April 2009 - Posts

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This week, the Federal Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board is hosting an online forum looking for input from the Information Technology (IT) community on how Recovery.gov can be designed to enhance information access and transparency. For more info, see http://www.recovery.gov/. Read More...

quick and dirty buildings at 1:14,000From time to time we've had to create some building footprint data. A colleague was in my office yesterday looking at the map to the right, and remarked that he thought that adding building footprints to maps "humanizes" the map. An interesting observation, and one that I'm not inclined to argue against.

We've learned a few tricks for making haste with little or no waste to produce building footprint data. Read More...