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Illinois Senate opens 'Map Room' for public to submit ideas on district lines
Interested in the ideas the general public has about the redrawing Illinois' legislative districts, member of the Illinois Senate Subcommittee on Legislative Reappointment encouraged groups to utilize the Senate's public map room and submit their own plans to the Senate. The public map room is stocked with a high-powered computer, mapping software, 2000 census data and a trained staff person to assist mapmakers. "I encourage groups who have an interest to utilize our public map room or team up with groups who have access to mapping software and submit their ideas to us," said Senator Walter Dudycz, who presided over Monday's hearing. "We are very interested in seeing how various groups want to see the map lines fall." The public access room is located in Room 1004 of the Stratton Office Building in Springfield. The 'Map Room' will be available Monday and Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Appointments are required and can be made by calling 217-782-5441 during those same hours. Members of the Senate Subcommittee include Senate President James 'Pate' Philip (R-Wooddale), and Senators Dudycz (R-Chicago), Frank Watson (R-Greenville), Emil Jones (D-Chicago) and Vince Demuzio (D-Carlinville).
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Avenza's MAPublisher Goes for Olympic Gold
Avenza Systems has announced that through the provision of software licenses to the graphic design team and direct cartographic design services, Avenza's MAPublisher product proved to be an instrumental part in the preparation and design of the many dozens of maps which appear in the 600-page, 3 volume, Olympic bid book for the 2008 summer Olympics. A full explanation of Avenza's participation along with some of the maps can be found at :
http://www.avenza.com/to-2008.html
The full Toronto 2008 Olympic Bid Book can be viewed at:
http://www.to-2008.com/english/page_blue_1345.asp
Laser-Scan appoints Managing Director
Laser-Scan has announced the appointment of Dr Michael Sanderson as Managing Director. Dr Sanderson takes on the position as Laser-Scan expands its presence in the
GIS marketplace and takes advantage of new markets in e-government, web mapping and location-based services. Dr Sanderson brings more than 20 years of experience in sales, marketing and software development to his new post at Laser-Scan. He has a strong technical and management background within the GIS industry. He was previously Managing Director of Genasys II (UK) Ltd where he was involved in partner channel development to deliver geospatial applications across Europe and Africa.
Visit: http://www.laser-scan.com
LocatioNet release free comprehensive interface for developing LBS
LocatioNet Systems 2000 has released its free comprehensive application protocol interface (API) book, opening the door to developers interested in designing location-specific applications and services.LocatioNet provides a technology platform for wireless location-based services. Their API booklet allows both application and content developers to get all of their location resources through a simple XML based request. LocatioNet's open-platform does not require application developers to integrate directly with positioning determining technologies or content providers. Through the LocatioNet Platform(TM), application and content developers can be provided with either addresses and/or latitude/longitude formats, as may be requested by their specific application. The API booklet gives developers the freedom to create applications without having been written with specific geographies in mind, but rather maintain an agnostic relationship with geography and content.
Visit: http://www.locationet.com/
ImageAmerica announces orthoimagery award from Crawford County, Ohio
ImageAmerica, has announced that it had been awarded a contract to provide TerraSource(R) Update Orthophotography for Crawford County, Ohio. ImageAmerica has developed and operates the worlds only direct digital panoramic aerial camera system.
ImageAmerica has announced that it had been awarded a contract to provide TerraSource(R) Update Orthophotography for Crawford County, Ohio. Speaking on behalf of the County, Don Long, County Auditor said, "We decided rather late this spring to do an aerial mapping project of the entire county." ImageAmerica has developed and operates the worlds only direct digital panoramic aerial camera system. The Company provides near real-time proprietary imagery, and imagery products under the TerraSource(R) brand name for government and municipal customers.
Visit: http://www.terrasource.com
 
USGS scientists, along with NASA, develop new extreme-storm hazards map
USGS scientists, with their partners in NASA, using data gathered by a high-tech, airplane mounted NASA laser, have developed a new map showing critical elevations of the south Atlantic coast that indicate relative vulnerabilities of the coast to storm surge overtopping and inundation by hurricanes and extreme storms. They have also developed a new scale that categorizes expected coastal change (erosion and accretion) that occurs during storms.The new data used in the map will help local emergency management and natural resource officials prepare for storms and was acquired with NASA's Airborne Topographic Mapper, or ATM, and have far better accuracy and data density than data presently available from traditional topographic maps.
The map and scale are now available on the web at:
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/mappingchange/
 
Interactive Map showing wilderness & human impact in the Barents region
An Interactive map, which displays modeled human impact on wilderness. The model was based on infrastructure, such as railroads, roads, settlements and utilities, and the impact as a radius from these features. In addition forests were used as a limit of the impact. The goal with this map was to create a too to be used as a guidance for conservation and environmental issues. The map is based on the GLOBIO methodology, which was implemented to set distance impacts and disturbances generated by infrastructure development. The extents of the zone are based upon several hundred field-studies from international scientific journals. Impacts include reduced accessibility to important grazing habitat, and changes in predator-prey relationship as a result of infrastructure and associated human activity. The results exist to enable the assessment of wilderness quality in the Barents Region and in a near future in the world. The database, and the maps produced from it, can be used to influence environmental decision-making processes within the region. Perhaps more importantly, it can be used to motivate decisions where the need to protect, or even recreate, pristine areas is the prime issue. The service has been developed by UNEP/GRID-Arendal, and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) affiliated environmental data and information centre.
Visit: http://maps.grida.no/barents & http://www.grida.no/prog/polar/globio/
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