Mashup on iPad

OK, so tested Google, Bing, Yahoo, ESRI, Openlayers and MapServer mashups on the iPad, and much like on the iPhone, the slippy drag-and-droll interface doesn’t work. Except for one mashup. Take a guess?

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Webinar Series: TECH 101 – Mashups For Planning

TECH 101 – Mashups For Planning
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Mobile Webinar

Related:
* Mash-ups as Planning Tools
* GISP and AICP
* Technology Division of the American Planning Association (APA) Webinar Series – TECH 101: Mashups for Planning
* APA Technology Division: Education
* APA Technology Division Webinar . . . → Read More: Webinar Series: TECH 101 – Mashups For Planning

Technology Division of the American Planning Association (APA) Awards for 2010

Category 1: The award for the ‘Best Use of Technology to Improve a Plan or Planning Process’ goes to Marc Schlossberg‘s (University of Oregon) ‘Engaging Citizens in Active Transportation Planning with Mobile GIS‘ for its creative use of technology in improving planning processes.

Category 2: The award for the ‘Best Use of Technology for Public Participation’ goes . . . → Read More: Technology Division of the American Planning Association (APA) Awards for 2010

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) - It's Much More Than Google Maps - A Chat With GIS Experts

* Part 1
* Part 2
Interviewed by Carl Williams.

Related:
2009
* Technology Division of the American Planning Association (APA) Webinar Series – TECH 101: Mashups for Planning
2008
* GISP and AICP
2007
* Mash-ups as Planning Tools
* Neogeography 101: Word Association
* Elite Systems Research Institute, Inc. [ESRI] et al
* Google Earth [GE] @ Work
2006
* ESRI Ketchup!
* Why do you like Geography?
2005
* A . . . → Read More: Interview: “Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – It’s Much More Than Google Maps – A Chat With GIS Experts”

GISP and AICP

Although I am still on the fence on GISP given the relative lackluster, what APA has done with AICP‘s CM could give it some shine when it comes to creating a provider ecosystem.

To quickly fill you in: Last year at its Leadership Meetings, APA launched the CM program for AICP. In short, it required professional planners . . . → Read More: GISP and AICP

Neogeography 101: Word Association

Question:
‘Genre Books’ is to ‘Writer’
as
‘Web Maps’ is to …?

Choices:
• [a] iPhone [...since the buzz is about it- the Paris Hilton of the technorati]
• [b] Paris Hilton [...since the buzz is about her- the iPhone of the glitterati]
• [c] Geographer [...since ESRI Press said so]
• [d] Programmer/Developer

Answer:
• If you answered [c], you have spent a lot of . . . → Read More: Neogeography 101: Word Association

Follow Up [5]: Katrina Links

Former senator Stafford of Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, familiar to anyone requesting, managing and mapping disaster grants under the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program [HMGP] AKA Buyout Program, dies at 93.

–π

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• Pre-Disaster Mitigation [PDM] Grant . . . → Read More: Follow Up [5]: Katrina Links

Follow Up [4]: Katrina Links

“FEMA Told to Resume Storm Aid”

Related:
• Blogs about this article
• “Katrina Victims in Limbo as FEMA Appeals Aid Order”
• Government Accountability Office [GAO] Report: Abstract- Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Disaster Relief. Continued Findings of Fraud, Waste and Abuse. GAO-07-252T. December 6, 2006
• Video: Reactions from the Grassroots- Effects of Flood Map Modernization [Map Mod] Program’s Digital . . . → Read More: Follow Up [4]: Katrina Links

Why do you like Geography?

Here’s one of many reasons:

“… And then the strange people of Asia- the Tartars, who are such splendid horsemen; the Arabs, who travel over the deserts upon camels, and at night stop and tell stories to each other; and the Hindoos, who burn their widows and drown their children, thinking these things are pleasing to God; . . . → Read More: Why do you like Geography?

Follow Up [3]: Katrina Links

“Storm Surge Is Flood, Judge Says”

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• Blogs about this . . . → Read More: Follow Up [3]: Katrina Links

Follow Up [2]: Katrina Links

“Rethinking Flood Insurance” [09/21/2005]: A timely but poorly-researched editorial in The Washington Post on the levee problems plaguing the National Flood Insurance Program.

As much as some may cringe to what they see as their tax-dollars being spent on bail out, the often-omitted fact remains that many New Orleanians were not required by the National Flood Insurance . . . → Read More: Follow Up [2]: Katrina Links

Follow Up [1]: Katrina Links

• WIKI
• Red Cross: Family Links Registry
• Lycos: Missing Persons Search
• Housing Information Gateway
• Shelter Map
• Information Map
• ESRI: Katrina Disaster Viewer
• Google Earth: Imagery
• NYT: Draining New Orleans Map
• Contact: Mitigation Planners and Substantial Damage Assessors

Expounding on my earlier post on this disaster management and planning, the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 had laid down . . . → Read More: Follow Up [1]: Katrina Links

Katrina Links

• Katrina
• Craigslist: Lost and Found- New Orleans LA, Baton Rouge LA

While on this disaster as one watches events unfold, it becomes clear that an infuriating management style marked by a “hands-off” approach that is prone to making excuses for ignored red flags can only get rewarded for ideological and rhetorical reasons rather than merit. And . . . → Read More: Katrina Links

Population π

Below is a simple inquiry into how natural check could kick-in from a market stand-point to curtail a growing population. Although, a more interesting inquiry would have been “when” would it kick-in?

First, a sample population was divided into 3 basic groups- consumers, laborers and producers. Then the general effect of each on the other because of . . . → Read More: Population π

Tsunami Links

• NOAA: Tsunami Research Program
• NOAA: Tsunami Animation
• USGS: Natural Hazards Support System
• USGS: Earthquake Hazards Program
• UN News Center: Tsunami
• UN Map: “Serving the Information Needs”
• Tsunami Homepage
• IASC: Humanitarian Early Warning Service
• Nature: Photographs
• BBC: Asia Quake Disaster
• ESRI Pressroom: Indian Ocean Disaster
• Penn State: World Data
• . . . → Read More: Tsunami Links