The 2009 budget released by the Government of Canada includes an economic stimulus plan called Canada’s Economic Action Plan, which outlines almost C$12 billion in new infrastructure funding. It is intended to create or maintain […]
According to ComputerWorld, state legislator Joel Anderson of the California Legislature has introduced a bill to limit the detail shown in imagery on web mapping applications such as Google Earth, and presumably, Yahoo Maps, and […]
Every year Fastcompany chooses 50 companies that they consider to have been the most innovative over the past year. This year as number one they chose Team Obama that “took a skinny kid with a […]
Jason Birch’s latest blog introduces a pretty cool feature of the latest pre-release of MapGuide Maestro. MgCooker supports pre-seeding tile caches, and can be run from the command line or through the Maestro GUI.
Called A Dashboard for the Economy, this is on Geocommons and is just too cool to miss. It tracks stimulus spending, job creation, foreclosures, and other economic factors at a very detailed level, by town […]
President Obama and Transportation Secretary LaHood have just announced the release of $27 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to the states to create upgrade transporation infrastructure including $17.7 billion geographically unrestricted $4.3 […]
According to FederalComputerWeek toward the end of February the The US House of Representatives passed a $410 billion 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act, H.R.1105. The bill would fund $151.8 billion for labor, health and education $20.5 […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has formed the Spatial Law and Policy Committee (SLPC). Increasingly, public and private sector users and data and technology vendors have to be prepared for a wide range of legal […]