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In this article, we will learn how to create a similar yet more customized plot using my favorite geovisualization package, Folium.I will also show you how to use the “Marker Cluster” feature of…...
Digital volunteers are racing to map regions in West Africa where the Ebola virus, which has a 90 percent fatality rate, continues to spread
We investigate the growth dynamics of Greater London defined by the administrative boundary of the Greater London Authority, based on the evolution of its street network during the last two centuries. This is done by employing a unique dataset, consisting of the planar graph representation of nine time slices of Greater London's road network spanning 224 years, from 1786 to 2010. Within this time-frame, we address the concept of the metropolitan area or city in physical terms, in that urban evolution reveals observable transitions in the distribution of relevant geometrical properties. Given that London has a hard boundary enforced by its long standing green belt, we show that its street network dynamics can be described as a fractal space-filling phenomena up to a capacitated limit, whence its growth can be predicted with a striking level of accuracy. This observation is confirmed by the analytical calculation of key topological properties of the planar graph, such as the topological growth of the network and its average connectivity. This study thus represents an example of a strong violation of Gibrat's law. In particular, we are able to show analytically how London evolves from a more loop-like structure, typical of planned cities, toward a more tree-like structure, typical of self-organized cities. These observations are relevant to the discourse on sustainable urban planning with respect to the control of urban sprawl in many large cities which have developed under the conditions of spatial constraints imposed by green belts and hard urban boundaries. Masucci AP, Stanilov K, Batty M (2013) Limited Urban Growth: London's Street Network Dynamics since the 18th Century. PLoS ONE 8(8): e69469. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069469
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NJVC will leverage the Cloudcuity AppDeployer application PaaS to integrate various apps to support the needs of a diverse population of international disaster first responders (e.g., law enforcement, fire response, disaster medical response) into a common complex humanitarian disaster (CHD) management operating environment.
Stanford scientists have identified key acoustic characteristics of the 2011 Japan earthquake that indicated it would cause a large tsunami. The technique could be applied worldwide to create an early warning system for massive tsunamis.
Learn GIS for free online from these university and institution based resources. Learn GIS on your own or supplement your existing geospatial education.
Research based implementation of development programs is mainly assisted with Geographic Information System (GIS) and disseminated through Public Relations (PR).
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With the combining increasingly of the Geographic Information System (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) technologies with the modern network communication technology, some unique advantages have been displaying in the monitoring, forewarning and disaster...
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Found this interesting: MongoDB has native support for geospatial indexes and extensions to the query language to support a lot of different ways of querying your geo spatial documents. We will touch on a all of the available features of the MongoDB geospatial support point by point as including:
Query $near a point with a maximum distance around that point
Set the minimum and maximum range for the 2d space letting you map any data to the space
GeoNear command lets you return the distance from each point found
$within query lets you set a shape for you query letting you use a circle, box or arbitrary polygon, letting you map complex geo queries such as congressional districts or post code zones.
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Curious where NASA's Curiosity is going? Then this is just he resource - a fantastic blog post from Mapbox.com on using open source mapping tools to create online maps of Mars. If you are into using map based services - this is a must read both for the technology covered, the processes described and because its awesome. Enjoy. Click on the image or the link to learn more.
The Next-Generation of Geospatial Technology and the World Bank’s Role in Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to enhance Development Outcomes. Many work programs within the World Bank are now embracing the use of ICT tools for engaging citizens, gathering data, disseminating information, improving transparency and accountability, and ensuring better communication and collaboration. These tools have been employed both in country-level work as well as through efforts to open up the World Bank’s processes. Esri president Jack Dangermond and World Bank staff discuss future possibilities of geospatial technology and how they can use those technologies to meet various development goals. Click on headline to see video of event.
Cities have long been the world’s economic dynamos, but today the speed and scale of their expansion are unprecedented. Through a combination of consumption and investment in physical capital, growing cities could inject up to $30 trillion a year into the world economy by 2025. Understanding cities and their shifting demographics is critical to reaching urban consumers and to preparing for the challenges that will arise from increasing demand for natural resources (such as water and energy) and for capital to invest in new housing, office buildings, and port capacity. Report|McKinsey Global Institute
Urban world: Cities and the rise of the consuming class
June 2012 | by Richard Dobbs, Jaana Remes, James Manyika, Charles Roxburgh, Sven Smit and Fabian Schaer
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DIELMO 3D Provides Geospatial Back-Office for UAV, Heli, Fixed-Wing and ...
Nation puts geospatial data system on the map
Space Daily
China has established a national emergency geospatial data system to provide first-responders with detailed maps within two hours after a disaster, a senior official said.
Each of the 24,000 dots on this map of London has been coloured according to its most frequently reported crime between May 2012 and April 2013. During this period, more than 250,000 crimes were reported – the equivalent of one every two minutes.
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A new online mapping tool wants to make better urban planning by comparing a standardized map experience.
2013 Esri International User Conference in San Diego, California, from July 8-12, 2013. Esri's yearly user conference is the largest geospatial conference.
Palantir's data platform, Gotham, enables data integration, search and discovery, knowledge management, secure collaboration, and algorithmic analysis across a wide variety of data sources.
According to a report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) the geospatial services industry in the United States generates annual revenues of $75 billion annually. That is about 0.5 % of the US GDP. The report breaks the geospatial services...
Transforming ArcGIS into a Platform, One of the primary drivers of the ArcGIS as a platform initiative has been making GIS easier not only for new users but for advanced users, as well. In addition, the platform is open, extendable, and can be leveraged by others, facilitating both the integration of other geospatial technologies, as well as other enterprise IT and web services of many origins. Looking to the future, we see our platform strategy as being of great benefit and value to our users, partners, developers, and ultimately the world itself. It is already creating an ecosystem and community of GIS users who are leveraging each other’s resources and knowledge.
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I'm a bog fan of Geoff Zeiss's blog Between the Poles - H ehas a great review of the Eclipse Foundation Locationtech teleconference presentation by Matt Ford of Cesium Cesium is an open source 3D, 2.5 D and 2D globe visualisation toolkit written in webgl. Planned support for Openlayers is ont he roadmap which will make it a very interesting customizable alternative to Google Earth or WorldWind for specific applications. Click on the image or title to learn more.
Dubai Municipality to apply open geospatial standards for enterprise-wide GISAME InfoThe GIS Department at Dubai Municipality has recently organized a joint session for the project to apply the open geospatial standards of Geographical Information...
In what is rapidly becoming one of the most anticipated games releases in the simulation community - a little more info on the forthcoming SimCity release. IN this article and interview with Ocean Quigley of EA/Maxis quicly explains how the new SimCity simulation engine combines micro and macro simulation elements with each person, building and object will be simulated by the game's engine including individual sims that now have routines and lives and respond to the local events. Click on the image or title to learn more.
Having grown up relying on Ordance Survey maps for climbing and hill walking and hiking - I have a fond spot for the Ordanace Survey and their products. So this caught my eye from September 2012, the UK geospatial information agency, Ordnance Survey, will be launching a new international organisation, Ordnance Survey International. The aim is to provide advice and services across the full spectrum of Ordnance Survey’s expertise, including data collection and maintenance, product development and geospatial data management. Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB, director general and chief executive at Ordnance Survey added that “for some time the organisation has been approached by other national mapping agencies to provide guidance and share their expertise. Following encouragement by Ministers to export the skills, Ordnance Survey International has been set up to facilitate working with overseas customers who wish to seek our assistance. Click on image or title to learn more.
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