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Adena Schutzberg

Adena Schutzberg

Adena Schutzberg is Executive Editor of Directions Magazine and contributes to its widely-read electronic newsletters, website, podcasts and blogs. Before joining Directions Magazine, Schutzberg founded and edited GIS Monitor for nearly five years. She is also the Principal of ABS Consulting Group, Inc., a GIS consulting firm providing services to clients including GIS software, data, and imagery companies. 

Before opening her own company, Schutzberg headed U.S. operations for UK-based Cadcorp, and held several positions at ESRI over eight years. She began her career heading Arthur D. Little’s CAD/GIS lab and teaching college geography. She holds a BA in Chemistry from the University of Chicago and an MS in Geography from Pennsylvania State University.

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Recent Content by Adena Schutzberg

  1. GIS Business Model Check-up (January 17th, 2013)
  2. How skobbler Uses OpenStreetMap to Advantage (January 9th, 2013)
  3. Top 5 Non-Directions Magazine Articles from Fall 2012 (December 27th, 2012)
  4. Top 5 Directions Magazine Articles from Fall 2012 (December 27th, 2012)
  5. Top 5 Directions Magazine Government Articles from Fall 2012 (December 26th, 2012)
  6. Top 5 All Points Blog Posts from Fall 2012 (December 20th, 2012)
  7. Top 5 Directions Magazine Podcasts from Fall 2012 (December 19th, 2012)
  8. The Top Ten GIS Stories of 2012 (December 17th, 2012)
  9. CityMaps Provides More Than Just Maps of Cities (December 6th, 2012)
  10. Research Explores How to Keep Up With Changing Web Mapping Technology (December 5th, 2012)
  11. Nokia Rebrands Mapping: The Perspective from an Enterprise GIS Partner (November 20th, 2012)
  12. Naming Names (November 8th, 2012)
  13. URISA Celebrates the Past at GIS-Pro 2012, Whither the Future? (November 1st, 2012)
  14. Destination Spatial: Australia and New Zealand Aim High with Education and Job Recruitment Movement for GIS and Geospatial (October 29th, 2012)
  15. Digging into the Open Source Geospatial Software and OpenGeo Suite 3.0 (October 8th, 2012)
  16. A Brief History of Red and Blue on U.S. Elections Maps (October 4th, 2012)
  17. REAL Appeals Twice, But Court Continues to Rule in Favor of Move, Inc. on Real Estate Mapping Patent (September 27th, 2012)
  18. New Resources for GIS Job Seekers (September 17th, 2012)
  19. New Free GIS and Geography Teaching Resources (September 6th, 2012)
  20. Are You a Geogeek? (August 30th, 2012)
  21. New GIS Education Options for Fall 2012 (August 22nd, 2012)
  22. Takeaways from Esri UC 2012 (July 30th, 2012)
  23. An Action Plan to Make Geospatial Conferences More Engaging (July 19th, 2012)
  24. Top 10 Things Geospatial Organizations Should Do Before Sharing Big News With the Press (July 18th, 2012)
  25. Mapping Political Opinion by SSID (July 12th, 2012)
  26. New GIS-based Tools Let Students Try Their Hand at Watershed Management (June 28th, 2012)
  27. Thematic Map of Most Popular Website by Country (June 27th, 2012)
  28. Podcast: Is ArcGIS Online for Organizations for your Organization? (June 25th, 2012)
  29. GeoAtlantic 2012: The State of GIS in the Canadian Maritimes (June 21st, 2012)
  30. 10 Things You Need to Know About GPS (June 18th, 2012)
  31. A First in GIS Education: Long Island University’s Online Advanced Certificate in Mobile GIS Applications Development (June 11th, 2012)
  32. NYC Parking Regulations Mapped; Does it Serve Users Well? (June 7th, 2012)
  33. Oracle and Spatial: An Update (June 7th, 2012)
  34. Visiting All the U.S. Counties for Fun (May 30th, 2012)
  35. Can Geofeedia Provide Location-based Citizen Input to Journalists? (May 23rd, 2012)
  36. Bike Score Rates (and Maps) Bikeability (May 21st, 2012)
  37. PolyZoom: See Details of Map Along with Context (May 17th, 2012)
  38. Not the Game of Life, But a Map of Life (May 15th, 2012)
  39. Do Children in the Backseat of Cars Have Less Complete Mental Maps of their Neighborhoods? (May 10th, 2012)
  40. Web Media Outlets Take On Mapping (May 9th, 2012)
  41. Would a Game Get You Involved in Planning Your City? (May 9th, 2012)
  42. Envelope with White Powder Appears at Greenwich, CT GIS Department (May 3rd, 2012)
  43. A Review: Key Resources on GIS and Health (May 3rd, 2012)
  44. Will the train be stopping at Esri? (May 2nd, 2012)
  45. GIS: Still An Under the Radar Job (May 1st, 2012)
  46. TerraGo and GeoPDF Continue to Serve Map Users (April 30th, 2012)
  47. Ten Things You Need to Know About OpenStreetMap (April 19th, 2012)
  48. Takeaways From the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial North America (#FOSS4GNA) 2012 (April 16th, 2012)
  49. Is Intergraph’s New GeoMedia Smart Client for You? (April 9th, 2012)

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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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