USGS move to Denver hardly a done deal - what about Missouri or Virginia?

In a letter to USGS acting director Patrick Leahy, Missouri senator Christopher Bond has penned his frustration add intention to not accept the USGS' recent decision to consolidate offices in Denver, CO. Bond questions why Denver was selected over Rolla, Missouri and Reston, Virgina. He also suggests that the "hodgepodge" of site selection criteria listed on the USGS website does not provide any conclusions nor does it explain or justify why Denver was selected. This is not a done deal... for additional info check out www.usgs.gov, see also the Rola Daily News - http://www.therolladailynews.com

GIS and GISCorps Respond to Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi - view the maps

Talbot J. Brooks, Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Information Technologies, Delta State University worked within MEMA, FEMA, and the rest of the alphabet soup to start GIS at the Jackson Emergency Operations Center. According to Brooks, the GIS Corps call for help came at his request. He has graciously shared his story of Hurricane Katrina, the role GIS played in the response, and the 27 August - 6 September time period.... in his words... he was "there". Read on for a look at the response, some Q & A's, and example maps and images from the GIScorps in Mississippi. See http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/6945/28/

Katrina maps and photos via open source tools

Tyler Mitchell (yes, the author of Web Mapping Illustrated) explains how an open standard's-based Web Map Server (WMS) was prepared using the open source web mapping toolkit, MapServer, to serve up maps and imagery post hurricane Katrina. See details in Tyler's weblog at http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/7807

National Geographic layers and stories now for Google Earth

Google Earth CTO, Michael Jones has revealed details of the National Geographic layers that are now available in Google Earth. These Google Earth data layers that index National Geographic stories, images, journals, and even a live webcam in Africa. You can See Michael's thread at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/illuminated-continent.html