An interactive open source map showing public radio stations in the United States and Canada. Nice to know when on a long car trip. Don’t zoom out to far, I found the map slows down to a crawl and starts to trip up displaying the data. Other than that, very informative.
Super Bowl XLVIII will take place on Sunday, February 2, at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. See where the game will be played and explore a series of maps that will tell you everything you need to know about the NFL’s annual championship game. Explore everything from live temperature feeds and transportation infrastructure in the New York/New Jersey region to the 10 coldest Super Bowls of all time.
Some early adopters of ArcGIS 10.2.1 are reporting some problems. If you can wait, I would stick with 10.2 until a service pack is released for 10.2.1. Here are some comments that I have read in emails:
Sarasota County – Install the full release in a development environment first. Sarasota County GIS experienced difficulties with License Manager (port related), Web Adaptor (must remove existing arcgis site if you want to update it as arcgis again), Server (system and utilities tools have display touchy behavior changes if you want them hosted on say your GpCluster server(s). We are still working to move certain server tools such as Printing off of our mapCluster.
Merced County – Read the version notes and see if anything helps. If you don’t see a benefit then don’t upgrade. I am testing it on a my machine but I’ve already had issues with Model Builder Models acting differently. The geoprocessing tool works differently and will need to be upgraded in each of your models. I for one will not be updating server to 10.2.1 after hearing the news from Florida. I already did not plan on upgrading because this .1 release does not improve anything for my organization.
If you have installed 10.2.1, please add a comment so we all can learn from you!
Gotta love those robotic birds. The FAA predicted in 2012 that within 20 years time there could be as many as 30,000 drones flying over the US soil alone. Are you prepared to identify them? Get your survival guide today!
There is a free workshop for GIS Managers on February 10, 2014 hosted by the City of Pasadena. Registration is limited to public sector government agencies. The workshop is ideal for:
Topics covered include:
Take a look at the flyer and sign up! You can also register here.
Interesting article about thieves that steal rare books and maps from libraries, like this guy:
William Jacques, an oil-company accountant dubbed the “Tome Raider” by the British press, was jailed for stealing rare books by Newton, Thomas Paine and others from Cambridge University and other libraries in the 1990s. When he was released, he promptly stole books from the Royal Horticultural Society. Many books remain missing, and he is now banned from all U.K. libraries.
Read more here.
Over 30 years ago, a man worked on this maze for over 7 years and no one knew about it until now. It is probably unsolvable. Check it out.
Apparently you can purchase a copy, though it is in high demand and on backorder: http://shop.spoon-tamago.com/collections/new/products/papas-maze
A new smartphone app called EnLighten is telling drivers how long they might be waiting at traffic lights. Inventor Matt Ginsberg’s novel creation predicts when a red light will turn green.
January 17 will be the 20th anniversary of the Northridge earthquake in 1994 that killed more than 60 people, collapsed freeways and apartments, and remade the streetscape in several parts of town (and on the campus at UCLA.) Click the map for more info on the LA Observed blog.
Thanks goes to Kayla Folkins from the City of Pasadena for finding this one.
Demographic data down to the block level on DVD … and it’s free!
Availability: Summary File 1 is available as a two DVD set. The DVDs contain the 2010 Census Data Engine retrieval software allowing users to manipulate, display, and download data from the file.
Discs:
For more information and to order the free DVD set, visit this US Census page.
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