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Published at Geoawesomeness
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beeline
gadgets
Commuting on bike in a city gives you freedom. You’re not stuck in a traffic, you can ride on bike lines, streets and sidewalks. You can explore the city at your own pace and escape the whirlwind of stop and go vehicles. The experience is great but at the end you want to reach your final destination and for […]
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Jan 19 2017 □
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Published at The EPA Blog
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epa connect
epa science
Over the past few years we have heard a pretty constant refrain about “EPA overreach” which is shorthand for saying EPA has gone beyond the authority given to it by Congress. Even though as Administrator both Lisa Jackson and I pledged to follow two guiding principles – the rule of law and scientific integrity –(...)
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Published at Esri Insider
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community development
gis
industry focus
infrastructure
story maps
During rush hour on August 1, 2007, sections of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, began to collapse and fall into the Mississippi River, killing 13 people and injuring another 145. This was only one of a series of …
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Jan 19 2017 □
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Published at GISCafe Voice
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big data
climate change
cloud
cloud network analytics
crowd source
Chris Sheldrick, CEO and Co-Founder of what3words, spoke with GISCafe Voice recently about the multi-award winning addressing system’s recent adoption as an addressing standard for La Poste, the Côte d’Ivoire’s national postal system. Côte d’Ivoire is the first African nation – and second country in the world (Mongolia is the first) – to adopt 3 word […]
Jan 19 2017 □
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Published at GISCafe Voice
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big data
climate change
cloud
cloud network analytics
crowd source
Chris Sheldrick, CEO and Co-Founder of what3words, spoke with GISCafe Voice recently about the multi-award winning addressing system’s recent adoption as an addressing standard for La Poste, the Côte d’Ivoire’s national postal system. Côte d’Ivoire is the first African nation – and second country in the world (Mongolia is the first) – to adopt 3 word […]
Jan 19 2017 □
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Published at Safe Software Blog
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about fme
fme server
Hello again. I’m here to report how your feedback to Safe Software has helped us make FME Server 2017 the best ever! Plus, I want to show you two ways to provide feedback on what you want to see happen in future releases of FME Server. For the last 5 years we have run an annual FME […]
The post FME Server 2017 – The Best Ever, Thanks To You! appeared first on Safe Software Blog.
Jan 19 2017 □
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Published at The EPA Blog
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citizen science
innovations in american government awards
it all starts with science
village green project
By Kacey Fitzpatrick EPA and other federal agencies are tasked with finding solutions to some of the world’s most pressing and complicated problems. These problems require innovative solutions, which EPA supports through use of crowdsourcing, citizen science, and public engagement. Two of these efforts have advanced to the semifinalist stage of the 2017 Innovations in(...)
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Published at The EPA Blog
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epa connect
epa tribal program
tribal relations
tribal treaty rights
By: JoAnn Chase and Ethan Shenkman EPA has long honored tribal rights to sovereignty, self-governance and self-determination. These principles are enshrined in EPA’s Indian Policy, signed by Administrator Ruckelshaus in 1984 and reaffirmed by every EPA Administrator since. Thanks to the unique partnership between our offices — EPA’s American Indian Environmental Office (AIEO) and EPA’s(...)
Jan 19 2017 □
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Published at The EPA Blog
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bristol marsh
delaware river
healthy waters
marsh restoration
by Tom Damm Actions of all sizes are helping to restore the Delaware River and its surrounding areas. There are broad steps, like the recently approved Delaware River Basin Conservation Act that will help coordinate and advance protection activities. And there are more focused ones, like this week’s trash cleanup at the Bristol Marsh in(...)
Jan 19 2017 □
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Published at The Map Room
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antique maps
exhibitions
utah
Another map exhibition I neglected to mention yesterday: Utah Drawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps runs from 27 January to late summer 2017 at the Utah Capitol Building in Salt Lake City; it features “forty rare historical maps depicting the region that became the state of Utah from its earliest imaginings by European cartographers to Utah’s modern state’s …
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Jan 19 2017 □
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Published at The Map Room
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cartography
map projections
mapbox
web mapping
Maps online invariably use the Web Mercator projection. The Dirty Reprojectors project aims to change that, at least in Mapbox. Anand Thakker explains. Almost all web mapping libraries render maps using Web Mercator, making an assumption that you generally can’t change out-of-the-box. This has advantages, but it posed a real challenge for us when we set out to …
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Jan 18 2017 □
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Published at The Map Room
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2016 us elections
movies and television
new york times
politics
usa
Last month the New York Times mapped the U.S. cultural divide by looking at television viewing preferences. More precisely, the geographic distribution of viewership for the 50 most-liked TV shows. The correlation between Duck Dynasty fandom and voting for Trump was higher than for any other show. More surprisingly, the show most correlated with voting for Clinton? Family Guy.
Jan 18 2017 □
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Published at Geoawesomeness
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geo business
self-driving cars
tomtom
Today TomTom announced that it has acquired a Berlin-based autonomous driving startup called Autonomos. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Autonomos was founded in 2012 by a group of computer science and AI academics who had worked on driving projects at the Free University of Berlin. Since then, the company has grown to employ over 20 staff and has worked […]
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Jan 18 2017 □
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drones
In a recent post, I wrote that drones are the key to our future, and their presence will be noticeable in our everyday life. After the announcement of Alarm.com during CES 2017, I’m convinced more than ever that it’s truth. The company is building a security system where UAVs are playing a key role. The system […]
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Jan 18 2017 □
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Published at ArcGIS Blog
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analysis & geoprocessing
apps
arcgis for emergency management
arcgis online
arcgis pro
The team has been working over the last few months to enhance the ArcGIS for Emergency Management solutions and to improve the solution deployment process. We’d like to highlight the following solutions: Situational Awareness, Operations Response, and Logistics Planning Each …
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