Ironic, don't you think, that just one day after I post "2012 - Ten Trends" which includes examples of "accidental" ruptures of underground pipes during 2012 (see: "What's Underground Needlessly Mystifies") a construction crew working in downtown Minneapolis rips open a 36" water main and floods six city blocks with 14 million gallons of water in 15 degree weather? I guess they just wanted to participate in today's wet proceedings by confirming the trend will needlessly continue into 2013 (and beyond).
Anyway, after last week's attempt to flush the bilge of stories that didn't make the front page cut during the past 18 months, I had to haul out the Drano. Now, I'm thinking that after this week's swirl of items originally planned for "Flush It Friday - Part Two" and "Flush It Friday - Part Three", it's going to take a bit more than that to return things to normal - probably one of those long metal snakey things. So, with that background item out of the way, find below, in no particular order, a collection of viewpoint diverse stories that crisscross the spectrum of geospatial and related technologies impacting the Emergency Services Sector. In other words, the remainder of the past year-and-one-half of scraps from my editing room floor.....
- Smart TV's Could Be Watching You!
- Using Algorithms to Determine Validity of Tweets
- Firemen Take Note of AED Smartphone App
- Amateurs Redraw City Map Online
- Sensors Make Real Time Parking Space Information Possible
- Woodcut Maps for Your iPhone
- UK Floods Versus UK Tweets - Mapped
- Esri Maps Thanksgiving Dinner
- Mapping Tweets From Hurricane Sandy
- State Department to Control Employee Tweets
- Cell Phone Thefts Become Legal Headache
- Are Your Emails Being Saved By the FBI?
- Palm Scanners Go to School
- The "New" News in the Sky
- 3D Indoor Laser Mapping System Comes to Market
- Twitter Goes to War
- NYPD Collecting Cell Phone Records
- Google Maps House Site of Undetermined Death
- DHS Looking For Bioterrorism and Pandemics on Facebook and Twitter
- Video Record Cops - Go to Jail - Earn Big Bucks
- Shooting Victim Driven to Responders Who Can't Find Address
- International Association of Chiefs of Police Release Social Media Survey Results
- More Drone Spoofing Via GPS
- Predictive Policing in Santa Cruz, California
- FBI's $1 Billion Face Recognition Program
- Map App Sued by Craigslist
- DeadUshahidi
- U.S. Drought Visible From Space
- Philippine Floods - Crowd Sourcing the Response
- Open Source Becomes Main Stream
- 106 Government Agencies Get Drone Permits
- Disaster Research Blog - News You Can Use
- Internships at the U.S. Fire Academy
- Map Tells Story of U.S. Drought
- Concerns About DHS New TeleComm Powers
- Executive Order -- Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions
- Bird Flu Closes Popular Hong Kong Tourist Spot
- Bad Sniffs By Biodefender Cause Problems
- U.S. Navy Deploys Underwater Drones to Gulf
- DHS Examines Climate Change Issue
- Map It Once, Use It Many Times Act
- Stopping Thieves With Machine-to-Machine Tracking
- Google Street View Data Collects Make Germans Mad
- Drones In U.S. Skies Equal Fear
- NASA Data Helps Wildfire Firefighters
- Research Continues on Micro Robots to Help First Responders
Lead photo: american3rdposition.com
Have an absolutely Great Weekend!
(and stay dry)
(and stay dry)
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