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UK Politicians Realise the Importance of GIS

Details: 20 December 2011 | By Jamie Justham | 2657

thumb Cartocharts Senior politicians do not always appreciate the value of Geographic Information and Location Intelligence. With their minds now sharply focused on boundary changes for the UK Parliament, nothing brings home the importance of spatial analysis as clearly as the threat of losing some seats. In this article Jamie Justham, Chairman of Dotted Eyes, one of the UK’s leading GIS development houses, summarises how the recent and proposed legislation is being put into practice and its likely consequences.

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It's good that there are some clear rules being applied, and very interesting ho...

European Council of Spatial Planners

Details: 21 November 2011 | By João Teixeira | 1786

ECTP CEU_thumb Founded in 1985, ECTP-CEU (European Council of Spatial Planners-Conseil européen des urbanistes) brings together 25 professional town planning associations and institutes from 23 European countries as well as corresponding members. It is an umbrella association providing its members with a common framework for planning practice, planning education, continuing professional development and the definition of professional responsibilities.

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Using Supply Chain Management as a Tool to Manage GIS Projects

Details: 14 November 2011 | By Peter Schmitz | 2725

Supply chains include both upstream and downstream relationships involving goods, services and customers. The delivery of geographic information (GIS) will necessarily include each of these. The Supply-Chain Operation Reference (SCOR) Model can be used to interpret and understand geospatial supply chains. The mapping of the various processes will assist a GIS unit to understand the processes involved as well as providing a tool to measure the production.

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Mapping: The Dynamic Mapumental Tool

Details: 15 October 2011 | By Myfanwy Nixon | 3334

thumb mapumental Mapumental is a start up of mySociety, the organisation that builds award-winning non-profit websites and carries out commercial work for clients such the BBC, The Guardian, Google, and national and local government. In 2007 the project started develop prototypes for real time maps that could handle huge amounts of travel data. In 2009 it won an investment loan from Channel 4 and Screen West Midlands to build a prototype tool, and, in 2010, a full version of Mapumental.

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Why have you not replied to my earlier message?

Since everyone use that as open source geo-data set

Educational Portal for Spatial Planning

Details: 21 September 2011 | By Karel Janecka and Karel Charvat | 4499

thumb_logo Planning and mainly spatial planning deals with the spatial dimension of development. It is concerned not only with architecture but also with the place where people live and work. Spatial planning is one of the major challenges facing Europe. In the future it won’t be possible to solve planning problems of regional development without access to spatial knowledge. Good knowledge of environmental, economic and social aspects of sustainability is necessary. Spatial planning is the key issue for the territorial development in all the partners’ countries and in principle in all Europe.