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[ESRI News Feed] GIS Best Practices: Essays on Geography and GIS: ones will be published in the American Geographical Society's publication Ubique. Restoring geography is in your best interest as a citizen of the world and especially as a GIS.

[Off the Map - Official Blog of FortiusOne] Geophysics vs. Geography: Divergent Viewpoints on the GeoWeb | Off ...: Google makes for a nice target because of the massive popularity of what they do, but I see few issues that are exclusive to them that were already not resident on the Web in general or the established GIS industry. My personal opinion is that too much emphasis has been placed on critical analysis of technology and not enough on how it can be used to further the goals of geography as a discipline to better inform the public and educate them.

[ESRI News Feed] City Hall and GIS | Articles | FutureGov - Solutions for ...: Mackay Regional Council’s Geraghty notes that previously information had been inaccessible to residents: “Access to planning information such as property boundaries, its proximity to local schools and so on, was confined to a visit to council, which often resulted in a fee being charged,” he admits. However following implementation of a

[SLIS News Feed] Hamid Ekbia - Presentations in California: Methodologically, they originate in the cartographical view of change as the difference between snapshots (as captured in the notion of "layer" in current GIS), rather than the continual accrual of change from state to state. Technically, they are the consequence of the utilization of tools and technologies that deal with static collections of data manipulated according to the rules and constraints of geometric, topological, or relational data models.

[ESRI News Feed] GIS Technology and Applications for the Fire Service: manipulate, analyze, and display spatial data. GIS technology can create cost-effective. and accurate solutions in an expanding range of applications. GIS displays geographic. data as map layers. Some GIS map layers fire departments use ...

[Digging Digitally] Digging Digitally » GIS, GPS, Geo-Location: Perhaps we can look at ways of registering GIS datasets (ideally stored in GML) in online directories with some simple metadata (”information about information”). A dataset’s general location (say Lat / Lon point coordinates), some information about authorship, keywords, etc.

[Jennifer Marohasy] Jennifer Marohasy: Is Ecology, Geography Under Another Name?: Multispectral, ranging and imaging tools will help future ecologists map species and 3D form in space and time. But is this ecology - of course not - it's in the methods section.

[Extranet Evolution] Extranet Evolution: BuildingSMART conference, part 2: Mark Bew brought matters to a conclusion, talking about the journey up a slippery slope to the "nirvana" of interoperable BIM (iBIM), and how BuildingSMART might help with some tools to help organisations make that journey. He displayed a vision and mission for BuildingSMART and invited feedback.

[Injury Prevention recent issues] Geomatics in injury prevention: the science, the potential and the ...: Essentially, GIS refers to "an organized collection of computer hardware, software, geographically organised data and personnel designed to efficiently capture, store, update, manipulate, analyse and display all forms of geographically .

[John Barnes' Amazon Blog] John Barnes' Amazon Blog: The Scott Thomas affair at New Republic ...: (The difference between a statistical semiotician and a regular semiotician is roughly the difference between an epidemologist or social psychologist and a doctor or counselor; there are also FrancoGerman types who call themselves semiologists, who are more like Freudian shrinkoanalysts or Tarot card readers, who helped to make sure semiotic studies would be isolated within the academy, irrelevant to life as lived, and unknown to the lay public except for occasional jokes, and I fart in their general direction).

[Coding Horror] Coding Horror: Learning, or, Learning How To Learn: Wireless RFID tracking of a manufacturing process utilizing fingerprint scanners, PDA’s, GPS, GIS, with all the data being captured by SAP.

[Stars and Stripes] Letters to the editor for Thursday, November 6, 2008 | Stars and ...: (EDITOR’S NOTE: These are the letters that appeared in each edition of Stripes on this publication date.)

[Out to Pasture] Out to Pasture » Blog Archive » A different publishing perspective ...: Are they the Kurds in the North that won't let American GIs pay for anything? There is something very comforting when you hear Microsoft basically say that they are counting on Sony to release a 9 PS3 sku.

[Vadimus Post] How Obama Did It: The OGG was registering voters methodically and consistently all throughout the summer and on into September. Using sophisticated data tracking tools such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems, used by Bill Gates’ foundation to target areas of greatest need for food and vaccinations) Indiana, a traditional Republican red state had 4 million registered voters in the ’04 election.

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