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GIS for Emergency Services & Management news, trends, information, and technical reporting on gis for emergency response.


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Independent Evaluation Demonstrates Benefits of SCALGO Flash Flood Mapping   May 9, 2012

SCALGO announced that at the recent Florida Floodplain Managers Association Annual Conference, the engineering and environmental sciences consulting firm Jones Edmunds & Associates presented an evaluation of the SCALGO Flash Flood Mapping product.More>>

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Esri Announces Technology Used to View How Climate Change Impacts African Populations   March 30, 2012

Esri announced that the Strauss Center's Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS) program has implemented Esri technology to view how climate change impacts vulnerable populations in Africa. CCAPS created the dynamic mapping tool in partnership with AidData for use by researchers,...More>>

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New CoreLogic Report Shows Tornado and Hail Risk Extends Far Beyond Great Plains States   March 23, 2012

CoreLogic announced the release of its Tornado and Hail Risk Beyond Tornado Alley report. The new research findings from CoreLogic, based on historical weather patterns, reveal that severe weather risk extends far outside the narrow eight-state corridor in the U.S. Midwest, commonly known as...More>>

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TerraGo releases v.6 GeoPDF   March 13, 2012

TerraGo Technologies released v.6 of its Composer and Toolbar geospatial collaboration software and announced that Publisher for ArcGIS will follow in the coming weeks.More>>

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Weather Decision Technologies Launches Ver. 2.0 of iMap Weather Radio for iOS   March 8, 2012

Weather Decision Technologies announced the launch Version 2.0 of its popular iMap Weather Radio App for the iOS platform. The app provides all of the functionality of a Weather Radio in a mobile device plus leverages features of Smartphones to provide information to users in the form of alerts,...More>>

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TomTom Announces the Availability of MultiNet Data in Esri’s Geodatabase Format   February 22, 2012

TomTom Announces the Availability of MultiNet Data in Esri’s Geodatabase Format. As GIS datasets increase in size, TomTom is offering enterprise customers a data solution that improves versatility, optimizes performance and allows for customizable storage configuration. Large TomTom datasets may...More>>

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Witness Confident Launches Web Mapping Service for Reporting Violent Crimes   February 21, 2012

The charity Witness Confident launched Streetviolence.org, a new website to help cut violent crime. The site allows victims of street robberies and attacks to report to the police online, post witness appeals and warn their local community by pinpointing the crime on a Google map. People who...More>>

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iMap Weather Radio Proven To Be Life Saver   February 8, 2012

Weather Decision Technologies announced that the iMap Weather Radio app has proven its worth as a lifesaving mobile application since its release in 2011. Beginning January 22, a 4-day stretch of severe weather produced two EF3 and one EF2 tornadoes in the northern suburbs of Birmingham, AL where...More>>

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CoreLogic Releases 2011 Natural Hazard Risk Summary and Analysis   December 14, 2011

CoreLogic released its first ever Natural Hazard Risk Summary and Analysis detailing the record-breaking natural disasters that struck the United States in 2011. The report provides an analysis of significant hurricane, wildfire, tornado, flood and earthquake events, as well as a summary of...More>>

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New Mapping Tool Reveals Thousands of Extreme Weather Events in 2011   December 14, 2011

In 2011, there were at least 2,941 monthly weather records broken in communities throughout the US., as detailed in a new interactive extreme weather mapping tool and year-end review released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council. The powerful web-based tool allows Americans to draw the...More>>