Beyond Earthquakes: Leveraging GIS and Volunteered Geographic Information. GIS Technology Helps Health Care Industry Save Lives. Cost Recovery in Public Sector GIS Programs. Bluesky Launches Online LiDAR Map of Britain. Geospatial Technologies and Sustainable Energy Policy. Culture and Commerce of Chennai City – A Spatial Analysis of the Relationship between Temples and Retail Activity. Politicians use GIS technology to their advantage. Social Media and the Emergence of Open-Source Geospatial Intelligence. Learn How Open Source Software Benefits a Successful GIS Business. 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. Google Earth 6.2: It’s a beautiful world. 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.
How fragile are the networks that we depend upon for today's GIS ... GIS and its Conceptual Framework « Computers, Society, and Nature. What Makes New York's Shawangunk Mountains One of the "Last Great Places"? (ArcNews Online) 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. 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. New, Insightful Ways to Describe the World. 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. 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: Danish Energy Company Focuses on Smart Grid via Geographic Information Systems.
Mapping Center : Combining colored and grayshade rasters with high fidelity. Esri Partnership to Improve US Fuel Efficiency Standards (ArcNews Online) 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. Global Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Market to Reach US$10.6 Billion by 2015 - Directions Magazine. OPED: Empowering Citizen Cartographers. *As first appeared in The International Herald Tribune on Friday, January 13, 2012 The International Herald Tribune Empowering Citizen Cartographers.
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. 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. 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.
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. 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. Excellent!! Timelapse of geographic history in. GIS Aerial Maps: Discover The Many Uses. Coming of Age: R and Spatial Data Visualisation. Independent Projects Turn Google’s Maps Into Entertainment. 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. Geographic Information Systems as an Integrating 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.
Mapping & GIS Data. There might be a problem with the requested link. Federal Geographic Data Committee Launches Geospatial Platform Website. Madri+d. Mapa del Conocimiento. Indonesia to use GIS for forestry management. Public Safety : Tools for Social Media. During the Emergency Management Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting (sponsored by IBM) at the Esri International User Conference I gave a talk on Tools for Social Media. An aggregation of different GIS uses in local and. Group. Tag: CityEngine. 3D GIS Blog. Geographic Information Technology. Geographic Information Technology. Nottingham aims energy mapping at the home. Rising energy prices and concerns about carbon emissions are making us all increasingly conscious of how much we spend on gas and electricity. A lot of organisations are ready to provide advice for reducing the bill, but now a city council is ready to use geographical information systems (GIS) to give people guidance in response to information about their homes.
From this month people in Nottingham will be able to access online guidance about energy saving tailored to their individual properties. The council is readying its energy mapping facility, which until now has been used internally, for web access by the public. Mapping_Urban_Permeability_with_ERDAS_IMAGINE.sflb. #OpenStreetMap - A Year of Edits 2011 through. The Top 10 Best Maps — Ever! « Geo-Web Junction. December 27, 2011. America by Population Group. Images below are via Radical Cartography (h/t Foseti) Similar US maps available for percent Native American and percent Pacific Islander A higher percent European population is generally seen in lower crime and higher income regions. A higher percentage of persons of African descent is generally seen in high crime, low income regions. Blacks tend to concentrate in cities. Geographic Information Technology. Find your Twitter Followers - Map My Followers.
Transforming Business with Geographic Knowledge. Fall 2011 Edition By Karen Richardson, Esri Writer This article as a PDF. Patrick O'Hagan, Starbucks Coffee Company's manager of global market planning for the world's largest retail coffee chain, served some great advice to executives at the 2011 Esri Business Summit: Don't put the buggy before the horse.
Warner De Gooijer, strategic analyst and project manager for global supply chain operations at Cisco Systems, Inc., was one of the speakers at the Esri Business Summit plenary session. OnWebMapping Predictions for 2012. The Web Map continues to get better and better each and every year. Improvements in data, browser technology, cloud services continue to change the game. In 2011 we saw the rise of the tablet, a solid mobile foundation, wider adoption of HTML5 and greater use in cloud technology. So what is coming in 2012 you might ask? Geography and Mapping. Are Nigerian Land Surveyors Natural GIS Experts? Is a big fat “Nigeria jaga jaga everything scatter scatter ” thanks to Abdul Karim’s song Historically, the practice of surveying in Nigeria is rich and robust. Land Surveying is the science and art of making all essential measurements to determine the relative position of points and/or physical and cultural details above, on, or beneath the surface of the Earth, and to depict them in a usable form, or to establish the position of points and/or details.
(Source: 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. Geographic Information Technology. Bicentennial of the New Madrid Earthquakes: Seismic Calamity along the Mississippi. Geographic Information Technology.