Beyond Earthquakes: Leveraging GIS and Volunteered Geographic Information | Geographic Information Technology. GIS Technology Helps Health Care Industry Save Lives | Collection ... | Geographic Information Technology. Cost Recovery in Public Sector GIS Programs. Bluesky Launches Online LiDAR Map of Britain | Geographic Information Technology. Geospatial Technologies and Sustainable Energy Policy | Geographic Information Technology. Culture and Commerce of Chennai City – A Spatial Analysis of the Relationship between Temples and Retail Activity | Geographic Information Technology. Politicians use GIS technology to their advantage | Geographic Information Technology. Social Media and the Emergence of Open-Source Geospatial Intelligence | Geographic Information Technology. Learn How Open Source Software Benefits a Successful GIS Business | Geographic Information Technology. URISA's GISCorps Continues to Impact the World. 2010-2011 Review of Publicly Traded Location Technology Stocks.
Summary: Editor in Chief Joe Francica provides an encapsulated review of publicly traded geospatial information and location technology companies. The global economic turmoil has had a dramatic impact on this technology sector, with few companies delivering positive gains for shareholders. The roller-coaster ride of the last two years is unlikely to change but opportunities exist for investors who believe that location-based information is still an essential driver of business.
Ed. note: This is a two-year review of publicly traded stocks that impact the geospatial technology sector. This is a long-range view of what’s been going on in the business of location. Disclosure: I hold positions in ORCL, IMP and NOK and recently disposed of positions in GRMN and TSYS. “Do you want to go faster? When I was a teenager, I used to go on a whirling, spinning, roller-coaster-type ride called “The Himalaya” located at one of the piers at the Jersey Shore (yes, THAT Jersey Shore). Two-year Returns. Google Earth 6.2: It’s a beautiful world | Geographic Information Technology. Geographic Information System and Tools of Spatial Analysis in a Pneumococcal Vaccine Trial. BMC Research Notes, Vol. 5, January 2012 Antti Tanskanen, Leilani T Nillos, Antti Lehtinen, Hanna Nohynek, Diozele Hazel M Sanvictores, Eric A F Simoes, Veronica L Tallo, Marilla G Lucero, and Arivac Consortium “Background: The goal of this Geographic Information System (GIS) study was to obtain accurate information on the locations of study subjects, road network and services for research purposes so that the clinical outcomes of interest (e.g., vaccine efficacy, burden of disease, nasopharyngeal colonization and its reduction) could be linked and analyzed at a distance from health centers, hospitals, doctors and other important services.
The information on locations can be used to investigate more accurate crowdedness, herd immunity and/or transmission patterns. “Method: A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial of an 11-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (11PCV) was conducted in Bohol Province in central Philippines, from July 2000 to December 2004. Read the paper [PDF] How fragile are the networks that we depend upon for today's GIS ... | Geographic Information Technology. GIS and its Conceptual Framework « Computers, Society, and Nature | Geographic Information Technology. What Makes New York's Shawangunk Mountains One of the "Last Great Places"? (ArcNews Online) | Geographic Information Technology.
ArcGIS Online: What's New? This regular column contains information about the latest updates to ArcGIS Online including new content contributed by Esri and the user community. The Light Gray Canvas Map is a perfect alternative to traditional basemaps, which can have an abundance of detail that obscures data overlays. Any existing map backdrop can be changed to the Light Gray Canvas Map for a cleaner, less cluttered presentation of operational or custom data. New and Updated Basemaps The latest addition to the ArcGIS Online basemap collection is the Light Gray Canvas Map, available at arcgis.com and ArcGIS Explorer Online. The latest contributions to the World Topographic Map include new content for Great Britain, Ghana, Spain, and the Netherlands, as well as several areas in Canada—Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and Gatineau, Quebec—and the United States.
Measure distance or areas or get coordinates with one click. Updated Task Services The ArcGIS Online World Geocoding Service address locators now use data from NAVTEQ. Tribes Effectively Barred From Making High-Tech Maps. April 26, 2007 Part of the Digital Places Special News Series More Digital Places Stories>> Tribes in Southeast Asia are being kept from using the latest high-tech gadgets to help them win land rights. That's the outcry from activist groups that have been helping indigenous communities mix computers and handheld navigation devices with paints, yarn, and cardboard to make simple but accurate three-dimensional terrain models.
Several tribes have already used such models, based on data from geographic information systems (GIS), to defend their territories from developers making claims via modern legal systems. But in Malaysia and the Philippines, the practice—dubbed participatory GIS—has sparked a legal backlash, activists say. For example, Philippine lawmakers have changed an existing law so that only officially recognized engineers "could do anything related to measuring space," said Dave De Vera, director of the Philippine Association for Intercultural Development.
Moving Mountains. New, Insightful Ways to Describe the World | Geographic Information Technology. 7 News Belize. "Key to strategic business decisions", that's how Total Business Solutions, the driving force behind the introduction of GIS into Belize is describing the technology that some experts say is fundamental to the narrowing of the gap between first and third world countries. In Belize, a lack of up to date and relevant data has been highlighted as a major obstacle to sustainable development. That's why TBSL has partnered with Esri, the World's leader in GIS software and data to bring awareness to as many Belizean professionals, private and public organizations of the value of the technology. Today at the Belize Biltmore Hotel, the 2nd Annual Belize GIS Conference got underway, and Managing Director of TBSL, Loretta Palacio, told 7 News [that] changing the mindset of the country's key players remains the greatest challenge yet.
Loretta Palacio - Managing Director, TBSL Simon Thompson - Director Commercial Solutions, ESRI Jim McFadzean"Are you still in the educational process? " GIS Industry Trends and Outlook. GIS industry trends gain be gleaned by surveys and other reports produced by market research companies. While most of these reports can only be fully read after purchase, the executive summaries allow for an overview on the state of the GIS industry. The GIS Industry according to Daratech, a GIS research firm, grew worldwide 10.3% in 2010 to US$4.4 billion with a forecast of an additional 8.3% growth to almost US$5 billion in 2011. According to a new report on the GIS market (Geographic Information Systems (GIS): A Global Outlook released January 2012) from Global Industry Analysts, Inc (GIA), the GIS industry is expected to growth to a worldwide to US$10.6 Billion by 2015.
Despite the predicted gains, growth in the GIS industry hasn’t been a steady increase as noted by the GIA report: The healthy growth posted by GIS industry was however interrupted by the global economic crisis during 2009-2010. GIS Employment Outlook GIS is still continuing to emerge and expand into other markets. Danish Energy Company Focuses on Smart Grid via Geographic Information Systems | Geographic Information Technology. Mapping Center : Combining colored and grayshade rasters with high fidelity. Esri Partnership to Improve US Fuel Efficiency Standards (ArcNews Online) | Geographic Information Technology.
Geographic Information Systems Help Scholars See History. Jason P. Smith for The New York Times The geographer Anne Kelly Knowles has used mapmaking software to re-examine the Gettysburg battlefield. The Past in Three Dimensions Articles in this series are examining how digital tools are changing scholarship in history, literature and the arts. Complete Series » Now historians have a new tool that can help. Like the crew on the starship Enterprise, humanists are exploring a new frontier of the scholarly universe: space. “Mapping spatial information reveals part of human history that otherwise we couldn’t possibly know,” said Anne Kelly Knowles, a geographer at Middlebury College in Vermont. Today visitors to Gettysburg can climb to the cupola of the Lutheran seminary, where Lee stationed himself on July 2, the second day of fighting; or stand on Seminary Ridge, where the next day Lee watched from behind the Confederate lines as thousands of his men advanced across the open farmland to their deaths in the notorious Pickett’s Charge.
So did Lt. Global Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Market to Reach US$10.6 Billion by 2015 - Directions Magazine | Geographic Information Technology. OPED: Empowering Citizen Cartographers. *As first appeared in The International Herald Tribune on Friday, January 13, 2012 The International Herald Tribune Empowering Citizen Cartographers January 13, 2012 By CAROLINE ANSTEY From cave drawings to navigational charts to GPS, people have created and used maps to help them define, order and navigate their worlds. A combination of the old art of mapping with the relatively new art of crowdsourcing — the open calls for action via the Web — offers the potential to open up a new path for the developing world: helping citizens map their own country’s facilities and thereby have a greater say in charting the future.
Citizen cartographers can be a powerful force. Last October, the World Bank and its partners staged the first ever global “water hackathon,” with volunteer tech experts in London devising a system to allow Tanzanians to report water problems through SMS messages, and tech experts in Lagos devising new applications for reporting broken pipes. The answer? SAIC Becomes Platinum Tier Partner With Esri. GIS, Geo Tech mapping news, data tips, jobs, tools - GIS sparks Cape Gantheaume fire management plan. Hidden Pictures. GIS Offers New Directions for Data By Brian Hudgins Sometimes a simple picture can say more than mountains of data—especially if that picture is created from the data itself. Akhlaque Haque, Ph.D., an associate professor of government at UAB and an expert in the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, learned this lesson in Cleveland.
Akhlaque Haque says GIS technology helps provide a fuller picture of how crime, health, economics, and other factors affect neighborhoods and cities.Haque was working as a graduate assistant at Cleveland State University in the early 1990s when he found a new way to drive home a point about shifting city revenues. “I took data showing the gradual loss of tax base in the city, and I was able to connect that data to geography and show where the tax base was moving,” he says. GIS combines satellite images and other mapmaking tools with data on economics, health, crime, or virtually any other type of information.
Building Blocks in Birmingham. Harrison County Progressing with GIS, Mapping Project. Haywood Road is one example of gray area for emergency responders in Harrison County. But some new advanced maps are changing the inconsistencies for responding agencies and 911 dispatchers. Like many counties, Harrison County is working on its Geographic Information System maps. Thus, residents who prior had P.O. Boxes will soon have real street addresses, or might already have them. "We're not sending people to the third house, past the barn, up the dirt road, past grandma's house. We're able to have a locate-able address for every structure in the county," said 911 Director Paul Bump. Delineating addresses also means dispatchers and emergency responders will have a new way of identifying places.
"That gives us the ability to quickly, not only know whose due, who is supposed to respond, but also proper directions and how to get there," Bump said. Bump met with all Harrison County fire chiefs Wednesday to work out disputed first due areas. This is a very good looking interactive #map of. Spatial Statistics: Best Practices. GIS, Geo Tech mapping news, data tips, jobs, tools - Feature - GIS Responding to Disaster and the 1999 Clarksville, TN Tornado - Lessons Learned. Dr. McCluskey was the Director of the Clarksville/Montgomery County, Tennessee, GIS Center and Professor of Geography at Austin Peay State University at the time on of the January 1999 Clarksville tornado. He currently teaches in the Department of Geography and Geology for the University of Wisconsin Colleges. Overview The Clarksville/ Montgomery County GIS Center (CMCGIS) was a fledgling organization in the fall of 1998. The Center was in its organizational phase with only minimal staff and funding when on January 22, 1999 a F3 tornado devastated the historic downtown district of the City of Clarksville, the campus of Austin Peay State University (APSU), and many business and homes in the community.
The purpose of this article is to outline the events which led to the formation of the CMCGIS and its response to the disaster. Figure 1. Figure 2. Figure 3. Fieldwork for the post-disaster damage assessment was begun by mid-morning. GIS Solutions. Esri’s interactive Hurricane and Cyclone Public Information Map (www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/hurricanes/latest-news-map) displays Typhoon Haiyan’s projected track across Southeast Asia.
According to the Weather Channel, Super Typhoon Haiyan was estimated to be a Category 5 storm and one of the strongest in history. The Esri map also provides links to geotagged social media from Flickr, Twitter, and YouTube about the storm. Click on map for full features The Town of Gilbert, Ariz., built this viewer with the ArcGIS API for Silverlight/WPF. The viewer uses enhanced identify and measuring tools, a map service selector, and search tools through a Web service. The Pomona College Grounds Department is using GIS to identify areas for changing landscape plant choices and irrigation technology. This interactive map includes information on every IMBA chapter in the US This detailed, interactive map of the Rolling Creek Trails is now available to all IMBA members Click here to register.
A Year of Resources in Review: 2011. Make Maps People Want to Look At. Winter 2012 Edition Five primary design principles for cartography By Aileen Buckley, Esri This article as a PDF. Cartographers apply many design principles when compiling their maps and constructing page layouts. Five of the main design principles are legibility, visual contrast, figure-ground organization, hierarchical organization, and balance. Together these principles form a system for seeing and understanding the relative importance of the content in the map and on the page. Visual contrast and legibility provide the basis for seeing the contents on the map. This article introduces you to these five principles and explains their importance in cartography. Figure 1. 1) Visual Contrast Visual contrast relates how map features and page elements contrast with each other and their background.
The concept of visual contrast also applies in cartography (Figure 1). Figure 2. 2) Legibility Legibility is the ability to be seen and understood. Figure 3. 3) Figure-Ground Organization Figure 4. Excellent!! Timelapse of geographic history in. GIS Aerial Maps: Discover The Many Uses | Geographic Information Technology. Coming of Age: R and Spatial Data Visualisation | Spatial Analysis | Geographic Information Technology. Independent Projects Turn Google’s Maps Into Entertainment | Geographic Information Technology. MapMart Cloud Rolls onto the GIS Scene. LONE TREE, COLORADO, January 9, 2012 – With the arrival of the New Year comes the formal release of the MapMart Cloud from MapMart. MapMart has long been the one-stop shop for traditional geospatial data and imagery acquisition and will remain so.
The MapMart Cloud will complement MapMart by offering the same high quality and highly accurate data for consumption via high speed data stream. MapMart Cloud offers hundreds of web services of data sets for the U.S. and the world. “Going to the Cloud is the distinct and immovable trend in geospatial data usage,” said Mike Platt, President and CEO of MapMart. “GIS users have had to deal with downloading and storing ever-growing data sets for too long. We aim to eliminate that issue by housing and maintaining master repositories for all manner of data for on-demand access by anyone at anytime.” Going forward, the location and usage of GIS data will be faster, cheaper and occur with fewer searching and storage issues. Geographic Information Systems as an Integrating Technology | Geographic Information Technology. Geographic Information Technology. Predicting Prehistoric Site Location in the Southern Caucasus.
Predicting Prehistoric Site Location in the Southern Caucasus By Christopher M. Nicholson, Charles P. Egeland, and Boris Gasparian Highlights ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extension modeling focused on the identification of areas with the potential for site preservation.Site suitability analysis enters geographic variables into a GIS model.Survey efforts in other areas and time periods can benefit from predictive modeling.
The southern Caucasus mountains (which includes the modern republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia), nestled between Africa, Europe, and Asia, has served as an important thoroughfare for human populations throughout the Paleolithic period (about 2.6 million to 12,000 years ago). Although the region has a rich record of Paleolithic research, many of the sites have not been analyzed with modern archaeological methods. Raster map of site suitability scores for the Debed River Valley. Ancient Pathways and Modern Survey Regions Site Suitability and Site Location Conclusion. Mapping & GIS Data.
Warning! | There might be a problem with the requested link. Federal Geographic Data Committee Launches Geospatial Platform Website -- A rich map resource. Madri+d. Mapa del Conocimiento. Indonesia to use GIS for forestry management. Public Safety : Tools for Social Media. An aggregation of different GIS uses in local and. Group. Tag: CityEngine | ArcGIS Video. 3D GIS Blog. A 2012 Esri GIS Look Ahead | Geographic Information Technology. Before and After the Storm | LBx Journal | Geographic Information Technology. Nottingham aims energy mapping at the home | Guardian Government Computing | Guardian Professional. Mapping_Urban_Permeability_with_ERDAS_IMAGINE.sflb. #OpenStreetMap - A Year of Edits 2011 through.
The Top 10 Best Maps — Ever! « Geo-Web Junction. America by Population Group. 3D – Not Just for TV and Games Any More | Geographic Information Technology. Find your Twitter Followers - Map My Followers. Transforming Business with Geographic Knowledge. OnWebMapping Predictions for 2012. Earth Sciences | Geography and Mapping. Are Nigerian Land Surveyors Natural GIS Experts? Sensor Web Services for Early Flood Warnings Based on Soil Moisture Profiles. Timoney’s Geo “Hot” List for 2012 : MapBrief™ Global-positioning-and-geographic-information-systems-help-create-an-environmentally-friendly-farm-20111228. Afghans Work to Preserve Habitat | ArcWatch. GeoNetworks | Geographic Information Technology. Bicentennial of the New Madrid Earthquakes: Seismic Calamity along the Mississippi | Geographic Information Technology. The Study Of Cartography | Go Map Yourself | Geographic Information Technology.