Phillip K. Mol of G-1 Aerial Surveys has offered to replace a 1978 aerial mosaic that hangs in the Bureau County, IL Court House. He does such work for about $1000 but will give the county a new one for free. No, there will be no new pics - he'll assemble it from IDNR and USGS orthoquads that date to 2005. But, he does want his company to get credit on the image.
- News Tribune
The City of Indio [CA] has been approved to receive grant funding in the amount of $47,000 from the California Office of Traffic Safety to implement an automated traffic collision and tracking program with Geographic Information System (GIS) capabilities. "This is a significant upgrade and modernization of how we'll be able to prevent collisions and make Indio's roads safer. This program will greatly assist the city in proactively reducing the number of reported traffic collisions city wide, said Indio's Mayor Glenn Miller.
- My Desert
As many as 56 medical marijuana facilities in Colorado are located within 1,000 feet of a school, according to an I-News analysis of school addresses and licenses issued to more than 700 medical marijuana facilities statewide.
Federal and state laws require a 1000 foot buffer. So, the feds are cracking down as they recently did in California. GIS was part of the analysis.
- Inewsnetwork.org
Forget OSM and Google Maps, Hillsborough, NJ is using GreenMap.org for its community mapping efforts.
- Hillsborough Patch
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/16 at 05:15 AM |
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While Apple did re-up with Google for mapping (APB coverage), a close look at the disclaimers (full text) for the new operating system reveals a long list of well-known, more obscure and even some crowdsourcing mapping players per MacRumors:
• CoreLogic offers Parcel data which marks boundaries for of properties to provide positional accuracy in location-based solutions.
• Getchee provides location and market data on China, India and Southeast Asia.
• Increment P Corp provides location and traffic data for Japan.
• Localeze provides local business listings.
• MapData Sciences Pty Ltd. Inc provides mapping data for Australia and New Zealand.
• DMTI provides postal code data for Canada.
• TomTom offers global TeleAtlas mapping data which is also licensed by Google for their map solution.
• Urban Mapping provides in-depth neighborhood data such as crime, demographics, school performance, economic indicators and more.
• Waze offers real-time maps and traffic information based on crowd sourced data.
The most interesting one on the list is Waze, which is cited: "Map data © 2011 Waze." Note, it's not traffic data, but map data. One of waze's goals is to build its own map the US (as it did in Israel). So, it' could be Apple is using part of the Waze's basemap and/or tapping it for traffic data, too. That'd be a huge bump for the company and may also be the "user generated traffic" app Apple hinted at after the "storing your data" fiasco.
- MacRumors
by Adena Schutzberg on 06/23 at 03:52 AM |
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