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Namibia Municipal GIS and other International GIS News

Namibia Ephraim Katjatjena, the spokesperson of the Omururu Municipality, said the town recently launched its Geographical Information System (GIS) in conjunction with the Polytechnic of Namibia and the Tavastia Vocational Training College in Finland.  This...Read more

Iranian Nuclear Sites and other Crowdsourcing GIS News

Open Nuclear Iran is a crowdsourced effort developed anonymously by concerned Iranians and experts from the arms control community to document, assess, and share information on Iran's nuclear program in an open forum. It's a CrowdMap implementation. via...Read more

New Lyme Disease Map and other Health GIS News

A new map pinpoints well-defined areas of the Eastern United States where humans have the highest risk of contracting Lyme disease, one of the most rapidly emerging infectious diseases in North America, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...Read more

NJ Hospital Mortality Rates and other Health GIS News

The New Jersey Department of Health rated 72 major hospitals across the state according to the number of deaths per 100 patients for pneumonia, stroke, heart attack, and heart failure. That data was used to create the Google Map. - NJ Spotlight An...Read more

Waze, Safely and Rxs and other LBS News

A company called LowestMed has launched a mobile app that allows consumers to compare drug prices at their local pharmacy chains. The app will be a mobile extension of the company's Web resource for comparative drug prices and prescription discount...Read more

New Malaria Risk Maps and Data and other Health GIS News

In a study published in the Malaria Journal, a multinational team of researchers from the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP), funded mainly by the Wellcome Trust, present the results of a two-year effort to assemble all available data worldwide on the risk...Read more

Podcast: GIS Teachable Moments in the News

Three items in the news in early January are teachable moments in geotechnology, for students and citizens and for the geospatial community. They include satellite imagery from the cruise ship Costa Concordia, Google tangling with OSM and World Bank, and an outbreak of...Read more

Comparing Maps of Obesity and Car Travel and other Health GIS News

Here, we examine visually, through a series of maps, the association between obesity, diabetes, and sedentary transportation. The maps are striking, but Anne Price and Ariel Godwin conclude: ... the relationship between sedentary travel and health...Read more