State and Local Government

Another motion was made to increase the GIS director’s salary by $1,500. That vote passed 3-1 with all three commissioners voting in favor and Scotto voting against. There were several motions before that one, including the exact same one as I read it, but the GIS director of Clearfiled...

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...

Just before Christmas the Lower Hudson News published a map of gun permit holders in two New York counties. The map included names and addresses of permit holders and was published in response to the shootings in Newtown, CT the week before. Most local readers and even those who viewed the map from...

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...

How do you manage your GIS data and all the data within your asset management system?  The Asset IT department of the Napier City Council in New Zealand has recently completed phase one of a project which will allow it to manage the data within the asset management system directly from the GIS...

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,...

Part 1 of this article described the economic situation in Azerbaijan that allowed this fast growing country to invest in its infrastructure. In Part 2, this article explores the software solutions used to develop and maintain Azersu’s geographic information system (GIS) for water management....