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| 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 is ... 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 old ones such as AIDS, Malaria and ... 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 August 1, 2011 Call for Input: GIS Skills and Employment SurveyCommunityAre you currently employed in the field of GIS? Help contribute to this study about the state of GIS employment and the skills needed to succeed as a GIS professional. The survey will be open until the end of September with results published in October of 2011 on GIS Lounge. To be notified when the results ... read more July 21, 2011 GIS in Imagery: 2011 Esri UCCommunityThe 2011 Esri International User Conference brought over 14,000 attendees to San Diego again this year under the theme “Understanding Our World“. Kristina Jacob, a GIS specialist and photographer, captures moments from the conference as part of the GIS in Imagery series. To submit photos for consideration to the GIS in Imagery series, please visit the submission ... read more July 15, 2011Traffic Mapping for CarmageddonCommunityThe upcoming closure of the 405 freeway in Los Angeles as part of a freeway expansion project has put this car-centric city on high alert. Crowd-sourcing traffic app Waze is joining in on the effort to help keep LA traffic moving. In a partnership with local TV station abc7, Waze has launched several mapping efforts to ... read more |
