Today is the last day to sign up for ESRI Training at Columbia State in Columbia TN. The class is next week, May 5-6 and the course is Intro to ArcGIS I. Cost is $750. Sign up at our website.
from the MSNBC website http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24306434
These two satellite images made available by DigitalGlobe show a site in Syria that the U.S. claims was a nuclear plant before and after a Sept. 6 Israeli airstrike. The left image is from Aug. 5, and the image at right is from Oct. 24. U.S. intelligence officials laid out evidence to Congress on Thursday that they said showed Syria was building the nuclear reactor with North Korean help.
Approximately two miles of Interstate 40 in Knoxville will be closed to all traffic for 14 months as TDOT’s SmartFIX40 program gets going. SmartFIX is TDOT’s accelerated repair program which requires a portion of a highway or interstate to be fully closed. This provides a faster turnaround time by maximizing the construction window to a full 24 hours when necessary. TDOT has been getting people ready by advertising (Dolly Parton has a PSA on TV about it) and by setting up detours in advance. If you are traveling east/west or west/east on 40 through Knoxville, you’ll need to take I-640 across the top of the city which only delays the trip by a few minutes.
If you’ve traveled through Knoxville at all in the last several years, you’ve seen the need for repairs and probably seen existing construction. This road closure will be between Exits 388A (James White Parkway) and 389 (Hall of Fame Drive) on I-40.
A few links for those traveling regularly through the area.
from the ESRI Mapping Center website:
Mapping Center is about the use of ArcGIS in the graphic delivery of geographic information. Its goal is to help you make great looking maps by using the same cartographic concepts and techniques that professional cartographers use.
After exploring the site, I found there are really good suggestions and tips on map
creation as well as all the cartography basics. The ESRI Mapping Center is a great resource for those GIS professionals who want to add that extra touch to their map layouts. There is even an “Ask a Cartographer” link where you can ask questions about your own map layouts. You can also download Data, Styles, Expressions, Models & Scripts, .MXD’s, etc. for sample maps posted on the site.
- Public Safety official cited for data tampering after GIS technician learns all Krispy Kreme locations were removed from GIS database. Apparently, the GPS units installed in the city squad cars were more accurate than expected and left a sticky trail… your local news is next…
- Man dies of complications after a botched attempt at 3d modeling… apparently there was a mixup with what to wear at the photo shoot… more after Leno…
- Google Maps developer kidnapped by ESRI kingpin.. more after the break…
- Streaker caught by Google’s street view imaging camera denies any wrong doing… claims he was just out looking for a towel… requests Google keep it there or he’ll sue… film at 11
- County Man holding city employees hostage after failed attempts at Internet property searching… more after the break…
If you would like to add to our Headlines list above, feel free to leave it in the comments section. Thanks.
SERUG is well underway here in Jacksonville. Wakeup temps are cooler than normal for this part of the country. Ate lunch in the Landing yesterday. About 650 people are here. Had a great opening social here in the conference exhibit area last night. Today is packed with sessions of all kinds. The only shocker was arriving to find out that booth tables and chairs are extra this year and are not cheap. This will be my only negative feedback for the conference as an exhibitor. Otherwise, everything is excellent. There is talk that maybe next year’s SERUG conference will be in our very own Nashville.
Oh yeah. Don’t forget to get your taxes in by the end of today.
The City of Lebanon is now live with their very own GEOpowered Interactive Mapping site. Lebanon is the latest Wilson County city to come online with city-specific data in addition to Wilson County basemap data. This site will make it very easy for residents and city officials to quickly find useful city and property information with just a couple of clicks.
Want to find out when the next Mosquito spraying will occur in your neighborhood? How about when the next pickup and chipper service will be driving through? Interested in the zoning code for your property? You can find that and more with a visit to the Lebanon GEOpowered Interactive Mapping site.
Come visit GEO-Jobe at the Hyatt in Jacksonville at this year’s SERUG conference. We are in booth 500 and will have demonstrations of GEOpowered as well as all things ESRI.
Conference Exhibit Hall Hours
Monday, April 14th, 4pm to 7pm – Open, social
Tuesday, April 15th, 8:30am to 3:30pm – Open
In an effort to lighten up a little from all things GIS, I present some of my favorite Albert Einstein’s quotes.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. (Sign hanging in Einstein’s office at Princeton)
And my favorite not actually from Einstein…
You’re aware the boy failed my grade school math class, I take it? And not that many years later he’s teaching college. Now I ask you: Is that the sorriest indictment of the American educational system you ever heard? [pauses to light cigarette.] No aptitude at all for long division, but never mind. It’s him they ask to split the atom. How he talked his way into the Nobel prize is beyond me. But then, I suppose it’s like the man says, “It’s not what you know… (Karl Arbeiter: former teacher of Albert Einstein)
USDA Rural Development is providing a massive loan to a Colorado based firm to provide wireless services across 17 states and 518 rural communities. The service won’t be free. Prices are going to be comparable with other providers in urban/suburban areas.
Not sure of the impact, if any, this will have on TN. As we’ve posted here before with research done by ConnectedTN, bringing this technology into rural areas is a plus for all. The cow in the picture snubbed his nose at the idea, but that was partly because he didn’t understand the benefits to the cow population.
“Portable, high-speed connectivity provides new options to help create business expansion in rural communities,” Rural Development Under Secretary Thomas C. Dorr noted. “Communities that lack broadband are often bypassed for new economic development investments. Broadband is as important today as providing rural telephone service was 75 years ago, and we’re proud of our role in fostering public-private partnerships to bring broadband services to rural America.”
The project is slated to take place over the next five years. Will this help your community?
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