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Serving Public Health Through Open Health Mapping Services
In this, the fourth GovFuture webinar presented by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Directions Media, we look at how improved sharing of geospatial information plays an important role in improving public health.
Our featured presenter is Eddie Oldfield, BA, Director, NB Climate...More
Learn About TomTom Geospatial for Oracle: Use Cases and Experiences
Learn about TomTom Geospatial for Oracle during this webinar, which will feature several case studies that show how TomTom’s data and Oracle’s spatial solutions work together to solve a variety of business challenges. Oracle will describe where the TomTom data fits in to a variety of Oracle...More
Today’s Geospatial Job Market
Do you wonder if you are optimally positioned in your career? This webinar is designed for GIS professionals, and those looking at entering the field, who have career-related questions. During this webinar, we will cover:
- The overall size of the job market for geospatial professionals ...More
Extend the Reach of GIS with Esri Location Analytics
Learn how Esri’s Location Analytics initiative, launching this month, truly ties business intelligence and GIS together, with examples from business platforms such as IBM and Microsoft.
Location Analytics is adding mapping visualization and geographic intelligence to important business...More
Honolulu in 3D - How to Create Smart 3D City Models with Existing 2D Data Using Esri CityEngine
Honolulu has the highest level of traffic congestion in the United States. The city’s GIS department transformed its 2D GIS data into a smart 3D city model in order to analyze a proposed rail project. Additionally, it created different Transit Oriented Development (TOD) scenarios and...More
Google’s Geospatial Solutions: Case Studies in Government and Non-profits
Join this webinar for a broad overview of Google’s geospatial solutions and how they help organizations operate more efficiently with geospatial data. The webinar will demonstrate how to share and visualize geospatial data more effectively throughout government agencies at all levels.
...MoreCase Study: VDOT and TomTom’s Historical Traffic Data
Join Chad Tucker, short range planning manager with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), and Michael Dannehy, pre-sales consultant at TomTom, in a discussion on leveraging historic traffic data to improve highway safety and operations.
Directions OnPoint - Retail Location Intelligence: Predicting and positioning with location analytics
Join Directions Magazine's Editor in chief, Joe Francica, and executives from Galigeo for a discussion about the applications of location intelligence in retailing. Galigeo is a leading provider of location intelligence solutions and the panelists will discuss some of the issues and...More
Getting and Keeping Your GISP - Your Questions Answered
Do you have questions about how to get your GISP? Do you have your GISP and want to know how to renew? Would you like more information on how the GISP can help you in this job market? Wondering what professional standards of practice are supported by GISCI? This webinar will answer those...More
Retail Leader VF Corporation Vaults Ahead With Spatial Analytics
Join Pat Garvey, of retail clothing category leader VF Corporation, and Paul Ross, from the leader in strategic analytics, Alteryx, for a discussion of what it takes to revolutionize a retail business model using deep customer data and spatial analytics.
VF Corp. is improving in-store...More
Webinar: What’s So Important About Conflation? The Business Case for Utilities
Spatial inaccuracies in your data can severely limit how and when GIS applications can be used across the enterprise, thereby diminishing the value of this technology and limiting its effectiveness.
Solving critical data management issues in a cost effective way is crucial for...More
Recorded Webinar: Reverse Geocoding and Social Network Apps - Businesses Scramble to Implement LBS-oriented Solutions
This webinar will address the importance of geocoding as well as how reverse geocoding is becoming a must-have for social media and LBS organizations. Social media organizations are capitalizing on location, using reverse geocoding, through advertising-based programs and services.
...MoreArcGIS Online: The Mapping Platform for Your Organization
Providing access to critical information to everyone in your organization, while staying in control of your data, improves organizational efficiency and creates new opportunities. ArcGIS Online, Esri’s cloud-based mapping and collaboration platform, gives organizations all the tools they...More
Recorded Webinar: Open Sensor Webs for Better Living in Cities and Regions
Previous OGC GovFuture webinars, produced in cooperation with Directions Magazine, provided an overview of OGC standards for Spatial Data Infrastructures and also looked at the Dutch national program for 3D urban modeling and analysis based on the OGC CityGML Encoding Standard. Our June...More
Recorded Webinar: Remote Sensing: It’s Not Just for the Remote Sensing Specialist Anymore
Have you noticed?? The Geospatial Revolution is closely tied to new capabilities of earth observing sensors, as well as greater access to their data.
The collection of remotely sensed data from a variety of platforms, including aircraft, commercial satellites, ground-based vehicles,...More
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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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