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This looks to be a good book on backgrounding how police use —or do not use —GIS so a reporter can ask informed questions. Oh,did I mention that it's free? http://www.rutgerscps.org/gisbook/dwnld39629.html “From the BACK COVER This book,GIS for Public Safety,focuses on ESRI’s ArcGIS functionality (the most popular [...] From Internet Scout:Cartography 2.0 http://cartography2.org/ Professor Mark Harrower at the University of Wisconsin Madison's Department of Geography was frustrated with the “inability of traditional textbooks to keep pace with Web technologies.”So he and his colleagues set out to create Cartography 2.0,which is a “free knowledge base and e-textbook for students and professionals interested in interactive and animated maps.”First-time visitors might want to look over the “Purpose”section before diving into the separate “Chapters”of the book. All of the chapters can be found on the homepage,and they cover topics such as map animation,virtual globes,elements of design,and map interaction techniques. Each chapter contains descriptive essays,along with maps and diagrams that illustrate key principles. The “New Content”section on the homepage features the latest additions to the site,and overall this work is a model for educators who might be interested in crafting an engaging and dynamic online textbook. [KMG] [...] For those of us familiar with San Franciso,its bay and its famous bridge,The Golden Gate,this is a compelling infographic. Fundamental in its data and a fine mix of data and representation of geography. Once again,thanks to Nathan at Flowing Data.
Suicides by Location on the Golden Gate Bridge [...] gheat is,as its promo line says,a nifty tool to turn a Google pin map into a heat map. (Or should we be calling that a “Heat”map?) Here's what the page looks like,but drill down into the examples. I especially like the map of Davis,Calif. bike accidents.
[...] Thanks to Michael Corey over on NICAR-L Random find today for the geographically inclined:http://finder.geocommons.com/ Library of spatial data,and the ability to convert it all to and from Shapefile,KML and CSV. They also produce http://maker.geocommons.com/,a quick way to build visually appealing maps with all that data. Haven't experimented with it much [...] Discovered a new,online resource for teaching spatial thinking today while attending the UCGIS Summer Assembly here in Santa Fe. Take a lookat teachspatial.org: About TeachSpatial TeachSpatial.org implements suggestions from a multi-disciplinary Symposium on a Curriculum for Spatial Thinking. The symposium,organized by Diana Sinton,Mike Goodchild,and Don Janelle,was hosted by the [...] We've been noticing since the first of the year the results of some very creative and sometime brilliant aggregation sites. (Do we need a new phrase for this format?) These sites are richer than Google mash-ups in that they allow far more control by the user. Some,like Mint.com or TripIt.com,also require various [...] From O'Reilly Radar…. Amazon Hosts TIGER Mapping Data Posted:29 May 2009 09:18 AM PDT Last week at Ignite Where Eric Gundersen of Development Seed made a significant announcement for [...] “Where 09″is a fine conference put on by O'Reilly Publishing. At this year's conference,Jack Dangermond,honcho at ESRI,talked about “Realizing Spatial Intelligence on the GeoWeb.”Take note of how he and a colleague use a command in Google Maps –“Greeley:mapservers” —to call up a bunch of map servers and [...] Great opportunity for learning if one is in the New Orleans area.
The Tenth Crime Mapping Research Conference http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=c9e87fa2-759d-4bb3-a42d-91841ca7dfa2 Solving Problems with Geography and Technology Solutions to crime and public safety problems are necessarily about “where.” Those solutions are a combination of research,practice,technology and policy that [...] | ||||||
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