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[Spatial Sustain] The cartographic team has recently completed the conversion of their Great Parks South Bicycle map to a GIS illustration, with added detail, shaded relief and a more accurate scale and scale bar.

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[Outdoor Industry Association] Outdoor Industry Association :: Media || Industry News ...: Adventure Cycling Association — the largest membership cycling organization in North America — today announced that its world-renowned cycling maps will now be produced using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology. Kevin McManigal, Adventure Cycling’s GIS specialist, and cartographer Casey Greene recently completed the conversion of one map section of the Association’s Great Parks South Bicycle Route from a strictly illustration software-based format to a GIS and illustration software-based map.

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[Techdirt] If The Map Is Wrong, You Have Nobody To Blame But Yourself | Techdirt: It is rather amusing but I wanted to inform them of the mistake before some cyclist or pedestrians get smeared when my family visits from out of town. They don't have any means to convey this information.

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[James Fee GIS Blog] James Fee GIS Blog » Blog Archive » Open Source on the beach at ...: to maintain the PostgreSQL and Linux servers rather than having their highly paid GIS analysts run the show. Folks that had ArcView that still want a desktop GIS product got QGIS for their very basic GIS needs and those who didn’t even know they had ArcView were directed to their companies web based GIS system built using open source tools.

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