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You may have watched the video that Esri’s Bill Davenhall gave at the TedMed Conference about linking your place history to your health. Now there’s a free iPhone and iPad app for that, with the new My Place History application. The iOS application allows you to pull together your place history along with details about [...]
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The idea of the Healing Cities Project comes from a coalition of health professionals and urban planners in Vancouver, BC that are focused on maximizing citizen health and wellness through the urban form. The idea is to create a framework that fully connects human beings’ physical, emotional and spiritual aspects to all dimensions of the [...]
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Canadian researchers at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, have created a global map of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) that can get past the body’s normal defenses and penetrate deep into the lungs. The researchers bridged the lack of surface-based air pollution sensors in the developing world by using satellite data from NASA’s Multi-angle Imaging [...]
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As with all major disasters over the past decade, GIS has been central to assessment and response of the Gulf Oil Spill. The role of GIS became apparent from the offset, with calls from BP to employ GIS experts for contract assignments. The word spread quickly about these open positions, but little has been heard [...]
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The next generation of GPS satellites just began existence late Thursday night with the launch of the new GPS 2F-1, a solar-powered satellite designed for a 12-year mission. This new satellite has twice the signal accuracy of previous navigation satellites, and the new constellation will also contain a next-generation international search and rescue system called [...]
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The U.S. Census Bureau has just released a report on Coastline Population Trends in the United States: 1960 to 2008, [PDF] that examines population trends along the country’s coast. The report comes on the eve of the hurricane season, and at a time when the oil spill is impacting this coastline. The findings show that [...]
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The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) has organized a survey of the streets of New York City in order to make the city more walkable for all generations. The event takes place throughout this week, and is being coordinated with the city council. The aim is to make street intersections and sidewalks safer, particularly [...]
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Mobile phones are increasingly a more viable platform for a human carried sensor web that requires no human input. The Department of Homeland Security’s Cell-All Initiative aims to create a cheap low-cost chemical sniffing sensor that could be added to cell phones and tuned to periodically sniff for certain volatile chemical compounds. If the cell [...]
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GeoMapNW, a joint effort between the University of Washington and the U.S. Geological Survey, is faced with budget cuts that may force its closure by the end of the month. The site offers detailed geologic maps that are used extensively by planners, builders and homeowners, revealing soil types and helping estimate potential earthquake damage. The [...]
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Today is World Water Day, with the theme, “Clean Water for a Healthy World.” Given other health care related news, the event’s emphasis on the water quality impacts on health on a global level seem very timely. You can find events that mark this day around the world on this map page. According to the [...]
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