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- Interactive mapping and open data illustrate excess federal property
- WhiteHouse.gov puts data to use in its new federal property map, by Alex Howard. O'Reilly Radar, 5 May 2011. "... Yesterday, the White House showed how open data can be visualized in a massive new interactive feature posted at WhiteHouse.gov. The map was published as the White House proposed legislation to create an independent commission to identify civilian properties that can be sold, closed or destroyed..."
Added: 10 May 2011;
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- Maps aren't easy
- Pete Warden on digital map creation and data journalism tools, by Jenn Webb. O'Reilly Radar, 12 April 2011. "There is an art to data journalism, and in many cases that art requires an involved and arduous process. In a recent interview, Simon Rogers, editor of the Guardian's Datablog and Datastore, discussed many of the issues his team faced when they assembled databases and reports from the WikiLeaks releases. More recently, journalists have been building scads of interactive maps to illustrate news from the disaster in Japan and the political situation in Libya. A recent story at Poynter looking at the importance of such maps also briefly noted their return on investment:..."
Added: 13 April 2011;
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- Police crime maps: the Doug McCune remix
- The police crime maps have been controversial. But what happened when we asked one of the world's top data visualisers to take a look? The Guardian, 15 February 2011. "... Last year, Doug McCune's depiction of San Francisco crime levels as elevation won many fans in the visualisation community. We'd been looking for a chance to collaborate for a while. As soon as we received word of the police making their underlying data available, we got in touch and asked if he'd like to help us build a tool to enable folks to compare crime levels between two locations at once. He came back with the suggestion that we make use of the software he develops in his day job - a product that enables the exploration of large quantities of geo-data in a variety of ways..."
Added: 21 March 2011;
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- Department of Transport Maps - TransMaps
- Provided by the Victorian Government's Department of Transport. TransMaps utilises existing whole of Government data service agreements and enables the Department to access current spatial datasets such as planning, property, transport, environmental, aerial photography, satellite imagery and ABS information. TransMaps is a web based mapping application and can be accessed from any computer connected to the internet using web browser. Anyone can access TransMaps as a Guest User with restricted access to data layers and functions. A Guest User can access: a) A limited number of layers. b) Predefined maps – themed layers that Department of Transport Administrator has selected.
Added: 17 March 2011;
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- Police.UK
- "Welcome to your local crime and policing website for England and Wales. This website provides you with helpful information about crime and policing in your area. Enter your postcode, town, village or street into the search box below, and get instant access to street-level crime maps and data, as well as details of your local policing team and beat meetings..."
Added: 9 March 2011;
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- Gov 2.0 guide to open source custom map design using TileMill
- by Michael Walsh. GovFresh, February 24, 2011. "This week, Development Seed announced the release of a full-featured map design studio that enables web developers to rapidly generate gorgeous custom maps. Based upon open source technologies and funded in part by a generous grant from The Knight Foundation, TileMill dramatically increases the accessibility of custom map generation for enterprise users, including the government. By decreasing the sunk costs required to generate custom maps and at the same time increasing the performance of these solutions, TileMill also paves the way for the next generation of geospatial products capable of meeting the open data imperative..."
Added: 7 March 2011;
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- New York City launches 311 online service request map
- by Alex Howard. Gov20.GovFresh, February 16, 2011. "... This 311 online service request map is a good start, with layers, custom searches and a clean design. Querying for those layers is a bit slow but returns relevant results for bike parking or continuing education, although many of the other layers appear to be grayed out and 'coming soon'..."
Added: 17 February 2011;
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- Davidson County Tennessee Crime Map
- "... all available Davidson County arrest data for the past seven days. The address is the listed address for the defendant - not necessarily where the alleged crime occurred..."
Added: 17 February 2011;
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- Criminal Court Clerk Website - View & Map Arrest Data
- Press Release from The Criminal Court Clerk of Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County, April 13, 2010. "David Torrence, the Davidson County Criminal Court Clerk, is pleased to announce a new mapping link to the office website. Crime Mapping is a new way for the public to access important arrest and court related information via this user-friendly website (Davidson County Criminal Court Clerk). Click "View and Map Arrest Data" and a satellite map will indicate the address of all persons arrested within the last seven days (the user may narrow the search by zip code). The user will also be able to find court date information regarding the arrest as well as the criminal history of the person arrested..."
Added: 17 February 2011;
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- IssueMap
- "Got Data? Let us map it for you. IssueMap joins your data to boundaries so that you can easily create thematic maps and share them online..."
Added: 17 February 2011;
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- Announcing IssueMap: Copy, paste, map
- by Michael Byrne - Geographic Information Officer. Reboot - the Official blog of the Federal Communications Commission, February 7, 2011. "Everyone has seen a good spreadsheet go bad. Students, lawyers, public servants, accountants -- if you’ve ever spent time with a complicated dataset, you’ve had a spreadsheet turn against you... I’m extremely proud today to announce the official launch of IssueMap, the result of a partnership between the FCC and FortiusOne. IssueMap is a long time coming. As a board member with the National States Geographic Information Council, some colleagues and I identified the need for a product that would produce maps from complicated data steps in just three steps: copy, paste, map. IssueMap is that product..."
Added: 17 February 2011;
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- Online street maps reveal UK crime levels
- Posted by Jon Wilcox. Public Technology, 1 February 2011. "The Cabinet Office has today launched a new interactive website allowing citizens to transparent access to information on crime and anti-social behaviour in their area..."
Added: 10 February 2011;
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- Social data and geospatial mapping join the crisis response toolset
- A new web app applies trend analysis to structured social media, by Alex Howard. O'Reilly Radar, 27 January 2011. "A new online application from geospatial mapping giant ESRI applies trend analysis to help responders to Australia's recent floods create relevance and context from social media reporting. .."
Added: 7 February 2011;
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- Google Map of Road Fatalities
- Posted by Keir Clarke. Google Maps Mania, Friday, December 10, 2010. "Google Maps built with Fusion Tables can support huge amounts of data and can also now support spatial queries. This Google Map of British Road Casualties is an excellent example of a map using Fusion Tables to great effect..."
Added: 14 December 2010;
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- PolicyMap
- "PolicyMap is a fully web-based Geographic Information System. It's fast, efficient and captures data in visually powerful ways through custom demographic maps, tables, reports and our analysis tool, Analytics. You can even use our GIS mapping services to easily incorporate your own data and leverage it against the thousands of indicators already available in PolicyMap. Available data includes demographics, home sale statistics, health data, mortgage trends, school performance scores and labor data like unemployment, crime statistics and city crime rates..."
Added: 8 December 2010;
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This category last updated: 7 December 2011
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