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GISMO November Meeting – Green Map System will be demonstrating the OpenGreenMap
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…
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Election 2008 Cartograms
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/
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Districts and LION 08B Released
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)-…
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Next GISMO Meeting on Wednesday 12 November 2008
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.…
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NYC OEM Position: GIS Intern
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:
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Next GISMO Meeting on Wednesday 10 September
Thanks to GISMO member & project contributor John Emerson for bringing An Atlas of Radical Cartography to our attention. September
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Next GISMO Meeting on Tues 20 May
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…
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CCW Mentoring Kickoff
From the January/February Columbia College Today alumni magazine: Columbia College Women held a Mentoring Program launch reception on November 27 in the President
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NYC Dept of Finance Handheld Device Presentation Now Available
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…