The idea of modeling external influences gets to the root capabilities of geospatial modeling and visualization. There’s a degree of sleuthing involved to truly understand the processes and influences of complex systems — applying spatial analysis to a place to profile the players, their impacts on each other, and the long-term trends of change over time.

-- Matt Ball, editor, The Americas / Asia Pacific

1. CATO Institute - wide array of information on urban growth and transportation issues.
2. MSIA - the mapping sciences institute of Australia.
3. GS Soil - assessment and strategic development of INSPIRE compliant Geodata-Services for European Soil Data (GS Soil).
4. GDI - SN - a wealth of geospatial related material for Europe and the Saxony region of Germany.
5. Karstic Cultural Landscapes - architecture of a unique relsationship people-territory.

1. Shelter Associates -- An NGO in Pune, India that applies GIS to solve issues of the urban poor.
2. Spatial Ecology -- Facilitates innovative geospatial analysis to provide rigorous answers to environmental, ecological and conservation problems.
3. Association fo rthe Advancement of Sustainabilty in Higher Education
4. Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities -- Applying GIS to issues of civil rights, economic development, fair housing, environmental justice, predatory lending, and other justice-oriented causes.
5. Animaniacs Song About Countries - A YouTube video puts the names of countries to song.

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The OWL Project - An MIT Media Lab project that harnesses crowd-sourced data input to map sightings of owls.

Where Does Water Go - A map-based animation of stormwater runoff for Pierce County Public Works.

SSSI - surveying and spatial sciences institute of Australia.

Norsk Teknologi - body for Norwegian employers within the technical and technological sector, consisting of 1,550 member companies with 32,800 employees and a total revenue of 30 billion NOK

Land administration plays a unique role in solving sustainability issues. It involves an integrated approach that includes several common factors that can be applied around the world, even though their actual implementation can differ from country to country. Our relationship to the land includes both physical and cognitive factors and these connect to wider topics related to law, regulation and legislation. The authors of this book provide a wealth of information for understanding land administration systems and how future spatial data infrastructure may incorporate new processes leading toward sustainability.

When a domain is relatively new, the terminology is often imprecise, and many different words many be coined and used by different organizations and individuals with none of them realizing that they are talking about essentially the same thing. This is substantially true for the use of Digital City and SDI as applied to urban environments.

EVENTS AU 2009 Urges Model-Based Opportunity Autodesk University 2009 took place in Las Vegas, Nevada from Dec. 1-3. This year's event attracted roughly 6,000 people to the live event, and 16,000 to a simultaneous online broadcast of the content. The event theme, "Learn. Connect. Explore," highlights some of the advantages of the in-person experience, but with the economic and environmental benefits, the online version is likely to grow in subsequent years. With economic pain widespread among the AEC community, the emphasis was placed on the benefits of innovation and for a revamped design/build process that moves us further toward integrated design.

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HEADLINE NEWS Urban Planner: A Top Career for 2010 Taiwan $14b Infrastructure Boost Data Web Will Get Denser in 2010s Peruvian NGO Wins World Bank Grant To Paint Andes Mountains White GNSS CORS - Reference Frames and Services DLR Review of the Year 2009 France to Rethink Carbon Tax Plan New Year’s Resolutions for Cities: 10 Keys to Sustainability Planning Success Oceans Will be 150% More Acidic by 2050 Geo Software Aims to Avoid Ski Resort Eco-disasters How Geographic Information Systems Improve Karst Management Sustainability Comes of Ag 'Carousel' Frauds Plague European Carbon Trading Markets State of the Environment in Germany 2009

CALENDAR Spatial Information Technologies for Monitoring the Deformation, Jan. 11-12, HK, Hong Kong Map India, Jan. 19-21, Gurgaon, India Second EuroSDR Workshop on INSPIRE Atlas of Implementation Methods , Jan. 14-15, Brussels, Belgium Coastal Futures,Jan. 20-21, London, UK All Ireland Symposium on Built Environment Education [AISBEE], Jan. 22, Ulster, N. Ireland Remote Sensing And Geo-Information For Environmental Emergencies, Feb. 2, Torino, Italy Imagina, Feb. 3-5, Monaco SPAR 2010, Feb. 8-10, The Woodlands, Texas EuroCOW 2010, Feb. 10-12, Barcelona, Spain ESRI Federal User Conference, Feb. 17-19, Washington, D.C.

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