Webcast of interest… can’t get to Vegas this week to take in the Navteq LBSChallenge awards ceremony? No problem as you can kick back in your office chair and watch the awards live via webcast – a great way to save some cash and enjoy seeing and hearing from some of the coolest developers of innovative LBS apps. Watch Live Announcement of Winners from CTIA WIRELESS on April 2, 2008 at www.LBSChallenge.com at 3:00 p.m. PST
Entries from March 2008
Census data update – USA Counties data files
March 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Downloadable data files have been created to accompany the web-based USA Counties. Now users can download directly more than 5,900 data items from the Web site for the United States, the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and all 3,141 counties and county equivalents. Information in USA Counties covers topics such as: age, agriculture, ancestry, banking, building permits, business patterns, crime, earnings, education, elections, employment, government, health, households, housing, income, labor force, manufactures, population, poverty, retail trade, social programs, veterans, vital statistics, water use, and wholesale trade. See http://www.census.gov/support/USACdata.html
Categories: census
New Census data – USA Counties data files
March 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Downloadable data files have been created to accompany the web-based USA Counties. Now users can download directly more than 5,900 data items from the Web site for the United States, the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and all 3,141 counties and county equivalents. Information in USA Counties covers topics such as: age, agriculture, ancestry, banking, building permits, business patterns, crime, earnings, education, elections, employment, government, health, households, housing, income, labor force, manufactures, population, poverty, retail trade, social programs, veterans, vital statistics, water use, and wholesale trade. See http://www.census.gov/support/USACdata.html
Categories: census
Yahoo? dev net’s Mcalister jumps ship to join The Guardian
March 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Interesting to see that The Guardian, you know, that cool UK newspaper, has stolen Matt Mcalister away from Yahoo!’s developer network. Matt will be joining the Guardian crew in London to help develop a new developer program. Definitely a testament as to how serious the new/online media is and how some cool, new opportunities are waiting the developer. See also http://www.guardian.co.uk
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Event of interest – FEMA Risk Map Industry Day
March 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The purpose of the event is for interested contractors to hear from the Federal government on how current business is handled within the Risk Analysis Division and plans for the future of Risk MAP. The Industry day will be held on:
Wednesday, 2 April 2008, Beginning at 1:00 Pm and ending at 4:00 PM.
Location: Crystal City Marriott at Reagan National Airport
1999 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA 22202
Proposed Agenda:
1:00 Welcome
1:05 Introductions
1:10 Overview of Map Modernization
1:25 Branch Overviews – How we currently do business
MIP/MSCs
RMCs/IDIQs
HAZUS/CTPs
Governance
2:10 Bucket Overviews – How we plan to do business
Program Management
Customer and Data Services
Production and Technical Services
2:40 Break
3:30 Answer Session
4:00 Close
Info – Pre-Registration is not required. Please limit the participation of your firm and all business units of your firm to 5 personnel or less. See also here
Categories: events
ArcDigita Aggegates GIS updates from the web
March 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
This comes my way via GISuser reader Ken, he’s developed a news aggregation tool for neogegraphers and everything GIS at ArcDigita.com… this from Ken – “I’ve developed ArcDigita out of a passion for geography and everything GIS and geospatial technology. I am especially encouraged by the new movement of ‘neogeography’ that has been made possible by great tools such as the Google Maps API and programming languages like AJAX, to name 2 of many, many examples.
There are a lot of great stories out there, and it’s my hope that ArcDigita can aggregate the most interesting ones in a meaningful manner. The editors of the site are it’s users, and they’ll decide what gets posted, and what stays posted through an advanced voting system. Users can even comment on the news and have productive discussions on it’s merits.” Users register and can contribute their news updates (somewhat reminicent of BlinkGeo when it first started)
He’s running a small contest through April where a user can win a $20 gift certificate to Amazon.com – ArcDigita.com
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6th Vespucci summer institute in geographic information science
March 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Michael Gould just passed along some information about the 6th Vespucci summer institute.
The 6th Vespucci summer institute in geographic information science is just after the OGC TC meeting in Germany. Taking place 9-20 June (2 sessions) 2008 in the Tuscan hills overlooking Florence, Italy.
Details
Week 1: Geo-sensor web, leaders include Mike Botts, Antonio Camara
Week 2: GI Science supporting Virtual Globes, leaders include Gilberto Camara, Mike Goodchild, Ed Parsons
Vespucci sessions are intense,highly-interactive events bringing together senior+junior minds, in a relaxing, productive atmosphere. More info on registration and/or sponsorship: summer08(at)vespucci(dot)org – see http://www.vespucci.org
Categories: education
London Profiler themes maps with freeware GMap (Google map) Creator
March 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment
This interesting story comes out of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London courtesy of the BBC. Using a freeware app know as the Google Map Creator, a team of clever geographers has developed the the London Profiler website. According to the team, here you can visualise your neighbourhood’s profile using different area classifications through the Google Map interface. All the themes have been created with GMap Creator. Think amazing, thematic mapping served up via google maps. About the application…
The Google Map Creator is a freeware application designed to make thematic mapping using Google Maps simpler. The application takes a shapefile containing geographic areas linked with attributes and automatically generates a working Google Maps website from the data. It does this by pre-creating all the necessary files and saving them into a directory. Publishing the map on the web is then just a matter of copying files onto a web server, allowing Google Maps to be used with the majority of ISPs. See http://www.londonprofiler.org/
Categories: google maps
Live Traffic camera feeds made simple via TrafficLand
March 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment
I received an update this morning from TrafficLand describing their latest offerings in the Portland, OR area. Curiosity got the best of me and I had to check out the resource. Turns out to be one of the coolest traffic information aggregators that I’ve come accross to date. A simple, free registration enables me to browse all the camera feeds and start adding favorites to my bookmarks and even embed the camera feeds into my website or blog (see below). The extensive list of camera feeds enables access to cameras from most major cities in the US as well as a few cities in other countries. To my suprise Fort Collins was listed as well as the areas along I-70, west of Denver, infamously known for heavy traffic and some wild weather. Selecting a city brings up thumbnails of popular cameras, a google map showing locations of the cams, and weather updates from Weatherbug. With the latest updates from Oregon, users can also view the ODOT traffic cameras by Web-enabled cell phones and PDAs via the company’s fee-based AirVideo service… This service is definitley a must use for me the next time I plan a trip through the mountains to the West Coast… great stuff! See www.TrafficLand.com
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6th annual Visualization Challenge deadline near
March 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment
HEads up as The 2008 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge draws to a close. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the journal Science, the flagship publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the 6th annual Visualization Challenge will accept entries only until May 31st. The Challenge recognizes the increasing importance and power of visualizations. They illuminate and explain to the public the crucial work of science and engineering. Increasingly, they have also become an essential analytical tool for those researchers themselves, revealing the patterns, structures, and truth beneath the data.
For rules, entry forms, and more information, see: www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis
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