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 2. Classifieds 1 or 5 day!
 3. Useful Site of the day - Poverty Mapping
 4. Toolbox - NENA Std for E911 Protocol
 5. Careers & RFPs - Survey and Mapping (Colorado) RFP
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 7. Suggested Reading - Geographically Weighted Regression
 8. Featured Data - Maryland DOQQ
 9. Recent Earthquakes
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[sat.jpg] NOAA Kicks off Personal Locator Beacon Campaign - NOAA and the
U.S. Air Force announced the authorization of a new, digitally encoded
distress device called, the Personal Locator Beacon (PLB), which will
become available for nationwide use beginning July 1, 2003

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Hydro Ottawa Awards Intergraph Contract for GIS and Outage and Mobile
Workforce Management
Intergraph's G/Electric and InService solutions provide foundation for
integrated Geospatial Resource Management environment

Carmina Featured in the June Issue of Business in Calgary Magazine
CARMINA TECHNOLOGIES' INITIAL SARS DATABASE PROGRAM TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN
JUNE

ComArch announces a contract with the State of Washington
The 2.2 mln USD contract encompasses the implementation of billing
platform ComArch TYTAN and network management system ComArch InsightNet

Ordnance Survey resolves legal dispute
Getmapping plc and Ordnance Survey have resolved their outstanding legal
dispute

GE Network Solutions Announces Smallworld Spatial Intelligence^Ù 2.0
software
New search and go-to tools simplify the process for locating assets
across multiple data sets

Census Bureau Director Will Highlight Growth of Nation's Hispanic
Population
Census Bureau to Release National Population Estimates by Race and
Hispanic Origin

RAE Systems' Wireless Sensing Solutions Play Key Role at TOPOFF II
Terrorist Drill
TOPOFF is the result of a Congressional mandate passed in 1998 that
called for practice operations for a terrorist attack

Planar's New 21-Inch Flat-Panel Monitor Excels in High-Performance Video
and Business Applications
New Monitor Features Multiple Video Inputs, Picture-in-Picture
Functionality and Ergonomic Design

STATE OF ALASKA USES QUICKBIRD SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR FIRE RESPONSE
Images Help Identify Structures Threatened and Damaged by Wildfires

Around-the-web - FCW; reports that officials at the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) and Prevention are creating a system to allow health
officials and first responders to access geographic information to aid in
the response to a bioterrorist attack

Poverty Mapping - Hugo Ahlenius, who is working for UNEP/GRID-Arendal is
working on promoting the use of maps, GIS and statistics in fighting
poverty more effectively. Part of this is hosting the Poverty Mapping
web-site, which users can visit at: povertymap.net. Their collection of
examples, Maps and Graphics is not extensive and as a result, they are
looking for submissions and suggestions of related maps, information and
weblinks. Please send your poverty mapping information to Hugo
(hugo.ahlenius@grida.no)

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GEOCOMMUNITY CONFERENCES & EVENTS
Spatial Sciences Conference 2003 - Spatial Knowledge without Boundaries
22-26 Sept 2003 National Convention Centre, Australia

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[oasisi.php?s=97&w=150&h=40] GenaWare is hosting its' Annual User
Symposium taking place on June 25-26 at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel in
North Carolina. The event will include the launch of GenaWare's exciting
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our Web-based and desktop applications, technical workshops, and client
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Details Here - Be sure to visit the SpatialNews 2003 ESRI UC HomePage

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GEOCOMMUNITY USEFUL SITE OF THE DAY

[useful.gif] Poverty Mapping - A joint effort of FAO, UNEP and the CGIAR,
this portal is devoted to mapping poverty. The site offers visitors a
global spatial database of poverty and environment indicators, specific
information on food security, poverty, and the environment, and much
more.

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GEOCOMMUNITY TOOLBOX

Proposed NENA Std for E911 Protocol [PDF] - this draft proposal covers
all aspects of the wireless emergency service protocol and is of interest
to anyone involved in emergency response and E-911 implementation
projects.

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your daily GIS activities. Feel free to send us details (include required
software please) or send us the script and we'll host it in our popular
online software tools section.

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GEOCOMMUNITY CAREER CENTER

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Recent Earthquakes Around The Globe

DATE-(UTC)-TIME - Lat - Long - Depth - Magnitude - Q - Location
2003/06/17 05:17:02 51.92N 160.27E 33.0 4.6 OFF EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA
2003/06/17 02:53:10 12.00N 140.94E 156.8 4.6 STATE OF YAP, MICRONESIA
2003/06/17 00:57:44 8.18N 70.51W 10.0 4.3 BARINAS, VENEZUELA
2003/06/16 22:08:01 55.54N 159.90E 172.8 6.9 KAMCHATKA PENINSULA, RUSSIA
2003/06/16 18:33:38 23.47N 121.54E 45.3 5.1 TAIWAN

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