JAGIS stands for "Journalism And GIS." "GIS" is Geographical Information Systems.
The context and goals for JAGIS are:
To inform all in journalism about the data, tools and applications of Geographic Information Science as they relate to all aspects of journalism -- editorial and the conduct of business; To outline a plan for training professional and academic journalists to use GIS in all aspects of the journalism industry; To suggest organizations and events as possible promotion and training venues. To work to influence software publishers, data vendors and public agencies to meet the needs of GIS users in journalism.
From Internet Scout <http://scout.wisc.edu/Weblog/> : Cartography 2.0 http://cartography2.org/ <http://cartography2.org/> Professor Mark Harrower at the
Dear News Mapping Professional, As you may know, Map Studio will be retired December 31, 2009. In its place, ESRI will develop a product based on core ESRI
A nice piece of coding here -- Google Maps to Heat Maps gheat is, as its promo line says, a nifty tool to turn a Google pin map into a heat map. (Or should we