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Climate Change | Resources
this is ESRI website on climate change. It has links to lots of data and information on geographic and spatial analysis related to climate change.
OPS - INCAP Instituto de Nutrición de Centro América y Panamá - INCAP presenta el Sistema de Información para la Vigilancia, Monitoreo y Evaluación de la SAN
this is the new Atlas for Central America. it includes maps of stunting underweight and overweight. It also gives the tabular data. The application includes the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
OPS - INCAP Instituto de Nutrición de Centro América y Panamá - INCAP presenta el Sistema de Información para la Vigilancia, Monitoreo y Evaluación de la SAN
there is a new system are monitoring food security in Central America. Looks interesting.
Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR)
The International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR) publishes research that exemplifies the usage of geographic information science and technology (GIS&T) to explore and resolve geographical issues from various application domains within the social and/or physical sciences. IJAGR is designed to provide planners and policy analysts, practitioners, academicians, and others using GIS&T useful studies that might support decision-making activities.
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The International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR) publishes research that exemplifies the usage of geographic information science and technology (GIS&T) to explore and resolve geographical issues from various application domains within the social and/or physical sciences. IJAGR is designed to provide planners and policy analysts, practitioners, academicians, and others using GIS&T useful studies that might support decision-making activities.
A Web-Based GIS for Health Care Decision-Support
Describes a Web based system for renal disease (kidneys), to match offers of care with demand for care.
Jawoo's dropper tool
A very cool tool that shows current and future climates from Worldclim data - in a Google Maps tool ....includes monthly table and graphic.....Good Job Jawoo!
Open Journals in Geography and geospatial technologies - VerySpatial
Great listing of open-access geography journals....
Brian Flood : Arc2Earth Cloud Services
perhaps where the future of Google Earth/GIS is going...
Portal de búsqueda, visualización y descarga de información y datos espaciales
Geonetwork site for Ecuador
LAC- Poverty Maps
THIS page has a comprehensive list of poverty maps for LAC. But it does not give the full reference.
Google Earth used by terrorists in India attacks
Lots of issues here. Free speech. National security. Also, the concept from McLuhan, the medium is the message. Google argues that maps have been used for humanitarian purposes (Maps don't kill people, people kill people).
MapMyPage - The fastest, easiest way to add Google Maps to any website
This page tells you how to put Google Maps into your web site or blog
Editorial Observer - Map Upon Map - New Dimensions in What Maps Can Do - NYTimes.com
I started using GIS in 1988. This guy is just now discovering what some of us have known for 20 years or more. I like the discussion of how we think about the environment around us. In GIS, this is topology, something that many users of the technology may
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I could, if I put my mind to it, lay down a map of all the fencing on my farm, where the posts stand, where the wires intersect, where the electricity enters and where the repairs are needed. I could map out the circular spots where the pigs have lived over the years, as if they were ancient settlements. But in the end I would only be mapping it for myself, and the map I need is already in my head.
GIS and privacy issues
good overview article on the many issues related to privacy and GIS
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