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TECH 101 – Mashups For Planning Mobile Webinar Related:  5 comments  Database, Education, GIS, GISBlog, Geography, IMS, LBS, Mashup, OSGeo, Planning, Programming, Service, Social, Technology, Virtual Globe, Web  add, api, cowley, create, data, demo, earth, edu, Education, esri, evans, geo, georeference, GIS, gisblog.org, google, harsh, howto, image, javascript, jennifer, kml, map, marker, mash-up, Mashup, microsoft, opensource, osu, placemark, Planning, prakash, program, Service, Social, spatial, spreadsheet, Technology, Web, web2, webinar, wms, yahoo 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 “Big-City Rush Hour Blues Now Afflict Smaller Cities: 36 hours. That’s the additional time the average U.S. urban traveler spends on the road per year because of rush-hour congestion, according to the Texas Transportation Institute. What’s more, commuters in medium-size cities now face about the same delays that residents of “very large” cities experienced a quarter-century . . . → Read More: Follow Up [1]: Rural Clusters and Relative Rurality Top 10 most congested metro areas: Related: America’s 10 Most Miserable Cities Related: CO2 emissions per capita: Carbon dioxide emissions in metric tons per capita Population: Midyear estimates of the resident population Related: http://www.planning.org/divisions/tech/education/ http://techdivisionwebinars.eventbrite.com/ Related: 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 Planning departments, especially those of smaller cities, have long hesitated because of technology, budgetary and other constraints to engage their constituents through web-based mapping tools. Part of the reason is simply an uneasiness with Web 2.0-esque mapping technologies. Well, these days they have less to worry about. That is, if they don’t mind piggy-backing on corporate giants. Recently, . . . → Read More: Mash-ups as Planning Tools BBC News | Special Reports: “Weather disasters ‘getting worse’” Related:
Source: Related: The US Economic Development Administration [EDA], in conjunction with the State of Indiana, has recently released an interesting research titled “The Role of Regional Clusters: Unlocking Rural Competitiveness” [2007] on the benefits of regionalism in rural America. One of the primary objectives of this research is to help rural America find its competitive edge in our rapidly . . . → Read More: Rural Clusters and Relative Rurality 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 Related: “FEMA Told to Resume Storm Aid” Related: As the Secretary/Treasurer of the Technology Division of APA, I recently had the opportunity to interview Ric Stephens, our Immediate Past Editor: π: So what got you into planning and publishing/editing? After . . . → Read More: Interview: Ric Stephens, Immediate Past Editor, Technology Division of the American Planning Association [APA] “Storm Surge Is Flood, Judge Says” Related: “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 WIKI 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 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 “As we become aware of the ethical implications of design, not only with respect to buildings, but in every aspect of human endeavour, they reflect changes in the historical concept of who or what has rights. When you study the history of rights, you begin with the Magna Carta which was about the rights of white, . . . → Read More: Declaration of Interdependence Nutshell: “‘Substituting tax-increase with state lottery’ [Policy - Director/Manager/Planner] as a means to generate additional revenue. Here, it becomes important to first find the ‘percentage of non-gamblers/gamblers/disinterested in the effected constituency’ [Information - Spatial Analyst] because ‘opposition to such a move is more likely to come from non-gamblers’ [Theory - Planner]“. Nutshell adapted from [Skinner, B. Beyond . . . → Read More: Making Public Policy: A Nutshell 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 NOAA: Tsunami Research Program What is the most effective method to spread the digital wave, especially of the spatial kind, in rural communities and developing countries? The following links offer some fodder, although Korea left the company of developing nations some time ago. A lot of talk has centered around the potential of wireless to bridge the digital chasm between . . . → Read More: Wanted: Proactive Policies |
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