The EPA is making a bold and rather inspiring move in making an effort to post their data online for use in Mashups and online Mapping applications. As of Wednesday, they have posted a few hundred of the Superfund sites they have maintained for the last 25 years or so. The article indicates they plan
Electorial Geography Website Launches
Our friend Dr. Ken Martis, who we interviewed back in November on episode 68, sent us this link to the new Electoral Geography website that has just launched. Alexander Kireev seems to be the main person/contact at the site. I haven’t had time to look at the site in depth, but what I have seen
How do you want your geospatial weather data
The National Weather Service is seeking input on its geospatial data services, and would like you to offer comments here. They recognize that “While most NWS information is geospatial in nature, the NWS does not yet systematically provide that information in GIS-ready formats.” They are looking for input on what types of weather data, geospatial
New Smithsonian Exhibition on Earth from Space
The National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian is debuting a new exhibit starting today entitled Earth from Space. The exhibit features a gallery of remotely-sensed images of the Earth, as well as showing how remote sensing data is gathered and some of the applications it is utilized for. The exhibit has been getting
UK Intellectual Property Philosophy Should Change, Report Says
Although this isn’t strictly geo based, I think the topic is important enough to anyone with information (A.K.A Data) to mention. The folks over at ars technica have an interesting discussion about a new report released by the Institute for Public Policy Research on Intellectual Property Law. I can’t find a link directly to the
One Geography to rule them all
GeoConnexion UK (Sept/Oct 2006) has an article on Scotland’s geospatial portal – The Geospatial Project Registry Home Page. While it has been around since 2005, it seems to have had some updates recently (the site says that version 2.0.1 went live in August). The site offers a great way to find out about projects that
SensorMap from Microsoft Research
I’ve been waiting awhile to check this out, but Microsoft Research has finally gotten their SensorMap project portal up and running as part of their larger SenseWeb project. Basically, SensorMap lets you bring in real-time data feeds, including video, and link them to the Windows Live Local map plaform. So far, they’ve got some traffic
DHS Mandates Information Sharing
David over at Surveying, Mapping and GIS points out some wording in the 2007 DHS authorization legislation that will create an Information Fusion Center that will coordinate state, local and tribal level information fusion centers (as I read it). As we near the end of the US federal fiscal year we will continue to see
Lost some UC audio
Well, we lost one interview out of almost 100, and we only lost half of that. The biggest issue with losing it is that it was a GREAT breakdown of the geodatabase(s) at 9.2. If anyone at ESRI would like to answer our questions again about the geodatabase formats, new and old, let us know
The hammer for every nail
I am going to jump on a bandwagon, one we are probably all on at some level, and give a mighty ‘hear-hear’ to Adena for pointing out that OpenSource isn’t always the answer, often open standards play as much, if not more of a role in our data oriented industry. Despite a few slips of
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