State and Local Government

Maps published on the Sunday before Christmas was titled "Where are the gun permits in your neighborhood?" The Journal News, a New York newspaper published a Google map locating and providing names and addresses of pistol or revolver permits in Westchester and Rockland counties. The data came...

The State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Office of Planning have worked collaboratively with the City and County of Honolulu and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Fisheries to review and update information defining Oahu’s public access [to...

The team that manages Data.gov is well on its way to making the government data repository open source using a new back-end called the Open Government Platform, officials said during a Web discussion Wednesday. I can't say I've heard of the platform, but Indian and US government folks built...

Another of those precautions was the city acting on [City Councilor Marty] Lorrey's motion to get the bridge included in GPS systems because some drivers have said the systems have not alerted them to take a different route. [Eric] Eby [the city's transportation engineer] has been working...

TwinCities.com/The Pioneer Press offers a series of maps titled Prescription opiates and heroin in Minnesota based off the ARCOS federal drug data. More interesting to readers of this blog will be the pain required to get the data out of PDF and into Excel. Then, there was the issue of access to...

The Pronounce Wisconsin map is on both the Misspronouncer.com website (simpler version) and on the State Cartographers website (more interactive, GIS geek verson). You mouse over a place and the map speaks its name. Under the covers is the Google Maps API and a list of open source...

I think this is a paradigm shift in GIS technology. I think ESRI and Amazon are the two big players in creating the shift In the end, it’ll allow GIS to be more ubiquitous. It won’t just be rich municipalities or the municipalities with large populations that can afford GIS. Len Bundra,...

Harare City Council is set to digitalise its operations through the Geographical Information System (GIS)... The early benefits to the Zimbabweian city are expected to include upping the number of people in the city who pay for the water they receive. The donor of the project also provided...

  The city has launched its brand new GIS application at redmond.gov/santa. Residents can use the app to see where Jolly Ol' Saint Nick will be on any given evening and even track his immediate location in real time. Now through Dec. 21, Santa will be traveling neighborhood to...

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...