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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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- Static Maps API Developer's Guide
- Google, 2008. "Welcome to the developer documentation for the Google Static Maps API! The Google Static Maps API lets you embed a Google Maps image on your webpage without requiring JavaScript or any dynamic page loading. The Google Static Map service creates your map based on URL parameters sent through a standard HTTP request and returns the map as an image you can display on your web page!..."
Added: 22 February 2008;
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- Google Maps Without the Scripting
- Posted by Tom Manshreck, Maps API Team. Google Maps API Blog, 21 February 2008. "If you're a regular reader of this blog, you probably already use the Google Maps API and love it as much as we do! But you may find it not useful for certain cases: the Google Maps API requires JavaScript, can take a while to load over slow connections, and requires some overhead to maintain a dynamic website. The Google Static Maps API provides a simpler way to add maps to your website. Rather than use JavaScript, the Google Static Maps API creates map images on the fly via simple requests to the Static Maps service with HTTP requests. No JavaScript, no overhead. Just create a special URL as the src attribute within an "img" tag and let the Static Maps service create your image..."
Added: 22 February 2008;
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- Ordnance Survey's geographic address information to underpin Thames regeneration
- Public Technology, 13 February 2008. "Ordnance Survey's most detailed geographic address information, OS MasterMap Address Layer 2, is supporting sustainable development plans for a large part of the Thames Gateway..."
Added: 14 February 2008;
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- USDA wants to make geospatial data easier to share
- By Mary Mosquera. Federal Computer Week, February 13, 2008. "The Agriculture Department is seeking information about methods for delivering, disseminating and integrating large geospatial datasets for its Farm Service Agency and other users. USDA is interested in commercial software and/or online mapping interface services that could replace FSA's current systems..."
Added: 14 February 2008;
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- As Google Maps Grows, is Your Business Being Left Behind?
- By Jennifer Laycock. Search Engine Guide, February 5, 2008. "Matt McGee offers up a post over at Small Business SEM that makes it pretty clear Google Maps is on the way up in terms of usage..."
Added: 6 February 2008;
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- Ordnance Survey green-lights Web 2.0 mash-ups using its mapping data
- Public Technology, 1 February 2008. "Ordnance Survey is making its Web 2.0 platform, OS OpenSpace, available to developers everywhere following a successful closed launch in December 2007. OS OpenSpace is a free service that allows users to build mash-ups of Ordnance Survey mapping in scales ranging from the whole of Great Britain down to street level..."
Added: 4 February 2008;
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- Council recommends research agenda for National Map project
- By Florence Olsen. Federal Computer Week, January 22, 2008. "The National Research Council released a dozen recommendations today to help focus the research activities for a U.S. Geological Survey project known as the National Map..."
Added: 31 January 2008;
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- Interior advisory group to aid geospatial initiatives
- By Wade-Hahn Chan. Federal Computer Week, January 17, 2008. "The Interior Department has established a panel to assist an interagency group that is coordinating government efforts to collect, manage and share geospatial data..."
Added: 18 January 2008;
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- Ordnance Survey opens its GIS source code to web 2.0 applications
- Public Technology, 17 December 2007. "Web developers are this week previewing a free online platform to help them experiment with some of the world’s most advanced geographic information from Ordnance Survey. OS OpenSpace enables web-savvy users to build mash-ups with a range of Ordnance Survey data in line with government aims to make public sector information more accessible..."
Added: 20 December 2007;
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- Council uses heat map in green campaign
- Kablenet, 3 December 2007. "South Derbyshire DC has begun to use to a thermal map to pinpont the potential for energy savings. Created by BlueSky, the map was produced by a night time aerial survey using special heat seeking sensors. The council is using it to target specific properties with high heat loss, following up by providing advice on energy efficiency and remedial action..."
Added: 7 December 2007;
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- Google's candid camera snaps Australia
- by Asher Moses. The Age, November 23, 2007. "Take extra-special care of your appearance when walking around Australian capital city streets this summer, as one nose pick or bum scratch could be immortalised on Google Maps forever..."
Added: 26 November 2007;
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- Google lets users edit Google Maps locations, wiki-style
- Registered Google users in the US and Australia can move incorrect markers for their homes or businesses to the correct locations, By Heather Havenstein. Computerworld, 21 November 2007. "For those who have got lost, delayed or just plain frustrated on a trip due to a mistaken marker on Google Maps, the company has unveiled a potential solution. Google has announced that registered Google users in the US and Australia can move incorrect markers for their homes or businesses to the correct locations..."
Added: 21 November 2007;
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- E-Vote: Delaware Provides Polling Place Information Using Google Maps
- Government Technology, October 31, 2007. "The Delaware Commissioner of Elections and the Government Information Center (GIC), an agency of the Department of State, have recently launched a new Internet tool aimed at helping voters find their polling places. Using the popular interactive mapping interface Google Maps, voters can now see the location of their polling place and obtain directions to and from that location..."
Added: 1 November 2007;
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- Online mapmakers get down to earth
- by Stephen Hutcheon. The Age, October 30, 2007. "Using home-grown technology, a Chinese firm has upstaged the likes of Google and Microsoft with a mapping service featuring 360-degree street-level imaging of extraordinarily high resolution. The service, which is similar to features found on Google's and Microsoft's online mapping sites, presently covers eight Chinese cities - including the capital Beijing and Shanghai..."
Added: 30 October 2007;
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- NGA aims to get its maps in the fast lane
- By Patrick Marshall. Government Computer News, 22 October 2007. "The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is creating a new data distribution system that will allow users worldwide to receive and accurately print maps via a $1.7 million contract with Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems and Global Services for a demand-based geospatial intelligence (DBGI) pilot..."
Added: 23 October 2007;
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