Tag Archives: gis
Attributes, Subways and Elevators
Great story in today’s New York Times about maintenance/repair issues with subway elevators in the New York City Transit system. Umibot finds this interesting because it draws attention to the hidden world of attribute data. While spatial elements (station points, … Continue reading
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Urban Mapping in the News
Rafe Needleman’s Webware offers a concise overview of UMI’s neighborhood database product.
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How is Local Search Like Storm Tracking?
News from the National Weather Service that is sure to get (geo)data-wonks excited… From the National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Adminstration (parent agency of NWS), the current means of tracking severe weather events is done in the following manner: …The NWS … Continue reading
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Urban Mapping to Present at GeoWeb 2007
UMI’s Ian White will speak at GeoWeb 2007 in Vancouver, British Columbia, July 23-27, 2007. His talk, Web-based GIS or GIS-based Web?, will address how neogeographers have changed consumption habits of spatial data.
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The Centroid Gap, or the Death of the ZIP Code?
A several weeks ago we posted a few thoughts about the death of the ZIP code. There’s a lot more to say from the geo-perspective on local search, and here’s some more fodder… To give any data a geographic context, … Continue reading
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