Capital Regional District Geodocument Management System

The Capital Regional District on Vancouver Island is using an interesting system for sharing information across their region. You can read about it in the following article:

https://www.esricanada.com/documents/Web-Based_Geodocument_Management1.pdf

Open Source Trip Planning Tool

Happy New Year Everyone!

This Open Source trip planner shown by the City of Portland might be something some of you could use utilizing your data.

http://mapperz.blogspot.com/2010/12/opentripplanner-portland.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mapperz+%28Mapperz+GIS+News+Blog%29

free data resource

Hi everyone;

Just thought I'd pass along this nifty resource I found the other day:

www.naturalearthdata.com

It's a collection of public domain, global GIS data sets. The catalogue is pretty extensive and very current.

It's probably too coarse to be of much use to many of you for municipal level mapping, but may be of value if you're looking to make smaller-scale maps (e.g. reference maps to show where in the world you're located).

Hope to see you all tomorrow at the RGIS Strat Plan Workshop.

Take care,
greg

More on Open Data

Hi everyone;

Check out this post from Cybera, my neighbours in the Research Park - they're launching an online biogeoscience portal, and a campaign to open us access to water data.

here's the link!

Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority Releases Real Time Data

What is quite amazing about this example of publicly available data is the number of mobile applications that have been developed by the public.

http://blog.gisuser.com/?p=8142

City of Calgary Public Data Catalogue

FYI

http://calgaryonlinestore.com/publicdata.asp

Free CAD Editing Software

If any of you do not have CAD software and need to edit CAD files this free application might be for you:

http://giscadblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/free-cad-editing-in-draftsight-and.html

Online Community for GIS Users

For anyone interested in a spatial social networking site:

http://www.gisdomain.com/

GNSS 3D Mission Planning Tool

For anyone doing GPS field work a new free tool:

http://www.vector1media.com/vectorone/?p=6704

GIS / CAD Interoperability

Hello Everyone,

This might interest some of you:

http://giscadblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/arcgis-for-autocad-250-and-other-new.html