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Archives for July 2011

Jack Dangermond on Open Data, Community GIS and Geography For All

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This video may be from a year ago, however, it serves as a great primer to anyone interested in Open Data, Open Gov, and making data, geography, and the science of geography accessible to all. Enjoy Jack as he delivers his presentation at Gov2.0 2010 – Jack Dangermond and Bernard Szukalski, “Open Data and the Future of …”



Video – Accela Mobile on iPad Helps Mobilize e-Government

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I had a chance at the esriuc this year to catch up with the Accela team and get a first hand look at their mobile (iOS) solutions for government.  Below we have a demo of the Accela Mobile solution, designed to connect departments within local government  and streamline your data collection and data management. Accela also has a streamlined, 311 system – see more at http://accela.com/

T-Mobile Offering Up Value Plans

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Some interesting new plans and pricing are coming from T-Mobile, and they include data, lots of it! For example, in their latest announcement some new options come into effect July 24. The Value plans offer single-line and multiline options with a range of price points for talk, unlimited text and unlimited data with 2 GB, 5 GB or 10 GB of high-speed data — with no data overage charges. An example, T-Mobile’s new Value family plan with unlimited talk, unlimited text and unlimited data with 2 GB of high-speed data is just $49.99 per line for two lines – customers could add an overage-free mobile broadband Value plan to their voice service for $19.99 per month with 2 GB of high-speed data for products. See More information on T-Mobile’s service plans is available at http://www.t-mobile.com or checkout the plans HERE

esriuc / ACSM Video Looks At The Convergence of Surveying and GIS

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This video shot on location at the ACSM Esri Survey Summit in San Diego features Randy Noland and Colleagues Joe Sass, and Marco Cecala as they discuss the convergence of GIS and surveying and get into the topics of data accuracy, evolution of software, and Esri’s perceived view of these topics. This is part 1 of a 3 Part video series and all 3 videos can be found online HERE



B.C Canada Opens Government Data Portal To All @data_BC

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Thank goodness I follow @daeaves on Twitter else I may not have even been aware that the Province of Bitish Columbia (where I live)  has rolled out their open data portal at http://www.data.gov.bc.ca/ – the first of it’s kind in Canada. From the portal, DataBC will have about 2500 sets of data to start. This data is free, searchable and available for everyone to use.

The site puts data  front and center although there are other resources that they make available, including a list of useful open mapping resources and government web services  (like GeoCommons), and quite interesting, a suggested list of apps built on open data. Finally, there’s also some suggested community resources, including a pointer to their Twitter account @data_BC as well as a blog for information about plans and updates. The Data catalog already has 100s of sources of data, most available as XLS or CSV files for quick download.



Save The Date – WhereCamp SoCal 2 To Hit Santa Monica August 26-27

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Here’s a geoGeek meetup of interest to anyone in SoCal or interested in heading to Socal next month… Event Details: WhereCamp SoCal – Friday, August 26th (evening) – Saturday, August 27th Google Santa Monica Office  Santa Monica, CA

About the event – Tentative plan is for scheduled Ignite talks Friday evening followed by unscheduled sessions Saturday. This event picks up where the team left off last year at  WhereCamp SoCal which took place July 17-18, 2010 in San Diego

The goal of WhereCamp is to simply encourage social cross pollination of ideas between developers, makers, artists. By being totally free to participants it can attract voices who otherwise simply cannot afford to speak. It is a complement to Where20 in that it provides the kind of time to really dwell on and examine a topic.

Check it out at http://wherecampsocal.org/ See also this Google Group of interest

Social Media & Events – Top 10 Twitter users of #esriuc by number of impressions

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During the esriuc conference, social media played a huge roll bringing attendees together, and perhaps most important, connecting attendeees with users around the Globe who were watching and taking part from their desktop. I’m still crunching some numbers and performing some research, however, some initial findings on the “Klout” of the social contributors are pretty interesting, although not totally surprising. For example, the discussion continues as there have been 127 tweets that generated 86,698 impressions, reaching an audience of 55,713 followers within the past 24 hours on the hashtag #esriuc. So, who was tweeting, and perhaps more important, reaching the masses?

Here’s a quick run-down of  Top 10 Twitter users of #esriuc by number of impressions

  1. gisuser: 23,424
  2. esri: 21,742
  3. esriuc: 15,444
  4. jiriteach: 8,168
  5. _awny: 2,392
  6. lindahecht: 2,314
  7. cageyjames: 2,310
  8. geothinkers: 2,235
  9. esrisuptinfo: 1,760
  10. directionsmag: 1,736

Top 10 by number of followers

  1. esri: 10,871
  2. gisuser: 5,855
  3. esriuc: 3,860
  4. _awny: 2,390
  5. cageyjames: 2,311
  6. geothinkers: 2,235
  7. directionsmag: 1,735
  8. spatialsustain: 1,390
  9. hydrography: 1,186
  10. lindahecht: 1,15

More number crunching and social media analysis coming soon… Note: I was also active on Twitter myself as @gletham however, for this event I elected to do most posting via our @GISuser account.

Interesting Numbers Seen, Heard and Spoken at esriuc

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I’m a fan of numbers and every year when I return from the annual Esri User Conference something that always jumps out at me as very interesting are the numbers.  So, in pouring over my notes, here’s just a sampling of some interesting numbers… enjoy! Got a number to share with me? Ping me on Twitter @gletham

A few Number of interest:

  • 10.1 – ArcGIS 10.1 is the next version of the company’s suite planned for release. the 10.1 Beta will be open to all customers and should kick off by the end of July 2011.
  • 25 – Clint Brown of Esri recall his first ESRIUC in 1983 where there were about 25 people in attendance.
  • 10,858 – At the time of writing @esri had 10,858 followers

See More in A Spotlight On Some Interesting Numbers Seen, Heard and Spoken at the Event


Connect Your Google+ to facebook and Twitter with Agent G

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Have you had a chance to mess around with Google+ a bit now? IF so here’s a handy tip that will enable you to post directly within google+ and sync directly to your facebook and Twitter account. A couple of short steps are required, first you’ll need to Add “Agent G” to a circle in Google plus. Then, proceed directly to this Agent G resource. See complete instructions provided at http://gplus.sagg.im/ where you can connect your Twitter, fb and identica accounts by simply following the brief instructions. Try a test then voila… More on this can also be found in this post on RWW


Provide your FB account with permission

Posting from within Google +


The post as seen on my fb wall


the resulting post as seen on Twitter

FYI, you can follow yours truly on google+ simply by searching gletham

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