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Kevin Pomfret, executive director of the Centre for Spatial Law and Policy, spoke this morning at the Autovation event regarding privacy issues related to spatial information and the smart grid. With the move to collect more and more data from phones, imaging sensors, smart meters, and other sensor sources, there is a growing concern about [...]
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The application of Web-based GIS mapping to track food in order to minimize the impact of foodborne illness was the focus of a talk by Stacy Supak from North Carolina State University at today’s FOSS4G event in the educational track. A framework of web mapping is in development for North Carolina’s food protection program based [...]
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With drought, conflict and food price increases giving rise to famine conditions that are affecting more than 13 million people in the Horn of Africa, the World Food Programme (WFP) has put the crisis on a map to help communicate the scope. WFP is the food aid arm of the United Nations, and the map [...]
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Perhaps you’ve seen billboards or seen recent news coverage about a growing hunger problem in America due to the current state of the economy. Feeding America, which bills itself as the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity, puts the problem in perspective with their interactive map showing the level of food insecurity in each county in [...]
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Building America’s Future Educational Fund, a bipartisan and national infrastructure coalition, just released a report that examines the economic challenges posed by the United States’ ailing transportation infrastructure. The report, “Falling Apart and Falling Behind,” reviews investments being made by international competitors and recommends new transportation policies to spur U.S. economic growth. Among the report [...]
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The province of British Columbia is the first in Canada to launch an open data portal that allows both developers and citizens to download and explore large volumes of government information. The impressive data catalog includes 2,500 sets of data, tools to conduct research and analyze statistics, as well as tools to develop custom applications. [...]
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There’s a feature in today’s Denver Post about the sickest 1% that spend nearly 30 percent of healthcare dollars. The feature outlines efforts with pilot programs and modeling experiments that are underway to understand where these patients live, and how to drive down the cost of their care. Dr. Jane Brock, medical officer of the [...]
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The National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC) met June 8-9, in Washington, D.C. On the agenda were discussions on transportation for the nation, Census address and road features and parcels, and parcel data on tribal lands. There was also concern about the impact on lidar mapping technologies from new Federal Aviation Administration regulations that ban the [...]
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