GIS

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 … Read more

Steve Romalewski (CUNY Mapping Service) Michael Ufer (dev408) and Herb Stratton’s (NYC Dept of Finance) presentation on “Handheld mapping and data connectivity for NYC Dept of Finance” is now available for download: handheld_presentation_to_GISMO_11-14-07.pdf And for fun, David LaShell presented ESRI’s very own robot, SARA. SARA was created for ESRI by Penobscot Bay Media. Their Robotic … Read more

Ken Reid recommends two New Jersey GIS resources: New Jersey Geospatial Forum (NJGF) and NJMunicipalGIS at yahoogroups as GIS resource for NJ. NJGF is an umbrella organization for NJ and NJMunicipalGIS has over 160 members. https://njgin.state.nj.us/OIT_NJGF/njgf_organization.jsp http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/NJMunicipalGIS/?yguid=89749886

November 14 is GIS Day. GISMO will be holding its General Meeting on Nov 14 at the Fund for the City of New York. Some other events of note: The NYS Dept of Health & Mental Hygiene is offering a map gallery and workshop125 Worth Street(212) 788-2221 New Jersey Institute of Technology plans panel discussions … Read more

The next GISMO General Meeting will be held on Wednesday, Sept 19, 2007 at the Fund for the City of New York, 121 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY. For details, please visit the GISMO website.

The 2007 North East Map Organization (NEMO) Map Design Awards have been annouced. The competition has been established both to honor mapmakers in the Northeast and to promote map making and best practices. Categories have been established to honor professional and amateur mapmakers and those in high school, undergraduate and graduate programs. Groups composed of … Read more

For a research project I am working on, I am interested in what your favorite usability issues are regarding using online and mobile maps. Some thoughts: Everyone is using Google mashups to add maps to their websites. It looks the same, works the same, returns the same kind of data, etc. Is this a good … Read more