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Home | Submit Press ReleaseURISA is pleased to announce the new members of its Vanguard Cabinet. The Vanguard Cabinet (VC) is a URISA initiative to engage young GIS practitioners, increase their numbers in the organization, and better understand the concerns facing these future leaders of the GIS community. The VC is an advisory board made up of URISA young professionals who represent the young membership...
The program, designed to promote sustainable urban planning and design, will be one of the first of its kind in the U.S. Philadelphia University is launching a new M.S. in Geodesign, an innovative program that utilizes a sophisticated design framework and advanced technology for professionals to use in planning and designing sustainable built and natural environments. The M.S. in...
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has selected Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC (SST-US) to investigate cost reduction and augmentation of the current GPS constellation through the application of the small satellite approach.
AFRL has contracted SST-US to identify and analyze how small satellites can improve aspects of GPS system performance such as accuracy, coverage, and...
NEW DELHI, January 15, 2013. FICCI and Geospatial Today released the first edition of ‘Empowering India through Geospatial Technologies: Select Stories’. The publication was released by Dr. T. Ramasami, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology and Dr. Shailesh Nayak, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences.
Dr. Ramasami said that the power of technology lies in making it...
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the OGC OWS (OGC Web Services) Context Conceptual Model and the associated ATOM Extension document candidate standards.
The OGC OWS Context Conceptual Model describes the use cases, requirements and conceptual data model of an OGC Web Services Context Document. A context document (OWS Context) defines a fully configured...
Esri has released ArcGIS for Aviation, a new solution to support users in the aeronautical information management, air navigation service provider, and airport markets. This solution enables users to create, manage, review, and share aviation data. ArcGIS for Aviation includes ArcGIS for Aviation: Charting and ArcGIS for Aviation: Airports. Together, these products provide a...
Updating the second book in the Esri Press GIS Tutorial series, GIS Tutorial 2: Spatial Analysis Workbook, this 10.1 edition focuses on building problem-solving and spatial analysis skills using the tools in ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop.
Step by step, the workbook guides users with intermediate GIS skills to master a number of analytical procedures including working with categories,...
St. Charles, IL – Sidwell is pleased to announce that Brian Baker has been appointed Photogrammetric Sales Manager. While Brian will continue to perform his current responsibilities with GIS sales in his territory, he will also be responsible for managing and developing new relationships with photogrammetry leadership and staff, while increasing Sidwell’s offerings and markets within...
Executive roundtable brings together finance and insurance executives to discuss importance of location in business on January 29, 2013
MARKHAM, ONTARIO-- DMTI Spatial Inc. (DMTI), Canada's leading provider of Location Intelligence solutions, today announced its next Strategic Insight Session on Location Economics will take place at Jamie Kennedy at the Gardiner Museum on January 29,...
Calling for nominations to honor outstanding accomplishments to the topographic mapping mission of the USGS
If you have ever used a topographic map to find your way around a remote part of the country, or if you've ever noticed how geographic names reflect the history of the land and the culture of its inhabitants, you’ll appreciate the pioneering work of Henry Gannett. Gannett, an...
Atlanta – Jan. 16, 2013 –NexTraq®, a leading GPS fleet tracking and fleet management company, spent 2012 focused on its commitment to customer service and providing industry-leading advances in the telematics industry. This focus and dedication resulted in multiple new partnerships and offerings, as well as doubling its employees and office space while increasing subscriber growth by...
The ways that Seattle commuters get to work and the length of those commutes are visualized in a new set of revealing maps created by John Nelson of data visualization company IDV Solutions.
Nelson’s infographics—posted today to his blog—show each of the city’s thousands of individual commuters as a color-coded dot, revealing patters in commute duration, public transit use, walking,...
th, 2013 – Timmons Group, a leader in enterprise geospatial products and services, has announced a webinar entitled “GIS Strategic Planning: Building a RoadMap for your GIS.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, January 31st, from 2pm to 3pm EST, and will be presented by Lowell Ballard, Director of Geospatial Solutions.
About Timmons Group
lowell.ballard@timmons.com or visit...
Journal News Removes Interactive Gun Permit Map
The Lower Hudson Journal News has been under fire for publishing a map of gun permit holders in two counties in New York State before Christma. (APB coverage 1, 2, podcast). On Friday January 18 the paper removed the interactive map. Why? Publisher Janet Hasson gave answers in a media statement and in a letter to readers.
In a statement in response to The Poynter Institute (a journalism school) she argued:
With the passage this week of the NYSAFE gun law, which allows permit holders to request their names and addresses be removed from the public record, we decided to remove the gun permit data from lohud.com at 5 pm today. While the new law does not require us to remove the data, we believe that doing so complies with its spirit. For the past four weeks, there has been vigorous debate over our publication of the permit data, which has been viewed nearly 1.2 million times by readers. One of our core missions as a newspaper is to empower our readers with as much information as possible on the critical issues they face, and guns have certainly become a top issue since the massacre in nearby Newtown, Conn. Sharing as much public information as possible provides our readers with the ability to contribute to the discussion, in any way they wish, on how to make their communities safer. We remain committed to our mission of providing the critical public service of championing free speech and open records.
In a letter to readers published on Friday she wrote:
So intense was the opposition to our publication of the names and addresses that legislation passed earlier this week in Albany included a provision allowing permit holders to request confidentiality and imposing a 120-day moratorium on the release of permit holder data.
She goes on to say that during the 27 days the map was online any one interested would have seen it and that the data would eventually be out of date. She also noted that the paper does not endorse the way the state chose to limit availability of the data.
The original map/article still includes a graphic - but it's a snapshot, a raster image, with no interactivity. Says Hasson in the letter to readers:
And we will keep a snapshot of our map — with all its red dots — on our website to remind the community that guns are a fact of life we should never forget.
I continue to applaud the paper for requesting the data via a Freedom on Informat request, mapping it, keeping the map up despite threats and criticism and now responding to state law. I think the paper did a service to the state, to citizens and to journalism.
- via reader Jim and Poynter
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