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March 26, 2012 Ryan Resella | Profiles from the Geospatial CommunityCommunityRyan Resella is a former coworker of mine back from when we both worked for the City of Santa Clarita in California. Ryan has just begun his first year as a permanent member of Code for America’s team after thriving as an inaugural fellow last year with the program. I asked Ryan some questions about ... read more February 28, 2012Spatial Humanities: Step by Step GIS InstructionsCommunity, EducationThe Spatial Humanities site has a growing list of step by step instructions on how to create and work with GIS data using such spatial technologies as ArcGIS, HyperCities, Google’s Fusion Tables, and Google Maps. The latest set of instructions provides downloadable sample files to run the user through heads up digitizing in order to ... read more February 20, 2012 British Library Launches Crowdsourcing Map Georeferencing ProgramCommunity, MapsThe British Library has launched a pilot project to engage the public’s help in geoferencing historical maps. A sample of 725 maps of England and Wales from the 18th and 19th century (from the Ordnance Survey Drawings, 1780-1840) along with with large-scale street plans of London from 1560 to 1860 (from the the Crace Collection) have been selected for this ... read more January 20, 2012 Help Map Medical Locations in LibyaCommunity, DataWith the help of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), GISCorps, and the Stand By Task Force (SBTF) (an online volunteer mapping community), the WHO has been trying to map out all the medical facilities within the embattled country of Libya. The project is an ongoing effort and a call for help has gone out in a memo to ... read more October 17, 2011 Help Support Geospatial Professional Atanas EntchevCommunityUPDATE: Atanas Entchev’s daughter, Christina, has published a post about his detainment by immigration officials as well as a call for support. Please help if you can. I’m posting this to help spread the call for letters of support for fellow geospatial professional Atanas Entchev. Many of you may be familiar with Atanas Entchev who ... read more September 5, 2011 GIS ConversationsCommunityMore and more, social media platforms such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, and Facebook are dominating when it comes to fostering debate about GIS issues. Comments on geoblogs are being shuttered in favor of conversations on social media sites. Forums, too, have declined in popularity. Only a handful of forums have regular and lively debates such ... read more August 28, 2011Site News: Forum ClosedCommunityAfter a year of hosting a forum on GIS Lounge, I have made the decision to close it down. While the forum has received a decent amount of initial posts, relatively few of the posts receive replies. Couple that with a spam to legitimate post ratio of over 100:1, it is clearly not the thriving ... read more August 23, 2011 GeoConnectPeopleCommunityGeoConnectPeople, a social media site for those working in the geospatial technology field, was recently launched by the Brazilian GIS web site MundoGEO. The aim of the site is to connect those in the geospatial field to each other so that common groups can be formed for the purpose of networking and debating GIS ... read more August 3, 2011August 2011 GIS Conferences and EventsCommunityAugust 5 – 6 International Conference on Health GIS | New Delhi, India | 5~6 August, 2011 4th International Conference on Health GIS Date: 5-6 August, 2011 Location: New Delhi, India Website: http://www.e-geoinfo.net/healthgis2011/ Brief Description: The world is facing serious challenge from new emerging diseases such as Chicken Guinea, Bird Flu, Dengue and also the ... read more August 2, 2011 URISA Membership DealCommunityIf you’ve been wanting to try out a membership with URISA (Urban and Regional Information Systems Association) but haven’t because of the normal $175 annual member dues, URISA has a deal for you. For a limited time, URISA is offering a $20 initial membership fee for the rest of the year. The $20 gets you ... read more |
