National Flood Safety Awareness Week (March 15-19)

This week serves as a great opportunity to remind your community residents that a flood insurance policy is the best financial protection against flooding because most homeowners insurance policies do NOT cover flood damage. Floodsmart, NOAA, & FEMA have collaborated on this new interactive web page www.floodsmart.gov/noaafloodweek showing the recent and past years flood history [...]

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WLIA Conference

Although the planners in our organization are heading to the WAPA Conference, our GIS staff just returned from the annual conference for the Wisconsin Land Information Association.  The theme of this year’s event emphasized the “A B C’s of GIS: Access, Build, Communicate.”  At this event we met with other users of Geographic Information Systems [...]

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Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day

This week, November 15-21, is Geography Awareness Week and the theme for 2009 is Get Lost in Mapping: Find Your Place in the World.  Mapping is an essential element of planning, and the SWWRPC has been expanding our efforts at mapping southwestern Wisconsin through new technology and data resources, especially Geographic Information Systems (GIS).  We [...]

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Thank You to the Wisconsin DNR and DOT

In the quest to deliver better and current information in our mapping services to our Region and to facilitate the product development of our Online Interactive Web-Based GIS service (currently under-development),  I have turned to some very talented people at a few of our State Agencies for help in acquiring the latest GIS data.  Both [...]

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The open-source movement

Ever since mozilla showed us that better, faster, safer, and more user-friendly software could be created and distributed for FREE, I was hooked on the open-source movement.  And apparently, so are many people in the Platteville community.  The second-most popular web browser for takers of the Platteville Community Survey was the open-source champion, Firefox. What [...]

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