JOSE DIACONO Good cartography for online mapping is about what you show, how you show it and how fast. No matter how current and correct your GIS information, such distractions as slow display, spidery fonts, obscure icons or cluttered symbology will turn off an increasingly demanding public. They just need answers. Unfortunately, however, it is […]
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GIS for Participatory Government
DEREK TICKNER G-Government describes the combination of GIS and Web 2.0 technologies to improve government services. It is a subset of e-government. Government agencies host map web portals so that citizens can readily find information. Increasingly, individuals are uploading data and ideas to the government. As with Wikipedia, you can consume and contribute information. […]
Best of the Blogs 15 January 2013
With Summer heating up the Sydney Morning Herald has run a piece on the ‘Nerve centre at heart of Australian fires’ – the GIS systems at the headquarters of the NSW Rural Fire Service. And speaking of fires, the Converstion has a piece that tries to put the recent Tasmanian bushfires into perspective […]
Best of the blogs 31/01/12
Vector One points us to a history of cadastral mapping in Queensland, as published by the Queensland Government. Well worth a look. http://www.vector1media.com/vectorone/?p=9148 The Telegraph in the UK is reporting that a special summit has been called by the British government to address the issues that outdated maps on consumer’s GPS units are causing. The […]
