The New York Times’ Interactive Map of the Damage from the Earthquake in Japan: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/flash/newsgraphics/2011/0311-japan-earthquake-map/index.html?hp I was able to locate the town where my friend Pia’s brother is teaching English (center of quake zone but far from the nuclear plants, very little structural damage, no casualties) and where my daughter’s camp friend’s family lives (quite … Read more
Steve Romalewski posted notes on NYC GIS Summit 2010 at: http://spatialityblog.com/2010/05/24/notes-from-nysgissummit2010/ Feel free to post any comments, different opinions, more detailed feedback if you attended. Also check out Steve’s post about a new feature in Google Maps
Amy Jeu sent me this announcement. If you love mapping and love mentoring kids, don’t miss this opportunity: The Geographic Information Sciences (GIS) software company ESRI has partnered with National Geographic to recruit GIS professionals to mentor students. In true GIS form, they present a map of who is mentoring where. So far, no one … Read more
The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote SensingNorth 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 … Read more
Date: Wednesday November 12, 2008Time: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pmLocation:Fund for the City of New York121 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 … Read more
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 releaseof LION and Districts 08B. The following files are available for freedownload from our website. 1. The DCP LION single line street file (08B)- available in bothMapInfo Table and ESRI File GeoDatabase formats.data >> http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/dwnlion.shtmlmetatdata >> http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/meta_lion.shtml 2. The Political and Administrative Districts (08B)- … Read more
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. … Read more
NYC Office of Emergency ManagementGeographic Information System (GIS) Unit Position: GIS InternThe GIS unit seeks a self-motivated intern to carry out activitiesrelating to application and web map programming, map production, anddatabase design. Familiarity with programming language such as C# orJava is required. Also knowledge of GIS software packages such asArcMap is preferred. ResponsibilitiesGeneral: