State and Local Government

Auburn City Council Exponare API: Exponare is a service that links geographic information from a range of databases and applications and displays this information in one map interface. This particular implementation of Exponare is hosted and used by the Auburn City Council, which is located in...

The Bureau of Meteorology's interactive weather forecasting chart has added new colours – deep purple and pink – to extend its previous temperature range that had been capped at 50 degrees.   Source: Bureau of Meteorology And that's 50 C aka 122 F for those in the U.S. The new range...

Most readers know Pictometry, the company that provides oblique imagery with enough detail and tools to be used for measuerement. It did very well in the public sector in past years via many homeland security and other grants. I've not heard of EagleView, but here's its description of...

I'd not heard of open source EpiCollect developed at Imperial College London: EpiCollect is a generic data collection tool that allows you to collect and submit geotagged data forms (along with photos) to a central project website (hosted using Googles AppEngine) from suitable mobile phones...

Stephens County, GA agreed to continue its quest for GIS after a three year contact expired. Commissioners signed a $10K contact with GIS1. Not much, is it? “We have got to take baby steps towards GIS,” [Stephens County Administrator Phyllis] Ayers said. - The Independent Mail Mitch...

Update 1/9/13: here's  a link to the contract. I had to ask WCSA to help me find it. Thank you! --- original post 1/3/13 ---- The Western States Contracting Alliance (WSCA) and the National Association of State Procurement Officials, working in collaboration with the states of Colorado,...

Researchers from the social networks IT security group at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, in Isreal, home of Waze, can help prevent traffic accidents. They studied a month's worth of data from the four million users of the app in that country. The used Google Earth to analyze the data and...

Rockland County, New York, hit hard by Hurricane Sandy, used a new GIS app to manage response. No, that's not big news. What I find valuable is this: The county took proactive steps to improve emergency preparedness last year in the wake of Hurricane Irene and the late October blizzard....

Until Wednesday only the Chinese government and military had access to the interface to use the signal from the Beidou constellation. Then the interface was made public. To be technical: an official version of the complete interface control document [pdf] (ICD) for the nation’s BeiDou...

Many folks know about the free shuttles for those workers who want to live in San Francisco while working at places like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, eBay and Apple out in the suburbs. . It's another perk. I recently spoke to a GISer who was very impressed by Google's transport system. The details of...