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	<title>Spatial Sustain</title>
	
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	<description>Promoting Spatial Design for a Sustainable Tomorrow</description>
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		<title>Is GeoDesign an activity, a practice or a software-enabled modeling approach?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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The concept of GeoDesign involves a more interactive interface to geospatial layers with the means for sketching and design upon those layers in a collaborative way while contributing and interacting with an evolving intelligent model. The concept itself isn&#8217;t new, but various technology pieces have been missing, and the enabling software is now being worked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flickr Hosts Environmental Imagery Collection from the 1970s</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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The photo sharing site Flickr is hosting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency&#8217;s Documerica Project from the 1970s. The project ran from 1971-1977, with freelance photographers hired to take images related to environmental problems. There are more than 15,000 photos archived on the site.
Read more related Spatial Sustain posts:Google Unveils Forest Monitoring ApplicationUSGS Director Promotes the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The State Department Launches Opinion Space</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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The U.S. State Department launched a new data visualization site called Opinion Space yesterday. The online data visualization tool gives you the means to gauge how your own opinions stack up to those of others around the world. The visualization isn&#8217;t aligned to geographic space, but instead maps opinion space by showcasing the consensus and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geomatics Program at Sri Lankan University Suffers Despite High Demand</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As geospatial practitioners in the developed world struggle with data management issues, and the challenges of keeping software updated with the latest releases, it&#8217;s helpful to see a developing world perspective in order to understand more profound challenges. There&#8217;s a story in the Sri Lankan Daily Mirror today that outlines the challenges of students in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Census Recounts Each of the 23 Headcounts in the Nation’s History</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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The U.S. Census Bureau is hard at work on the 2010 Census, fighting technological hurdles and an apparent malaise about being counted. In order to highlight the tradition of the these population counts that occur ever 10 years, the agency has put together some highlights for each of the 23 counts that have taken place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House Ushers in an Era of Web Service Challenges</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Borrowing from federal CIO Vivek Kundra&#8217;s success with Web Services challenges for the District of Columbia in his Apps for Democracy challenge, the federal government is now poised to usher in an era of web services challenges for federal problem solving. A detailed 12-page memo was released on Monday to executive department heads and agencies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Livable Communities Act Planned</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[global change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Chris Dodd aims to pass the Livable Communities Act prior to his retirement at the end of this session. The Act aims to fund transit-oriented development and other green transportation efforts. The Act would provide $4 Billion in competitive funds for projects, would establish an Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities within the Dept. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing Call for Pricing that Considers Impacts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK Environment Secretary, Hilary Benn, is calling for world leaders to include the impact on biodiversity in their decision making, warning that the world may be undergoing the sixth greatest extinction ever. He&#8217;s contemplating a report on the economic consequences of biodiversity loss, and a pricing of biodiversity in a similar fashion as we&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The OGC Tackles a Number of Interoperability Hurdles for Better Change Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Open Geospatial Consortium has been hard at work on many fronts to drive down barriers to interoperability and to facilitate more open dialog between organizations and institutions. I just conducted a Q&#38;A with David Schell, founder and chairman of the board of OGC, in order to get up to date on the many initiatives. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government Transparency Gets a Boost from Tufte Appointment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The White House released a list of appointees on Friday to the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel that&#8217;s in charge of oversight and feedback on how the recovery dollars are being spent and communicated. The appointment that&#8217;s chiefly of interest here for geospatial users is Edward Tufte, professor emeritus of political science, statistics and computer science [...]]]></description>
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