknesses in the Land Parcel Identification System-Geographical Information System (LPIS-GIS) and provision of inaccurate information and insufficient guidance to farmers with regard to area aid". Germany get some funds back!
- Sophia Echo
India
National Post Graduate College will introduce post-graduate diploma in geographical information system (GIS) and remote sensing, and retail management from the 2011-12 academic session.
- Times of India
The Indian government is reportedly studying the feasibility of giving value-added service (VAS) providers access to information related to the location of a cellphone as a part of the National Telecom Policy 2011.
- The Next Web
Canada
Jonathan Mark, Manager GIS and Topobase Support, Vancouver BC shares this news.
Wanted to let you know that the City of Vancouver has been named by BCBusiness Magazine as the Most Innovative Organization in British Columbia in 2010 for its Open Data Initiative. As this point in time, there are in excess of 125 datasets available for free download and more coming. Most of the datasets are spatially-based and are already available for viewing in VanMap, the City's online web mapping tool (http://vancouver.ca/vanmap). They are available in multiple formats and most are updated on a monthly basis. A recent addition is business licenses issued by the City.
A link to BCBusiness Magazine's announcement is available at http://www.bcbusinessonline.ca/2011/04/04/city-of-vancouver.
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