GISCafe Voice Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ CategoryFind the closest…er, haunted houseTuesday, October 27th, 2009Location-based technology enjoys some holiday fun with MapQuest’s latest “ghost icon search button” within the On-Map Search tool (located to the right hand side of the map). This search shows not only locations of haunted houses and other Halloween festivities, but also includes a link to the web sites of haunted houses when available. For more information, visit the MapQuest team blog at: http://blog.mapquest.com/. GIS and why government can’t be more like businessWednesday, October 21st, 2009Herhold: Government failures flourish in dark by Scott Herhold, October 19, 2009 – San Jose Mercury News Car theft reduced as a result of GPS technologyTuesday, October 20th, 2009An article in USA Today, October 19, by Donna Leinwand, entitled “Car theft slows to lowest in 20 years” cites GPS technology and ignition locks as the cause of this positive change. “Reported vehicle theft has fallen to a 20-year low even as the number of vehicles on the road has doubled, as manufacturers install sophisticated anti-theft technology in cars and police target organized car-theft rings.” Human Behavior Monitoring and InterpretationFriday, October 16th, 2009The 3rd Workshop on Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation: Studying Moving Objects in a three-dimensional world, is to be held in conjunction with the 4th International 3D Geoinfo Workshop, and will take place on November 3 2009 in Ghent, Belgium. “Modelling ‘reality’ has always been a fundamental issue in geography. Considering two major aspects of reality, i.e. space and time, leads to a crucial GIScience research domain concerning moving objects. Indeed, motion or movement enters the picture whenever one and the same object occupies different positions in space at different times. Great advances have been made in the context of positioning techniques in recent years. As a consequence, application areas such as navigation, location based services, ubiquitous computing, smart places, ambient intelligence, and more specific areas like ambient assisted living came into existence. One fundamental issue in all these areas is the consideration of locomotion behaviours of humans for whom such technologies are devised. Besides such application areas, different scientific fields, such as ecology or geographical information science call for methods helping in analysing the spatiotemporal behaviour of moving people. Moreover, these research fields and application areas state new fundamental questions concerned with the analysis of locomotion behaviour, making it necessary to provide a scientific forum as this workshop is intended to be.” 3rd Workshop on Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation, BMI’09 American Samoan GIS resourcesWednesday, October 7th, 2009Here is a collection of resources for GIS data on American Samoa, the area hit by tsunami last week. GISCorps’ Shoreh Elhami said that as of yet, they have not received any requests for volunteers. Fagatelle Bay National Marine Sanctuary Pacific Disaster Center: http://www.pdc.org/pdf/factsheets/American_Samoa.pdf NOAA Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management for American Samoa: http://coastalmanagement.noaa.gov/mystate/american_samoa.html New schedule for GISWeeklyTuesday, October 6th, 2009GISWeekly will launch on the 12th and 26th of October. In subsequent months, the publication will offer two issues per month instead of four. Because there is so much GIS news, readers are encouraged to also check the blogs, news offerings and other content on GISCafe for additional up-to-date coverage. GIS system comes to Azerbaijan tourismFriday, October 2nd, 2009
TopoOSM ColoradoTuesday, September 29th, 2009Topo map of Colorado based on OpenStreetMap and USGS data http://toposm.com/co/ Municipal GIS Desktop Browser for Cities and TownsMonday, September 28th, 2009“Municipal GIS Desktop Browser for Cities and Towns 2.12 brings a powerful, perfect and popular Geographic Information Systems (G.I.S.) mapping application designed just for city, town, and county offices. Create your own maps and add your own data. Then browse the map or search for properties by Owner, Address or Parcel ID. View detailed information and building photos for each parcel via a database link.” http://babysofts.com/municipal-gis-desktop-browser-for-cities-and-towns-212/ |
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