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UK Police Give Out GPS Trackers to Alzheimer Patients and other Health GIS News

Last week, Sussex police in southeast England announced a plan to buy GPS devices for a few people with dementia who are at high risk of getting lost. The police couldn't say how many devices would be bought but have invested 600 pounds, or $935, into the...Read more

John Snow and cholera: how myth helped secure his place in history

The high-profile marking of John Snow’s bicentenary on the fifteenth of March would have surprised the great man. TheLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the WellcomeTrust, and The Lancet were among the august UK organisations to honour him with...Read more

Mapping Safe Solutions in Ethiopia and other Health GIS News

DKT Ethiopia is an affiliate of DKT International, a non-profit organization that seeks to provide couples with affordable and safe options for family planning and HIV prevention in 19 low- and middle-income countries. In Ethiopia, DKT uses social marketing to...Read more

Army and NGA Geospatial RFPs Expected this Spring

The Army has opportunities including set asides for small businesses. The Installation Geospatial Information Services program will provide basic installation, energy and environment geospatial capability across the Army. Awardees will develop standard data...Read more

GISCorps volunteer returns from a World Vision mission in Sierra Leone

In September 2012, Jim Tobias, a Senior GIS Developer with Northrop Grumman in Atlanta GA, was deployed to an onsite mission in Sierra Leone. The request for volunteer came from World Vision and was for a GIS/GPS Specialist to undertake mapping of health and education facilities in...Read more