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Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
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 - 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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- 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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- GIS Web Mapping Enables Self Service - and Savings
- Directions Magazine, Monday, October 29th 2012. "Summary: Local governments have been quite successful in capitalizing on the applications of geospatial technology to improve citizen services and recognize savings, and businesses across industries can benefit from following their lead. This article is a quick look at how web mapping is helping government improve communications and services. It's not so often that a more cost-effective means of delivering customer services also creates measurable improvements in customer satisfaction. However, continuing developments in GIS technology, and specifically in web mapping, provide both through smart, self-service solutions..."
Added: 30 October 2012;
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- Competitive advantage with free GIS tools
- Posted by Arek. All Things Spatial, Tuesday, September 11, 2012. "For years I have been advocating the advantage of matching the tools to the job, that is selecting those that are 'fit for the purpose'. Nothing more and nothing less, because it is either a waste of money or you end up with inadequate solution which will not deliver expected results. Logical, but not very common approach in corporate life… Why would you spend thousands on something that you can use for free to get the job done? Many apply this principle in their private lives but do not extend it to their business activities. There is always more than one way to skin the cat, and very often applying your 'old toolbox' to new problems will simply not work (eg. big data in GIS!). In a competitive world, or where resources to accomplish the task are scarce, only the smart ones, who are able to think outside the square, will get the job done and will advance..."
Added: 13 September 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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- 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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- 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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- Visualization deconstructed: Why animated geospatial data works
- Inside animated geo visualizations, by Andy Kirk. O'Reilly Radar, 19 October 2011. "In this, my first Visualization Deconstructed post, I'm expanding the scope to examine one of the most popular contemporary visualization techniques: animation of geospatial data over time..."
Added: 20 October 2011;
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- UN to establish committee on global geospatial information
- By Clarice Africa. FutureGov, 2 August 2011. "The United Nations Economic and Social Council has voted to establish a committee of experts on global geospatial information management to better coordinate international dialogues on spatial data infrastructures and enhance international cooperation on the said matter between member states..."
Added: 4 August 2011;
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- GIS: City IT Leaders Discuss Geospatial Data's Growing Role
- By Colin Wood. Government Technology, June 28, 2011. "For decades, GIS has been an indispensable tool in many state and local government agencies, and now that it's being more widely adopted, governments are finding new, unexpected uses. Even with reduced budgets, leaders are discovering that an investment in GIS is not just a means to reach short-term project goals and reap budgetary benefits, it also can be a stepping stone toward the future of public-sector technology infrastructure..."
Added: 30 June 2011;
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- New Heat Map Creator app makes heat maps easy
- Bing Maps Blogger, 15 June 2011. This is a guest post by Steve Milroy, CEO of OnTerra Systems. "Bing Maps offers the capability to visualize data in various manners. Viewers are, of course, always looking for ways to better understand their data. Showing data on a map alone—customer locations for monthly sales, for example—provides quick and easy insights. However, it doesn't allow you to see trends, like volume of sales. Advanced map-based visualizations like thematic and heat maps allow for greater extrapolation of such data. The focus of this blog is on heat maps, specifically a new heat map app that we recently released..."
Added: 16 June 2011;
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- Google Maps now tracks public transportation
- While Google's software can't make the trains run on time, it can now tell you just how late they'll be, By Brad Reed - Framingham. Computerworld, Thursday, 9 June, 2011. "While Google's software can't make the trains run on time, it can now tell you just how late they'll be. That's because Google has partnered with four U.S. cities and two European cities to add a new live transit feature to Google Maps that can tell you whether your train or bus is running late..."
Added: 9 June 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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- 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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- United Nations Initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management
- "There is general agreement by member states of an urgent need for an inter-governmental consultative mechanism that can play a leadership role in setting the agenda for the development of global geospatial information and to promote its use to address key global challenges; to liaise and coordinate among Member States, and between Member States and international organizations..."
Added: 24 February 2011;
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- UN to establish entity on Global Geospatial Information Management
- By Clarice Africa. FutureGov, 14 February 2011. "The United Nations is to bring together the world's national mapping agencies and other geospatial organisations to develop a streamlined and integrated framework that would support global geospatial information management..."
Added: 24 February 2011;
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This category last updated: 30 October 2012
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