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Wabash County, IL needs new aerial imagery. How do officials know? Supervisor of Assessments Debbie Gittings said she is working on the 2012 assessments for taxes payable in 2013. She reported the county’s GIS service dates back to 2005 and “is obsolete.” She said using Google maps the...

The Lansdale, PA library has a $20,000 suplus this year due to successful fundraising. What to do with that money? Buliding improvements such as new carpeting and efficient lighting are among the ideas. So is GIS, but not for patrons, for marketing. Library staff are also looking into how an...

Google announced updates to its Map Maker editing tools. Now editors can see all the changes in their area of interest in a single panel. - Map Maker Forum Discussion via C|net A new tool, WHODIDIT, tracks changes to OpenStreetMap via a graphic or RSS. This is the default view which...

Scotts Bluff County [NE] Surveyor Duane Stott said the county has received calls from many residents who did not know where they needed to go to vote. He said the online map is a new way for residents to pinpoint poll places within their individual precincts. “We’ve had a lot of interest,”...

A thank you and request for more image reviewers from FEMA Federal Coordinating Officer Mike Hall. ---- original post 11/1/12 ---- FEMA, via the had the Civil Air Patrol, take aerial imagery in New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts on Oct 31 2012. It is looking for help...

The headline is copied from the Huffington Post, which is soliciting input on an Ushahidi (CrowdMap) map. I appreciate that text above the map explains: To submit a formal service request to your local government, use 311. For emergency assistance, call 911. But the text of article...

We are pleased to announce the establishment of first Open Source Geospatial Research and Education (OSGeoREL) Laboratory in the United States at the Center for Earth Observation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh. The laboratory is one of the founding members of a worldwide network...

The Free and Open Source GIS Ramblings Blog has a series of posts on visualizing Boston's bike sharing program data in QGIS. One question: do people ride downhill more than uphill? I live in Somerville, we must do both. I wrote about the Hubway Visualization Challenge earlier this month (APB...

Summit County, Ohio has four separate GIS groups that include 12 staffers. Legislation before the council would consolidate them to a single group of just 10 people and save $180,000 via staff downsizing and common purchasing. If passed the change could happen as soon as Nov 1. Interesting that...

NEURISA Day was Monday October 15 in Sturbridge, MA. The agenda included LiDAR in the morning, exhibitor speed networking before lunch, followed by tech trends and mobile tech in the afternoon. The attendees numbered just about 100 (it was a sell out) and fell into roughly equal thirds: local...