JAGIS-eros -- First, a happy and prosperous new year to all. I just ran across an interesting application -- Blogmapper -- that integrates blogs with maps...
Impressive. Steven S. Ross Associate Professor, Professional Practice Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism ssr3@... USA Today has come...
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JAGIS gang: From our friends at GIScafe comes this link to a Census bureau tip sheet. It lists releases of survey data coming during the next three or four...
JAGISeros-- Comes these words from the editors of Directions Magazine.... "Redlands, CA -- ESRI Virtual Campus presents Turning Data into Information, a new...
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism hosts…. “Smart Maps, Public Satellites: New Tools for Reporting.” a one-day workshop for reporters. February 1,...
An item for our bookmark lists.... "A new Web portal, http:www.disasterhelp.gov, has sprung from a federal disaster management e-government initiative, one of...
The Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science http://www.csiss.org/" target=_blank>http://www.csiss.org/ Funded primarily by the National Science...
Congressional Research Service ˜ The Library of Congress January 23, 2003 "This report identifies selected Web sites for maps of Iraq. Selected government, ...
http://www.directionsmag.com/pressreleases.php?press_id=6463 The National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) today released to the public three special...
All: A block-buster page one story in the San Francisco Chronicle this morning on how the newspaper used aerial photography and real arithmetic to determine a ...
I'll immodestly note that I used the same technique in 1987 when Pope John Paul visited Miami and held a large outdoor mass. And I got the idea from a CJR...
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Feb 21, 2003 6:18 pm
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Do you have any thoughts on how to improve crowd counting when you can't afford to send a plane up to take aerial photographs? ...
Yes. One of the things I learned in the CJR article is that in a loose crowd, one in which people are close back can still move around, each person takes up...
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Feb 21, 2003 6:50 pm
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Are the one person per 10 square feet, etc., measures based on any research? Just making the call whether a crowd is "tight" or "loose" seems very subjective...
Here's the way I teach crowd-counting to students: For rallies, no seats: 1. Get a map of the area with real measurements. Yahoo Map will do in a pinch. Print...
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Feb 21, 2003 7:09 pm
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The CJR estimate of 10 square feet per person (10 in a 10 x10 box) is a good one for the outer edges of a crowd in a big space, at least in NYC or DC. Steve ...
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Feb 21, 2003 7:15 pm
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That's very good. In practice, though, I wonder about things like: - When "the density of the crowd noticeably changes." Determining that point doesn't seem...
I do send students out (in NYC and once in Boston). Answers vary from 10 to 20% for rallies (I haven't done enough assignments on parades). The counts are...
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Feb 21, 2003 8:13 pm
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It's great you're giving so much attention to this, because so few do. I write a semi-regular memo to the staff on CAR topics, and I'm going to share your...
Steve Ross's advice is good on this -- though I would call 60 people in a 10x10 space a disaster, not a crowd. I suspect that was the density at the bottom of...
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Feb 21, 2003 9:22 pm
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Steve Doig is right. Let me emphasize again, the 1.5 sq ft/person applies only to a crowd so thick you can't walk there. I've seen it close to this a few...
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Feb 21, 2003 9:52 pm
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Comes this from a friend of JAGIS.... This e-publication (NCJ 191877), jointly developed by OVC and the National Institute of Justice, gives state Victims of...
For your information. From "GIS Development" online magazine: "Story of how Bangladesh, branded as one of the most corrupt nations in the world, implements one...
All -- Brother Ted Mellnik in Charlotte sends this neat tool along to help us see changes in worker migration from county-to-county during the past decade. ...
Tx, Tom. Note, you don't *have* to look up your FIPS code. The basic url withouth the ? part opens a national view of the map. -- Ted ... ...
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There was a long discussion about those ridiculously long commutes over on census-l earlier this week. I don't think we ever figured it out, but it's my...
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