Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html =========================== ListBot Sponsor ========================== Dial 800-555-TELL. Instant updates - One free call. Sports, stocks, driving directions... more! http://www.tellme.com/signin/register.gsp?src=engage=11 ====================================================================== Dear colleagues: See below. Although not a GIS and health issue, likely public health people will be interested in this as well. We are experimenting with various possibilities to do on-line web mapping, so if you don't mind I'll pass along various mapping sites that might spark some ideas about how to adopt them to public health. If you have some sites that you find particularly appealing, please pass them on. For server side mapping, there are issues of performance - that is, plain old speed, maintenance, flexibility to be adapted for display of public health data, and of course - an issue close to our public health hearts, cost. Richard E. Hoskins WA State Department of Health 1102 Quince Street Olympia, WA 98504-7812 tel: (360) 236 - 4270 fax: (360) 236 - 4245 GMT -8 To subscribe to WAPHGIS, Washington Public Health GIS listserve, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the request "subscribe waphgis" followed by your name in the body of the message, like so: subscribe waphgis Your Name UNEP/GRID-Arendal News Release Arendal, Dec 14th 2000 Interactive Arctic Environmental Atlas launched ------------------------------------------------------------------ Environmental information on the Arctic region is presented in a new interactive map on the Internet. Any standard web browser can be used to browse and examine the situation in the far north of the World at the Arctic Environmental Atlas website: http://maps.grida.no/arctic The themes in this map primarily concentrate on issues like biodiversity and conservation -- where the Arctic has a special status, with vast expanses of still untouched nature, important fish stocks and large seabird colonies. Other environmental problems that the map touches upon are ecological footprint, land based pollution and climate change. The major sources used are some of the best global publicly available collections of data and maps, that have been collected and projected to show a polar view, and implemented in this interactive map service. The Arctic Environmental Atlas also draws from work that UNEP/GRID-Arendal has done for various Arctic projects over the years, in everything from conservation to pollution monitoring. The website was developed by UNEP/GRID-Arendal in Norway, a United Nations Environment Programme information centre. ------------------------------------------------------------------ For more information, please contact: Hugo Ahlenius, tel. +47-37035713, email [EMAIL PROTECTED], or Lars Kullerud, tel. +47-37035708, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://maps.grida.no/arctic/http://maps.grida.no/arctic/ http://www.grida.no/ The Arctic Environmental Atlas GRID-Arendal web site ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
