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The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
North Atlantic Region Meeting

FEATURING

Mike Umansky from Applied Imagery on

Wendy Brawer presented at GISMO’s November meeting. If you missed it, you can peruse the new website-in-progress at http://OpenGreenMap.org. There are over 2250 sites and the first 30 Open Green Maps to explore today. Click Design Preview on the top bar for the Slideshow or a 5 minute video about the project and some of the forthcoming features.

We welcome you all to add your email to our newsletter box on the homepage at http://GreenMap.org – then you will receive the invitation to this new interactive platform’s launch party in the Spring (you can review these monthly emails at http://www.greenmap.org/greenhouse/en/news/newsletters

Date: Wednesday November 12, 2008
Time: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location:
Fund for the City of New York
121 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor

Green Map System will be demonstrating the OpenGreenMap.org participatory website-in-progress and sharing the potential of this new new tool for inclusive participation in sustainable community development. Presenters include Thomas Turnbull, lead developer (using Drupal, Google Map and more), Carlos Martinez, Latin America Coordinator (managing interface translations and social network outreach) and Wendy Brawer, founding director. Now involving 500 diverse communities in 54 countries, the locally-led global Green Map movement continues to expand and impact our city and our world.

For more on the origins of Green Map & an interview with Wendy see: http://www.grist.org/advice/books/2006/04/18/sprinkle/

For directions to the fund, go to:
http://www.fcny.org/portal.php/fcny/directions/

Jack Eichenbaum posted a link to interesting cartograms covering the 2008 Election results:

Cartograms are maps where shape is rudimentarily maintained but traditional areas are distorted to represent another variable like population.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/

The NYC Department of City Planning is pleased to announce the release
of LION and Districts 08B. The following files are available for free
download from our website.

1. The DCP LION single line street file (08B)- available in both
MapInfo Table and ESRI File GeoDatabase formats.
data >> http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/dwnlion.shtml
metatdata >> http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/meta_lion.shtml

2. The Political and Administrative Districts (08B)- available only in
ESRI shapefile format.
data >> http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/dwndistricts.shtml
metadata >> http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/districtsmetadata.shtml

3. NYC Projection Areas (08B) – available only in both ESRI shapefile.
data >> http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/dwn_pa.shtml
metadata >> http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/meta_pa.shtml

For all other NYC Department of City Planning GIS products, please
visit the BYTES of the BIG APPLE website at:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/applbyte.shtml

Uttam Bera
GIS Specialist, ITD
Department of City Planning
22 Reade Street, 5N
New York, NY 10007

Green Map System will be demonstrating the OpenGreenMap.org participatory website-in-progress and sharing the potential of this new new tool for inclusive participation in sustainable community development. Presenters include Thomas Turnbull, lead developer (using Drupal, Google Map and more), Carlos Martinez, Latin America Coordinator (managing interface translations and social network outreach) and Wendy Brawer, founding director. Now involving 500 diverse communities in 54 countries, the locally-led global Green Map movement continues to expand and impact our city and our world.

For more on the origins of Green Map & an interview with Wendy see: http://www.grist.org/advice/books/2006/04/18/sprinkle/

NYC Office of Emergency Management
Geographic Information System (GIS) Unit

Position: GIS Intern
The GIS unit seeks a self-motivated intern to carry out activities
relating to application and web map programming, map production, and
database design. Familiarity with programming language such as C# or
Java is required. Also knowledge of GIS software packages such as
ArcMap is preferred.

Responsibilities
General:

Thanks to GISMO member & project contributor John Emerson for bringing An Atlas of Radical Cartography to our attention. September

Dom Elefante and Eric Yadlovski of the New Jersey Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute (MERI) will present a functional overview of ERIS, a customized Emergency Response GIS Tool that integrates critical information from easily-queried, right-to-know databases, developed under a regional initiative to share GIS resources among local governments. ERIS data is displayed using available online mapping services and standalone laptops which have been provided to emergency town officials. It has been deployed on emergency vehicles and on Interactive Mapping Services (IMS) as well as a Google Earth-based application designed to be Web accessible.

http://meri.njmeadowlands.gov/GIS/eris.php

http://www.meadowlands.state.nj.us/municipal/gis.html

Thanks to Dom for agreeing to reprise this session, which MERI offered at GITA