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?
- Sun Telegraph
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.
- Center for American Progress
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.
- Kirkwood Patch
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A new addition to ChicagoShovels.org, Adopt-a-Sidewalk will allow residents to request help in shoveling via a map.
- NWI Times
Forget OSM and Google Maps, Hillsborough, NJ is using GreenMap.org for its community mapping efforts.
- Hillsborough Patch
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and the British Astronomical Association’s Campaign for Dark Skies are calling for ‘citizen scientists’ to take part in Star Count Week.
From January 20-27 stargazers will be asked to count the number of stars they can see within the constellation of Orion with the naked eye.
This effort is in Cheshire and yes, the results will be posted on a map. Data is gathered via Survey Monkey.
- Ellesmere Port Pioneer
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The State of Vermont, hard hit by flooding after hurrcane Irene, has a map (CrowdMap again) where locals can post damage and "needed" information. It's unclear who posted the map or who is monitoring it. That's becoming all to common in such efforts.
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Wheelmap is an attempt to address the accessibility problem. An app designed by Raul Krauthausen, who is himself a wheelchair user, the app uses an open source database to construct a map showing which stores, theaters and tourist attractions are wheelchair accessible. The app (for iPhones) is free and users contribute to the database, either via the app or the web site.
RIght now most data is in Germany and there's a new version for Japan. A worldwide one would be so awesome!
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At the beginning of 2011, the [Los Angeles Unified School District] LAUSD launched a pilot crowdsourcing program that has resulted in 1,000 repair requests in the first eight months of the year. That's a drop in the bucket compared with the nearly 250,000 requests the district gets every year. However, Kurt Daradics, cofounder and director of business development for CitySourced in Los Angeles, which markets the crowdsourcing app, said that, once fully implemented, it could cut the district's maintenance request-processing expenses by 80 percent.
Esri is moving from teaching GIS in schools to using GIS in schools. I'm thinking there's more money in the latter than the former.
- THE Journal
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Both the UK's Guardian and the U.S.'s New York Times are starting crowdsourced efforts to capture information on schools. The former will try to map school data while the latter is more about collecting and organizing data about different regions of New York City.
- Editor's Web Blog
Two San Francisco projects are throwing public energy at making the libraries stock of Sanborn and old photos more usable. Maptcha asks the pulic to help geocode Sanborn maps while Old SF has users geotag the photos.
- Bay Citizen
The City of New York on Sunday launched a website, powered by Google Maps, for Greater New York area residents to map tales of Hurricane Irene-related destruction.
I see Ushahidi, actually CrowdMap, in use!
- PC Mag
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The new website featured at the Museum of Modern Art installation but available to all on the Web puts homegrown videos on a map of the city. The idea of MyBlockNYC is to show the "real" NYC and what happens on each block. You can filter videos for those about sports or food and of course you are encouraged to post your own videos.
- Austin YNN (includes video that's not embeddable)
Waze, one of our favorite free GPS apps for Android and iOS, gets a version 2.4 update today that adds text-to-speech guidance, a commuting widget for the Android app, and a host of smaller improvements.
In other news, the crowdsourced mapping and traffic app has 5 million users.
- C|net
My City Lives is a map-based Web service that allows users to watch videos about various locations in their city. Imagine a mash-up of YouTube and Google Inc.'s Street View service, where users can search for a coffee shop in their neighbourhood, then watch a video about that establishment. "Each video that somebody uploads about a coffee shop is a commercial about that coffee shop," Mr. Dhalla explained.
It's based in Toronto and for now 90% of videos are crowdsourced. The company makes money from videos it helps produce.
- Financial Post
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