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- Australia.gov launches Government Service Locator
- The government service locator is a new feature on the Australian Government's portal - australia.gov.au - and is currently in trial status.
Added: 13 March 2009
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- Delivering water with more accurate maps
- North East Water uses AutoCAD Map 3D software and online maps to drive enhanced productivity and asset management. North East Water is a regional water corporation that delivers water and wastewater service to 38 communities in North East Victoria, Australia, one of the fastest growing rural regions in Victoria. Serving an estimated 113,000 people in an area of over 21,000 square kilometers, North East Water operates an extensive network of water and wastewater infrastructure assets.
Added: 2 September 2011
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- Making maps and Google maps accessible - Accessibility Toolkit - Version 3 - 2009
- Online maps are inaccessible to vision impaired people so a textual alternative (long description) must always be provided. It is also important to include accessibility features within the map so it is accessible to people with other disabilities e.g. by making the map non-reliant on JavaScript and keyboard accessible.
Added: 16 July 2010
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- New South Wales - Realtime Live Traffic Reports using Google Maps
- Provided by the NSW Government's RTA, Live Traffic NSW has a number of features to help make it easier to avoid traffic incidents and to plan trips.
Added: 13 September 2010
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- School performance - exam results in England using raw data and map overlays
- The Guardian newspaper has published England's General Certificate of Secondary Education - GCSE results in your area - and your school - as a spreadsheet
Added: 1 June 2010
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- Swooping Magpie Map - Victoria
- The Victorian Government's Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) has produced a Magpie Swoop Map using Google maps. It is updated daily with updates from 'magpie victims'.
Added: 20 August 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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- Childhood obesity in England: find out how your area compares
- Over a third of children aged 11 are considered to be overweight or obese. What are the figures for your area? Posted by Neha-Tamara Patel and Tom Farmery. Guardian Datablog, Monday 19 December 2011. "... The following interactive map shows the overweight and obese data for England from 2006 to 2011..."
Added: 20 December 2011;
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- Victorian Road closures and Traffic Alerts
- "VicRoads is responsible for providing road and traffic information to the community. On this is website you will find information about unplanned (emergency) road closures and traffic alerts. It is Victoria's official source of information about roads and traffic during incidents and emergencies that may impact road users..."
Added: 7 December 2011;
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- The truth about reoffending - interactive crime map
- Provided by the UK Ministry of Justice, this interactive crime map which shows over a 12 month period, the proven reoffending for all adult offenders who were released from custody, or who received a non-custodial conviction at court, a caution, a reprimand, a warning, or who tested positive for opiates or cocaine.
Added: 22 November 2011;
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- Interior Launches New Crowdsourcing Map Portal
- By Joseph Marks. NextGov, 10 November 2011. "The Interior Department launched a new Web tool Thursday that pulls together a slew of interactive, government-produced maps that users can mash together and lay their own data on top of. The "geospatial platform," which Interior said is a prototype, also includes some maps from state, local and tribal governments..."
Added: 14 November 2011;
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- Public sector plans to woo users with digital maps
- Posted by John Lamb. Public Technology, 8 November 2011. "Public sector organisations plan to make greater use of mapping technology next year as many say geographic data has increased public satisfaction with their services..."
Added: 10 November 2011;
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- New Brunswick Interactive map: Oil and Natural Gas Map
- The map viewer accesses maps that identify areas under lease agreements or oil and natural licences. You can click on areas of interest and information such as company name and type of agreement. If a well site is selected, information such as well name, company name and total depth will be displayed. Users can also use the ONG search tool to search by company name or type of tenure agreement.
Added: 10 November 2011;
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- New Brunswick Oil and natural gas map viewer now online
- Government of New Brunswick, Natural Gas Group, News Release, 8 November 2011. "Fredericton (CNB) – New Brunswickers may now go online to see where oil and gas exploration is taking place. The Oil and Natural Gas map viewer, an extension of the Service New Brunswick GeoNB map viewer, is now live on the provincial government's website..."
Added: 10 November 2011;
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- Google Maps API Family
- Google. "The Google Maps APIs give developers several ways of embedding Google Maps into web pages, and allows for either simple use or extensive customization. There are now several API offerings: - Google Maps Javascript API - Google Maps API for Flash - Google Static Maps API Depending on your needs, you may find yourself using one or a combination of these APIs..."
Added: 3 November 2011;
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- Google Maps API to Charge for High-Volume Usage
- by Rob D. Young. Search Engine Watch, November 2, 2011. "Any site or app using the Google Maps API (such as through embedded maps) may be charged for usage, should their visitor volume be high enough. Google will charge $4 for every 1,000 visitors past 25,000, starting January 1, 2012..."
Added: 3 November 2011;
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- Police launch crime map 2.0
- Website, which has had 430m-plus hits since February, now includes wider range of crime and performance of local forces, by Alan Travis. guardian.co.uk, Friday 28 October 2011. "The police's popular crime map website, which has attracted more than 430m hits since it was launched in February, is being expanded to allow the public to compare the performance of their local force with others. A search by postcode or address will also reveal street-level information about a much wider range of crime and antisocial behaviour including public disorder, shoplifting, criminal damage, arson and drug offences..."
Added: 2 November 2011;
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- Web 2.0 Summit - the Web 2.0 Map
- The 2011 edition of the Web 2.0 Map. This map showcases the incumbents and upstarts in our network economy, gathered around various territories that represent the Web 2.0's Points of Control. The 2011 version provides 'The Data Layer'. For the top companies in the industry, they have built 'cities of data' which shows the relative strengths of each company in eight key segments.
Added: 28 September 2011;
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- ZoLa - Zoning and Land Use
- New York City. "ZoLa (the Zoning and Land Use Application) is the New York City Department of City Planning's (DCP) web-based Geographic Information Systems (GIS) application that provides the public with up-to-date zoning and related information for New York City. ZoLa is a collaboration between the departments of City Planning and Information Technology and Telecommunications..."
Added: 15 September 2011;
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- USGS puts historical maps online
- By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, September 13, 2011. "The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is nearly halfway through its release of more than 250,000 historical topographic maps in high-resolution electronic format, some of which are more than 100 years old..."
Added: 15 September 2011;
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- Rain or shine, see the weather in Google Maps
- Posted by Jonah Jones, User Experience Designer. The Official Google Blog, 18 August 2011. "Whether you're organizing a trip overseas or a picnic at a local park, knowing the weather forecast is a crucial part of the planning process. Today, we're adding a weather layer on Google Maps that displays current temps and conditions around the globe, and will hopefully make travel and activity planning easier..."
Added: 19 August 2011;
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- Agriculture pulls all GIS maps into a single portal
- By Joseph Marks. NextGov, 17 August 2011. "A new Web portal being put together by the Agriculture Department aims to reduce duplication in the agency's mapping work and make high-quality maps more accessible to the public. More than half the department's 29 divisions are involved in geospatial work, Geospatial Information Officer Stephen Lowe said, either mashing satellite and aerial imagery with survey data or on-the-ground research about crop yields, ground chemicals or farm subsidies, or using other divisions' maps in their own research and programs..."
Added: 18 August 2011;
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This category last updated: 7 December 2011
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