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Archives for September 20, 2011

U Ottawa’s Barry Wellar Inducted into GIS Hall of Fame

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Via the UVic CAG list, details of  recognition by Dr. Wellar by URISA – The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) established the GIS Hall of Fame in 2005 to recognize and honor the most esteemed leaders of the geospatial community. To be considered for the GIS Hall of Fame, an individual’s or an organization’s record of contribution to the advancement of the industry demonstrates creative thinking and actions, vision and innovation, inspiring leadership, perseverance, and community mindedness. Few individuals are more deserving of this honour than Dr. Barry Wellar. His nearly 50 years of active and sustained work in the geographic information system (GIS) and related fields are filled with accomplishments and contributions to the industry and the community of GIS technology users. His roles as a researcher, teacher, GIS practitioner and manager, and consultant have focused on practical applications of GIS and other information technologies to problems and challenges faced by public agencies and private sector companies.

See Details http://www.urisa.org/hall/Wellar

Update on the Migration of Geodata.gov to Data.gov

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The team at Geodata.gov has announced that the migration to Data.gov is well underway and will officially take effect on September 30, 2011, at that time all traffic hitting geodata.gov will be automatically redirected to the new home at Data.gov. According to Geodata.gov, “This starts another exciting new chapter in Open Government, and the evolution to make government data more accessible and usable than before.”

You may be wondering, What will be different about publishing your geospatial datasets to Data.gov?

The Response: Up until now, Data.gov has been receiving Federal, downloadable, geospatial datasets through flagging of these selected datasets within the GOS metadata management interface. These existing flags for sharing datasets with Data.gov will be maintained through the transition process. Additionally, Data.gov will accept a wider variety of content type than just downloadable data, to include live data and map services. After the migration is completed, it will be a good time to do some cleanup and maintenance of old records.

See more details in this official announcement

Checkin at Social Media Week With The Nokia Foursquare Vending Machine

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There’s been some clever uses of the foursquare API to date, however, this one just may take the cake… or the candy bar in this case! The clever “Heads” at 1000Heads and the always innovating minds at Nokia have dropped a way cool bombshell on the attendees of a Social Media Week event in Glasgow (See http://socialmediaweek.org/) – The Nokia Gift Machine. Here’s the deal, attendees of the SMW event in Glasgow can stop by the machine and Checkin with Foursquare – hopefully using a cool Nokia N9, N8, or similarly impressive smartphone! Once the checkin has been received (I have to assume by selecting the “Nokia Gift Machine venue) the guest then waits to hear a “thud”. Then the lucky checkin recipient can slide open the door of the vending machine and grab the reward… likely a candy bar, however, there’s also a few Nokia smartphones inside as well! Way cool…  Source of inspiration, AllAbout foursquare


The Nokia Gift Machine from 1000heads on Vimeo.

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