GIS

Can the 'Wikipedia of Maps' Challenge Google?

Google starts charging for its maps, and an open source alternative -- with support from Microsoft -- begins to challenge Google's dominance.

29 December 2011 - 5:00am

MIT Technology Review

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GIS Whizzes Get Antarctica on Google Maps

The editor of the Antarctic Sun says that while Antarctica has always been viewable in Google Maps, the imagery was "about as sharp as the graphics in Pong." The folks at the Polar Geospatial Center came to the rescue.

14 December 2011 - 9:00am

United States Antarctic Program

How the U.N. Uses GIS to Manage Humantarian Responses

Two planners with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reveal how they use GIS to coordinate their efforts, using the recent tsunami and earthquake in Japan as an example.

24 September 2011 - 1:00pm

Directions Magazine

Mapping Seattle's Bikeability

Comparing Seattle to Portland, transportation planner Adam Parast used GIS data to show the most bikeable parts of the city.

22 December 2010 - 5:00am

Ballard New Tribune

Using Crowds, and GPS, to Chart Roadkill

Ron Ringen has logged more than 1,400 animals for a roadkill project. "I'm almost a fanatic with it," he said. "You get hooked."

13 September 2010 - 10:00am

The New York Times

The Evolution of GIS

Thomas L. Millette looks back at how far GIS has come, and how it has become an essential tool for urban planning.

6 April 2010 - 9:00am

Planning Commissioners Journal

GIS Meets Architecture

This article from Architect looks at how GIS is integrating itself into the toolbox of architects.

21 March 2010 - 9:00am

Architect

Engaging Communities, Improving Neighborhoods

Dr. Marc Schlossberg of the University of Oregon developed a series of tools for mobile GIS devices, and set community members loose to use the technology to collect data about their streets and improve their neighborhood livability.

8 March 2010 - 5:00am

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Representing and Understanding the City Graphically

Columnist Jeanne Haffner goes hands-on to learn how graphic representation is used in the day-to-day work of planning.

19 February 2010 - 5:00am

Next American City

What Can GIS Do For You?

Allison Arieff takes a look at some of the ways GIS and other data-visualization technologies can help to address urban problems.

4 February 2010 - 6:00am

NYTimes: Opinionator Blog

Mapping Municipal Discrimination

GIS maps are being used to identify where communities need services -- and whether some communities are victims of municipal discrimination.

29 December 2009 - 1:00pm

Miller-McCune

GIS on the Chisholm Trail

A profile of James Mallory, GISP, whose job in the Oklahoma County assessor's office sometimes involves using GIS to locate historic trails and treasure.

18 September 2009 - 9:00am

The Journal Record (OK)

Mapping Software That Isn't Just Google Maps Plus

MIT researcher Jeffrey Warren has just released the latest version of Cartagen, a software platform for interactive mapping. Julia Galef takes a look.

15 August 2009 - 5:00am

Metropolis Magazine

Visualizing and Analyzing Plans with CityCAD

Planning technology expert Charles A. Donley reviews a new piece of software that combines the worlds of Computer-Aided Design and Geographic Information Systems to help site planners visualize and analyze their plans.

30 July 2009 - 9:00am

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Jeffrey Barg

Anybody For Some Duck Duck Goose?: Planning School, Semester Two Begins

Sun, 01/18/2009 - 07:37

On Friday, in the first week of my second semester of planning graduate school, we did the hokey-pokey. We put our right foot in, put our right foot out, put our right foot in, and then we shook it all about. We turned ourselves around. That was what it was all about.

The demonstration was all about pointing out common ground and how people were rooted in order to approach problem solving and conflict resolution. It sounds a little squishy, I know. But it got the point across, and more important, it introduced the dance to one international student who had never heard of the hokey-pokey.

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