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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of examples showing the use of geographic information systems - GIS - and geospatial data in the provision of egovernment services.
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- ESRI and GIS
- Article and video about ESRI and their work in GIS
Added: 9 July 2009
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- Geographic Information Systems - Australia
- Articles and resources about trends and issues in Geographic Information Systems in Australia.
Added: 7 December 2005
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- Geographic Information Systems - Canada
- Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to geographic information systems in Canada.
Added: 13 December 2005
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- Geographic Information Systems - Examples of e-Government Initiatives
- Resources about the use of geographic information systems (GIS) in the provision of egovernment services.
Added: 1 December 2005
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- Jack Dangermond - GeoEnabling Gov 2.0
- Paper presented by Jack Dangermond from ESRI at the Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington DC on Thursday 27 May 2010.
Added: 28 May 2010
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- Positioning Regional Victoria project wins Geospatial Category - 2011 eGovernment Awards
- The Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria has won the Geospatial Category for their Positioning Regional Victoria project in the 2011 Excellence in eGovernment Awards. The awards were held in Sydney on June 1, 2011.
Added: 2 June 2011
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- Regional Broadband Investment to Boost Environment
- The Victorian Government has launched a three-year Broadband Innovation Fund (BIF) Spatial Imaging Project will vastly enhance the state's ability to manage environmental issues such as water quality and land degradation.
Added: 2 October 2007
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- Social Media in Local Government and the GIS user
- Presentation at MISA BC conference, Sidney BC, September 20-23, 2011, by Glenn Letham @gletham discussing the use of social media by official local government agencies, with emphasis on the GIS department and Geo user. A look at social media policies, tools, uses, and the impact of social media on mobile technology, opengov, local government, and citizen engagement.
Added: 14 November 2011
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- Victoria - Interactive Traffic Fatalities Using Google Maps
- The Victoria Police Traffic and Transit Safety Department (TTSD) has created an interactive map pinpointing the location of road fatalities across the state this year.
Added: 17 October 2008
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- VisualPlace - Tell us what you think!
- Please complete our survey on the VisualPlace six month proof of concept which tests innovative ways of capturing, exploring and visualising government information and services through maps.
Added: 16 June 2010
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- VisualPlace - Visualising Victorian Government Data Sets using GIS
- VisualPlace is a six month proof of concept trial provided by the Victorian Government to test innovative ways of capturing, exploring and visualizing government information and services through maps.
Added: 1 February 2010
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- Mobile GIS Tools Ease Fire Response
- By Noelle Knell. Government Technology, May 3, 2012. "City officials in Hoover, Ala., embarked upon a strategic implementation plan in 2008 to implement GIS across the city. In a recent interview with Government Technology, finance officials explained that while GIS was in use in many city service areas, they lacked a unified solution that put the same geographic data in the hands of all city employees. Hoover, a suburb of Birmingham, lies along the Appalachian Mountains and has a population in excess of 80,000. Complicating mapping efforts is the fact that Hoover straddles two separate Alabama counties — Jefferson and Shelby, with inconsistent mapping data..."
Added: 7 May 2012;
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- Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA) for England and Wales
- Ordnance Survey. "What does the PSMA provide? - A new 10 year agreement for the Public Sector in England and Wales. - The PSMA provides access to core geographic datasets from Ordnance Survey - The PSMA datasets are free at the point of use for all eligible public sector bodies. - Providing common geographic framework for the Public Sector will enable sharing of information..."
Added: 18 April 2012;
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- Mapping and healthcare: can geographic data help service planning?
- How can health organisations use geographic datasets to tailor the services they offer to the needs and habits of the community, asks Tracey Caldwell, by Tracey Caldwell. Guardian Professional, Thursday 12 April 2012. "Health organisations are increasingly turning to mapping to visualise and plan service provision. More than two thirds of PCTs, all ambulance trusts and 69 hospital trusts in England and Wales have registered for the Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA), which widens access to Ordnance Survey (OS) digital mapping products..."
Added: 18 April 2012;
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- Enhanced Real-time Earthquake Information Now Online
- U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey Office of Communications and Publishing, Released: 17 April 2012. "New U.S. Geological Survey webpages featuring more robust, real-time earthquake information are now available. Whether the earthquake is minor or major, earthquake.usgs.gov visitors will see a unique, interactive earthquake map that regularly updates, can be individually tailored, and provides saved settings for future map visits. .. From the website, users can access Latest Earthquakes to zoom into and pan the world map to select different basemaps, as well as overlays such as plate boundaries, faults, and earthquake hazards. Information can be fine-tuned to display earthquakes on the map by time window, magnitude, depth, and maximum recorded intensity. A list below the map updates for the current map view and settings and is sortable by any data column. Users can also download earthquake lists into other map interfaces like GoogleEarth (KML format) and Excel (CSV)..."
Added: 18 April 2012;
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- Socrata Launches Mondara(TM) Bringing Online Maps to the Other 99%
- MSP News, April 3, 2012. "San Francisco, California, (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Where 2.0 Conference - Socrata today unveiled Mondara(TM), the first cloud service that enables mainstream web content developers - the Other 99% who are not GIS experts - to rapidly create an exciting new class of data-driven, interactive online maps. The new Mondara(TM) service democratizes access to valuable geospatial and location data in government, currently locked up in inaccessible, proprietary formats, by making online map creation as easy as adding a photo to Facebook(TM)..."
Added: 4 April 2012;
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- National Geospatial Platform still has a few mountains to climb
- By Rutrell Yasin. Government Computer News, February 29, 2012. "Agencies are looking forward to the shared services that would be part of a National Geospatial Platform, but they still have concerns, including data exchange and access issues in a multi-tenanted hosted environment and the long-term sustainability of such a platform, geospatial information officers from several agencies told an audience at a recent federal GIS conference..."
Added: 22 March 2012;
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- Government geoplatform to launch by October
- By Joseph Marks. NextGov, 29 February 2012. "... An early version of Geoplatform.gov is up now, housed inside a General Services Administration-owned computer cloud that hosts the government data set repository Data.gov. A final version should be available around October, said Johnston, who is a member of the executive steering committee of the Federal Geographic Data Committee and is leading a crossagency team that is developing the initial version of the geospatial platform..."
Added: 1 March 2012;
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- Public Alerts now on Google Maps
- Posted by Steve Hakusa, Public Alerts Engineer. Google Lat Long Blog, Wednesday, January 25, 2012. "Today marks the launch of a new Google Crisis Response project: Google Public Alerts, a platform designed to bring you relevant emergency alerts when and where you're searching for them. If a major weather event is headed for your area, you might go online to search for the information you need: What’s happening? Where and when will it strike? How severe will it be? What resources are available to help? The Google Crisis Response team works on providing critical emergency information during crises. Our goal is to surface emergency information through the online tools you use everyday, when that information is relevant and useful..."
Added: 15 February 2012;
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- Sharing of national geographic data programme hailed as major success
- Posted by Rachel Fielding. Public Technology, 10 February 2012. "As the 2000th member signs up to a groundbreaking geographic data sharing agreement, Ordnance Survey has revealed that public sector organisations have saved around £15m so far through use of the data..."
Added: 13 February 2012;
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- Adelaide Airport GIS takes flight
- Geographic Information System (GIS) used to prevent bird strikes, by Hamish Barwick, Computerworld, 16 December, 2011. "Air traffic controllers at Adelaide Airport are using a new system to track birds flying over the airport in an attempt to prevent them straying into the path of oncoming planes. The airport has partnered with location intelligence company, Esri Australia, to implement Geographic Information System (GIS) technology into its wildlife hazard management program..."
Added: 16 December 2011;
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- Oregon, Montana, Utah and Colorado Partner to Share GIS Data in the Cloud
- By Hilton Collins. Government Technology, December 1, 2011. "Oregon stores a vast amount of geospatial data, which will grow exponentially as the state finds new ways to use location-based information. Oregon CIO Dugan Petty hopes to cut the cost of housing GIS data by joining with three other states in a joint cloud-based storage initiative. The initiative is led by Montana, which released a request for information (RFI) in December 2010 asking vendors for input on how to best store GIS data from multiple states in the cloud. Along with Oregon, two other states — Utah and Colorado — have joined the effort, which has been dubbed the Multi-State GIS Cloud Services Assessment Team..."
Added: 5 December 2011;
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- Gloucestershire council uses GIS on the buses
- A local authority has harnessed geographical information systems to redesign services in face of sharp cuts in funding, by Tracey Caldwell. Guardian Professional, Wednesday 16 November 2011. "When county councils took over the administration of concessionary bus passes in April, Gloucestershire decided to redraw the entire bus service map. Using visual mapping software showing the impact of the various service options on the community it started from scratch and came up with a new set of services that went live on 14 November..."
Added: 17 November 2011;
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- Federal Geographic Data Committee Launches New Geospatial Website
- State-of-the-art platform has tools for the public to create maps, share information. US Department of the Interior Press Release, 9 November 2011. "WASHINGTON, D.C.—The federal government and its geospatial partners today unveiled www.geoplatform.gov, a prototype Geospatial Platform website providing an initial view of the future of user-friendly, integrated, federal data collections on common geographic maps. This prototype version of the Geospatial Platform combines map-based data and tools with the latest internet technologies to deliver geospatial information in a simple, understandable package. Users—including the public, federal agencies and their partners—can easily find federally-maintained geospatial data, services and applications, as well as access data from our partners across State, Tribal, Regional and local governments..."
Added: 14 November 2011;
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- Viewpoint: Why everyone should be excited about AddressBase
- Public Technology, 2 November 2011. "David Green, Business Development Director at supplier GB Group, on the impact for many stakeholders of the new unified mailing database out of ONS September saw the launch of AddressBase, a new address database that will bring a unified approach to communicating across both the public and private sectors and which has the potential to save both private companies, public sector organisations and tax payers billions of pounds. So while a new address database may not sound like the sexiest thing you’ve heard of lately, we are pretty excited about it, but then identity data is our business..."
Added: 10 November 2011;
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- AddressBase
- Ordnance Survey. "AddressBase™ contains Royal Mail PAF addresses (for England and Wales), both commercial and residential matched to the local authority Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN). You will be able to link additional information about a property to a single address and also place it on a map..."
Added: 10 November 2011;
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