State and Local Government

On December 6th [21012] the [Wisconsin] State Cartographer's Office hosted an online Webinar featuring guest speaker Michael Terner from Applied Geographics (Boston, MA). The goal of Michael's talk was to de-mystify some common cloud computing concepts, and describe his own experiences in migrating computing resources to the Amazon cloud.

Watch as reports related to the storm come into SeeClickFix for dissemination to authorities, via @timoreilly

Conference chairman and Directions Magazine editor in chief Joe Francica provides and overview of the upcoming GEO Huntsville Conference. He's interviewed by WHNT's Carrie Marchese during a recent news broadcast.

King County's Greg Babinski speaks about the county's GIS ROI Study. More on that study at http://www.directionsmag.com/pressreleases/king-county-gis-delivers-significant-return-on-investment/243767.

King County's Greg Babinski speaks about the county's GIS ROI Study. More on that study at http://www.directionsmag.com/pressreleases/king-county-gis-delivers-significant-return-on-investment/243767.

After nine bank robberies over the past few months, FBI officials say the Bearded Bandit [Providence, RI] is finally behind bars -- and local law enforcement may have had a little help from a Rhode Island College student, recognizing the patterns.

Idaho GIS specialists are going trough 600-800 feet of paper a day creating fire maps for the public and firefighters.

The state of Alabama knows football – and if you really know football, you know as many games are won on the recruiting trail as the gridiron. Business works the same way. Directions Magazine Editor-in-Chief Joe Francica explains, “With the economic climate the way it is now, what we’re doing is we’re trying to essentially ring the bell about Huntsville. there are already jobs here. And we want to attract more jobs.”

It started with a clogged storm drain in New Haven, CT in March of 2008. Since that first reported issue on SeeClickFix citizens across the US have been engaging in their communities to try and resolve nearly 200,000 issues.