North Carolina Aerial Photography to Improve 911 Service in 100 Counties

Now this is a fairly large orthophoto project:

http://m.govtech.com/a/Aerial-Photography-911-Service-100-Counties-119289344.html

Oregon, Montana, Utah and Colorado Partner to Share GIS Data in the Cloud

Here's an interesting example of several US States working together to share GIS data in the Cloud:

http://m.govtech.com/a/Oregon-Montana-Utah-and-Colorado-Partner-to-Share-GIS-Data-in-the-Cloud-134834123.html

Make Open Data Happen

For those considering an Open Data policy, the following article from Vancouver's perspective could provide some helpful guidelines:

http://www.geoplace.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=MultiPublishing&mod=PublishingTitles&mid=13B2F0D0AFA04476A2ACC02ED28A405F&tier=4&id=F213086858824D0096F05B483DF6AA30

OpenID

This concept might be something your organization would consider:

http://openid.net/get-an-openid/what-is-openid/

Two Open Source Extensions for ArcGIS

Users with the ArcView level of ArcGIS might find these tools useful. The one tool permits functionality that normally requires ArcSDE and other expensive applications to connect to a spatial database.

http://www.terragis.net/2012/02/01/spatialkit-and-sextante-for-arcgis-desktop/

Future Proof Your Web Map Service Choice

Recently Google announced changes in the way Google Maps can be used by organizations. Here's one perspective:

http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2012/01/13/best-way-to-future-proof-your-web-map-service-choice-could-be-mapstraction/

Open standards for sharing electric power usage data

Change is coming...

http://geospatial.blogs.com/geospatial/2011/12/open-standards-for-sharing-electric-power-usage-data.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fzeissg%2Fgeospatial+%28Between+the+Poles%29

Free Processing Tools for ESRI software

For those of you with Arcview licenses, these tools can expand your processing options and for those with ArcEditor or ArcInfo there are still some useful tools here:

http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2011/nov/14/news2.html

Pictometry Launches New Sketch Verification Report for Assessors

Some of you have access to Pictometry data and might find this interesting:

http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2011/dec/07/news2.html

Metadata Tips and Tricks

Further to our discussion at the last Technical Committee meeting, I found a free, 60 minute Tips and Tricks training seminar on the ESRI training website on Metadata.

http://training.esri.com/gateway/index.cfm?fa=catalog.webCourseDetail&courseid=1272