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In an economy where job openings remain limited and new, unemployed college graduates are piling up, the prospect of bringing on qualified, low-to-no-cost intern labor has never been better. Matt Lamborn of Pacific Geodata provides seven tips for companies who need qualified labor but who are on a tight budget.
In the first 30-Second Pitch, Valarm describes its Android technology for fleet tracking.
The following article was authored by Peter Batty of Ubisense who spent the past couple of days at the js.geo event in Denver, which was a small informal conference focused on JavaScript and geospatial, organized by Chris Helm, Steve Citron-Pousty and Brian Timoney.
If you work for a GIS company, it has a business model and a plan to make money. But how successful is that business model? Has it been compared to the latest best practices and tweaked to best match customers’ needs and expectations? It may be time for a New Year’s check-up, courtesy of Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg.
The advancing technology to make navigation more personal and relevant is becoming manifest in the applications being developed for indoor location and positioning. Editor in Chief Joe Francica spoke with aisle411’s Kris Kolodziej about how Walgreens is using the company’s app to improve customers’ indoor shopping experiences by helping them find products faster.
The U.S. Geological Survey's Larry Moore provides an update on the US Topo effort, the Survey’s general purpose, digital, quadrangle map series. He outlines the successes thus far and the obstacles still ahead in 2013.
The following article is the introduction to a new book by Dr. Christoper Lavers of the Britannia Royal Naval College entitled "Recent Developments in Remote Sensing for Human Disaster Management and Mitigation- Natural and Man-made 2013 - Spotlight on Africa." Over the next several weeks, Directions Magazine will present excerpts from this book dealing with remote sensing applications for environmental analysis.
NASA held a press briefing on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), the eighth satellite to be launched in the ongoing Landsat mission. Read the details on the mission's status.
There’s been lots of news from skobbler, a company that offers a mapping app built on OpenStreetMap, in recent months. Directions Magazine interviewed Marcus Thielking, co-founder of skobbler, about the company’s success.
How do you manage your GIS data and all the data within your asset management system? The Asset IT department of the Napier City Council in New Zealand has recently completed phase one of a project which will allow it to manage the data within the asset management system directly from the GIS environment. Napier’s GIS developer, Ian Tidy, takes us through the process.
Journal News Removes Interactive Gun Permit Map
The Lower Hudson Journal News has been under fire for publishing a map of gun permit holders in two counties in New York State before Christma. (APB coverage 1, 2, podcast). On Friday January 18 the paper removed the interactive map. Why? Publisher Janet Hasson gave answers in a media statement and in a letter to readers.
In a statement in response to The Poynter Institute (a journalism school) she argued:
With the passage this week of the NYSAFE gun law, which allows permit holders to request their names and addresses be removed from the public record, we decided to remove the gun permit data from lohud.com at 5 pm today. While the new law does not require us to remove the data, we believe that doing so complies with its spirit. For the past four weeks, there has been vigorous debate over our publication of the permit data, which has been viewed nearly 1.2 million times by readers. One of our core missions as a newspaper is to empower our readers with as much information as possible on the critical issues they face, and guns have certainly become a top issue since the massacre in nearby Newtown, Conn. Sharing as much public information as possible provides our readers with the ability to contribute to the discussion, in any way they wish, on how to make their communities safer. We remain committed to our mission of providing the critical public service of championing free speech and open records.
In a letter to readers published on Friday she wrote:
So intense was the opposition to our publication of the names and addresses that legislation passed earlier this week in Albany included a provision allowing permit holders to request confidentiality and imposing a 120-day moratorium on the release of permit holder data.
She goes on to say that during the 27 days the map was online any one interested would have seen it and that the data would eventually be out of date. She also noted that the paper does not endorse the way the state chose to limit availability of the data.
The original map/article still includes a graphic - but it's a snapshot, a raster image, with no interactivity. Says Hasson in the letter to readers:
And we will keep a snapshot of our map — with all its red dots — on our website to remind the community that guns are a fact of life we should never forget.
I continue to applaud the paper for requesting the data via a Freedom on Informat request, mapping it, keeping the map up despite threats and criticism and now responding to state law. I think the paper did a service to the state, to citizens and to journalism.
- via reader Jim and Poynter
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