Rob's GIS Blog

NLT Staff Showcases Real Time GIS Tools at National Hurricane Conference

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:21:00 GMT

NLT staff Showcases OnTheMap for Emergency Management at the National Hurricane Conference in Orlando FL.

NLT Contributes to Census Bureau’s Local Employment Dynamics Annual Workshop

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:54:00 GMT

March 2012 - NLT Team contributes to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Annual Partnership Workshop in Arlington VA. The workshop convenes federal and state Labor Market Information agencies to discuss latest developments in the field of local labor market economics and the Census data products.

Tags: GIS,Census,Dynamics,Emergency Management,Real Time

Census Bureau Releases OnTheMap Version 6

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:34:00 GMT

NLT team helps the Census Bureau release OnTheMap Version 6 January 26, 2012. OnTheMap is the Census Bureau's premier web-based mapping and reporting application for performing historical and geographic workforce and labor market analysis.

Tags: Census,Workforce,Web GIS

Mapping Patterns of Social Connectedness

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:05:00 GMT

MIT Senseable City Lab, AT&T Labs-Research and IBM Research Researchers are mapping patterns of social connectedness across the U.S. based on anonymous and aggregated cell phone interactions data. Interesting !!

White House Proposes Executive Branch Reorganization

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:26:00 GMT

The white house today annouced an interesting proposal to reorganize a number of federal agencies to better meet the economic and business needs of the nation and improve effeciency.

Natural Hazards & Social Vulnerability

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:00:00 GMT

The Hazards & Vulnerability Research Institute at the University of South Carolina Geography Department has put together an interesting national Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI®) which measures the social vulnerability of every U.S. county to environmental hazards.

Measuring & Mapping Water-related Risks

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:33:00 GMT

The World Resources Institute, in conjunction with several corporate sponsors, has developed Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas, an very cool web-based dashboard style GIS tool for measuring and mapping global water-related risks.

Tags: Web-based GIS,Water Resources Mapping,Sustainable Data Input Strategies