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The government of Pakistan is set to approve the Land Surveying and Mapping Bill, according to the Business Recorder. The bill will set up the Survey of Pakistan as the national mapping agency and will require all firms engaged in surveying and mapping to register with the agency. The wording of the bill acknowledges the [...]
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Yesterday, Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar issues a secretarial order to ensure the integrity of the science and scientific products used in the Department’s decision making and policy development. This order is the first for any federal department in response to the Presidential Memorandum on Scientific Integrity that was released last March. The new [...]
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The German government met with Google and other Internet executives this week regarding their concerns about the privacy of personal geographical data. The concern arises primarily from the company’s StreetView technology, which has raised widespread concern in the country. Despite the unprecedented move by Google to allow any German property owner to opt-out of having [...]
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The Martin Prosperity Institute, a business policy and management research group at the University of Toronto, has recently conducted a survey of Toronto workers, focusing on their geographic spread across the city, and their connection to transit. The research takes a strong look at the service class of workers that make up a large majority [...]
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The brewing issue of China’s regulation of online mapping sites has me thinking about the benefits that these platforms provide beyond simply local search. If you haven’t heard already, China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping has started regulating online mapping sites in that country, and vows to shut down mapping sites if they aren’t [...]
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The Senate is finally reviewing The Livable Communities Act that was proposed last August by Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT). The act promotes livability grants for cities and the creation of an interagency office on sustainable communities. The House has been debating such a bill since February. In both, there would be moneys provided to municipalities [...]
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It’s a shame to read that Canadian climate research will likely continue to go unfunded, meaning the demise of the decade-old Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. This research entity has been working on studies related to climate change such as the melting arctic, the consequence of permafrost thaw, and the pattern of drought [...]
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The U.S. State Department launched a new data visualization site called Opinion Space yesterday. The online data visualization tool gives you the means to gauge how your own opinions stack up to those of others around the world. The visualization isn’t aligned to geographic space, but instead maps opinion space by showcasing the consensus and [...]
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Jane Lubchenco, the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), expressed an interest in creating a National Climate Service when she took office nearly a year ago, and this week that plan moved closer to reality with the formal outline of the Climate Service and the launch of a new Climate.gov website.The site [...]
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There’s a 590-page Budget Justifications document (PDF) available that outlines the proposed U.S. Geological Survey budget changes that was forwarded to me by Learon Dalby (@LearonDalby). On page 225 of this document the proposed cut of $3.5 Million to the National Map partnerships is discussed and lamented: “For 2011, the USGS proposes to reduce the [...]
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