MapBox announces near real-time imagery coming soon

The world of imagery is changing...

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2013/07/mapbox-announces-near-real-time-imagery-coming-soon.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GoogleEarthBlog+%28Google+Earth+Blog%29&utm_content=FeedBurner

CBC Spark 199: Scouts, Apps, Maps

Have a listen to episode 199 of CBC spark.  It provides interesting insight into the future of collaborative digital mapping.  The episode covers the following topics:

Mapping the Canadian Arctic

• Google Canada blog post about Street View Imagery of Canada's Arctic

A History of Maps

• Jerry Brotton
• A History of the World in Twelve Maps
• Full Spark interview with Jerry Brotton

Digital Scout Troops

• Jon Kalish
• Jon talked about the Maker Scouts, Hacker Scouts,  Mothership Hacker Moms, DIY.org,and Adafruit Industries
• Other Spark stories by Jon Kalish DIY Living, Hacking the Library, and Digital Fabrication

In Defense of the Paper Map

• Other Spark stories by Michelle Parise
• You might also like this Spark story about Trap Streets from Edward Birnbaum

The Future of Maps

• Andrew Turner
• Full Spark interview with Andrew Turner

Additional Links

• We spoke to Gabe Boothroyd of the band Five Alarm Funk

ArcGIS Online for your Local Government

Some of you may be interested in this...

http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2013/07/24/arcgis-online-for-your-local-government/

Update on Canada’s Next Generation Open Data Portal

Nice to see SOME progress in Canada...

http://blog.gisuser.com/2013/06/21/update-on-canadas-next-generation-open-data-portal/

2013 Esri International User Conference Paper Sessions

Access papers and presentation materials from GIS professionals who shared best practices and case studies at the Esri User Conference.

Technical Workshop PPTs too!!

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc13/index.html

Changing Ways Cities Get Their Software

Some of this has been discussed at past CRP meetings...

http://www.govtech.com/applications/Inside-the-Civic-Hacking-Movement.html

Executive order for Open Data in the US Federal Government

This would seem to be a positive development...

http://geospatial.blogs.com/geospatial/2013/05/executive-order-makes-open-and-machine-readable-data-the-default-for-the-us-federal-government.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fzeissg%2Fgeospatial+%28Between+the+Poles%29&utm_content=FeedBurner

Save the Rain App Calculates Your Saved Water

Interesting use of open data...

http://blog.gisuser.com/2013/05/31/save-the-rain-app-calculates-your-saved-water-with-opendata-apps4ottawa-challenge/

Hawaii Uses Collaborate.org as its Data Sharing Backbone

Another Data Sharing Story...

http://www.govtech.com/geospatial/Hawaii-Uses-Collaborate-org-as-its-Data-Sharing-Backbone.html#continued

Alberta Open Data

Yay Province of Alberta!

http://data.alberta.ca/