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Friday, January 21st, 2011Esri ZIP Code Lookup tool lets you learn about local population
Monday, January 17th, 2011Not exactly new, but notable is Esri’s ZIP Code Lookup tool that allows anyone to enter a ZIP Code in the U.S. and learn about those who live in that area.
Demographic and market information such as income, employment, vehicle preferences, and leisure activities are among the data the tool will display.
To use the tool, the user enters a ZIP Code, then the browser-based Silverlight application instantly generates three of what is known as Tapestry segments for the area in question. Esri’s Tapestry Segmentation system classifies U.S. residential neighborhoods into unique market segments that are based on socioeconomic and demographic data.
What is GeoDesign?
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
On January 6 and 7, Esri brought together a meeting of the minds at their GeoDesign Summit held in Redlands, Calif. at Esri headquarters. The event brought together both GIS professionals and architects and engineering professionals in a think-tank setting to discuss how the two technology sectors and cultures might converge in order to make the best of both of them in shared settings.
Some definitions for the term “GeoDesign” which was coined by Esri to describe the convergence of geography and design:
From Wikipedia comes the definition:
Geodesign is a set of techniques and enabling technologies for planning built and natural environments in an integrated process, including project conceptualization, analysis, design specification, stakeholder participation and collaboration, design creation, simulation, and evaluation (among other stages). “Geodesign is a design and planning method which tightly couples the creation of design proposals with impact simulations informed by geographic contexts.”
From other notable professionals:
Some definitions for the term “GeoDesign” which was coined by Esri to describe the convergence of geography and design:
“Geodesign is a design and planning method which tightly couples the creation of design proposals with impact simulations informed by goegraphic contexts.” – Mike Flaxman
“Geodesign is changing geography by design,” Carl Steinitz
“GIS is about is, geodesign is about what could be.” Tom Fisher
Esri’s “My Place History” app
Monday, November 8th, 2010A new app from Esri called “My Place History” allows you to enter addresses of places you’ve lived or spent time and see public health information for those locations. The app uses publicly available data from the EPA Toxic Release Inventory and the NIH’s known chemical database. It also has a heart attack index to show where the most heart attacks occur in the country. Future versions will include additional databases for water quality, lead contamination, cancer, mortality, and poverty. Mapping API provided by ArcGIS API for iOS.
So far, the areas I have lived in that I thought would have more toxic chemical exposure have had less, and the areas I thought would have less, have more!
Esri’s Business Analyst Online (BAO) demographic data app available in Apple App store
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010Announced before ESRI UC, was an iPhone application that provides users with detailed demographic data for any given location. The app, called BAO (Business Analyst Online), will be available for free at the Apple App Store.
-Government Technology, June 01, 2010
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