The Berrien County, Michigan, Geographic Information System (GIS) is holding a seminar to introduce its new GIS provded by Schnieder Corporation. The session is free (I think), but using the GIS is not.
The cost of using the GIS website is $15 per day or $50 per month plus a processing fee compared to the previous website price of $10 per hour plus a processing fee.
There are allegations the tourism board in Joplin, MO is handing out maps to encourage visitors to the tornado ravaged area. Officials say the map was created to respond to direct requests, rather than to promote such visits.
Moscow has spent 20 billion roubles on its own map, hoping it will be used to crowdsource data on streetlight outages and the like. It should be online next month at atlas.mos.ru. The city feels maps from Google and Yandex can't do that job. I think Esri is doing the mapping.
Sergei Scherbina, Deputy Director at ESRI CIS- Moscow map service developer says the Moscow informational site will be updated frequently with more information and services for users.
Open data proponents are wary of the new map and how embeddable it may be.
- RT
The City Council of Bainbridge, GA has an agreement with the University of Georgia's Carl Vinson Institute of Government to develop a GIS (Geographic Information System) for the City. The $45,000 will put 7,300 parcels online in about four months.
