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August
August 4: The Last LIO Blog
Welcome to the last LIO Blog, and thanks to all of you who visited and especially to those of you who provided comments, both on the site and to me personally. It was fun.
May
May 25: Geography and Privacy: Are Ontarians Concerned?
GeoConnections recently released the results of a 2009 Study which examined Canadians’ concerns with privacy and the use of geospatial technology. The study involved a workshop, 29 face-to-face interviews, and 2,200 20-minute telephone interviews. Overwhelmingly, respondents indicated that they were very concerned about their privacy and had grave concerns about their whereabouts being revealed, especially in real time.
May 3: The Joys of Metadata Management
As a geospatial professional, have you been exposed to the term Metadata a little more than you would like? Do you really know what it is and do you personally believe that it really makes a difference? In a world where a Google search seems to find anything you want, why go to all the effort of cataloguing your data?
March
March 29: What to Do When StatsCan Geography Doesn’t Fit
Have you ever ordered or used custom census geography to do analysis? How did the geography fit? If you could do it over again, would you have used a different method for establishing the smallest units of census geometry?
March 1: Emergency Management and GIS
Does your organization have a disaster management plan and, if so, does it include the use of GIS and geospatial data? Does your Business Continuity Plan include keeping an offline copy of the all the geographic data you might need in an emergency? Do you have all the agreements in place you will need to allow your organization to legally share data? Have you tried a simulation? If you have, what did you learn? Are you ready?
February
February 4: Municipal Land Use and GIS
Have you automated a municipal land use plan? Do you see any merit in converting free-form text documents to structured tables? What are the implications and is it even possible? Read more…
January
January 11: Can Geomatics Fight Crime?
Is there a case for collecting, storing, and especially cataloguing, detailed data on insects and plant species and water composition to the level that it could help solve crimes? Do you worry about Freedom of Information legislation to the point that you would rather not know than suffer having the information be made public? Do you follow standards? Do you find that following standards sound nice, but are a hard sell at the best of times? Read more…
December
December 18: What Makes a Community “Intelligent”?
The Intelligent Community Forum recently named Fredericton, NB “among the seven most intelligent communities in the world”. I asked a friend of mine visiting Fredericton the other day, and who is knowledgeable on the subject, to check it out. Read more…
November
November 30: Can Public Sector Organizations Rely on Public Data
Geospatial data users, including the general public, want to participate in making the data that they use better. The mass market geo-providers are actively responding: Google has a site called “Map Maker”, Navteq has an online tool called “Map Reporter”, both of which are designed to accept submissions from users. Read more…
November 24: It’s Here!
Hi! Welcome to the first LIO Blog. As the coordinator of Land Information Ontario I work directly with hundreds of private and public sector organizations that create, manage and use digital geographic information. Read more…
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