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The media has been all over this map/dataset/toolset this week.  The project was originally noted by its author former Google engineer Nelson Minar on his blog back in May. "It’s mostly a demo project with readable source" he noted May 21 on his blog,                          The map and other...

We don't really know the route of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Good thing author and photographer Thomas Bachand  is on the case. He's been submitting requests for GIS and ther data from agencies to develop he Keystone Mapping Project (KMP) a nationally recognized multimedia and photography...

An e-mail from the folks at GitHub (though we'd already seen the buzz on Twitter) announces new mapping visualization on that platform. (Not sure what GitHub is? See Directions Magazine coverage.) TL;DR: commit a .geojson file to a repository, and GitHub will render any points, lines, or...

Homer Township [IL] officials this week voted to send a letter to the Will County Board in support of a resolution banning the use of aerial photos of private property for code enforcement. Those against the use of imagery, used and taken without the property owner's permission, argue this...

Consumer group Consumer Watchdog, a frequent critic of Google feels the deal would take away Google’s major competitor in mobile maps. The group sent letters to that effect to the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday. In the letters John Simpson, Consumer...

There's a move to a new GIS in Richmond County, NC. I thnk the move is from ADF to Flex. The GIS director is holding a workshop to gather input for the new implementation, which will include, among other things, crowdsourced editing. Now the company that owns the GIS system, Esri, is...

Linda Rockwood, the owner of Mohawk Valley GIS in Herkimer, NY, recently moved her Web mapping clients from Manifold’s Internet mapping solution to one built around CartoDB and Leaflet. We discuss the transition: the whys, hows, challenges and lessons learned.

Andrew Curtis, director of Kent State’s G.I.S. Health & Hazards Lab and former director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Remote Sensing, brought at least one student into a project using video cameras to map the impact of two torandos in Monroe Moore,  OK. The article...

As hurricane season begins The United States National Grid is back in the news in Florida. Al Studt, a search and rescue trainer for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s District 4 and a Cape Canaveral firefighter is trying to get his local responders to use it. Despite USGS announcements...

in May, Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) Geography Department, in cooperation with the Department of Continuing Education, granted certificates to its first graduates of the Geographic Information Science (GIS) Certificate Program. The four course sequence is built on the GTCM and is...