Gowanus Canal Superfund contraversy; new GeoServer Release; NYS Passes on Google/MS Online Map & GIS help soldiers learn about their patrol areas

Wow, spring is officially here in NYC. The Tribeca Film Festival is in full effect and its nice enough to ride bikes to work.

Gowanus Canal superfund contraversy!

A Univ. of Maryland GIS grad student gets crowned Miss College Park.

There's a new GeoServer release. I'd love to check it out since I'm a sucker for UI's (because I'm terrible at terminals and coding).

from All Points Blog:

NYC Passes on Google/MS Online Map Apps; Writes App "from Scratch"

Colin Reilly, director of citywide GIS for New York's Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications (DoITT) explains in a Government Technology article that writing its NYCityMap2.0 with a reusable framework was the way to go. "Using an off-the-shelf mapping application, like Google Earth, would have been the wrong fit, Reilly remarked..." - more here.

When soldiers are deployed the geographic knowledge of the outgoing soldiers is often lost.
Learn about how GIS is helping soldiers in Iraq learn about their patrol zones faster and more in depth from O'Reilly's Where 2.0.