Archive | June, 2010

5 Reasons Why the AEC Industry is 2 years behind in Adopting Social Media

Yesterday, @Ryan_Link tweeted: #AEC industry is 2-3 years behind other fields in the use of #socialmedia. Referenced from statement made at last SMPS National Conference. I don’t understand why the AEC industry is behind others in adopting social media tools. Some of the smartest folks I know work in this industry. The very people who [...]

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Free State and County Population Projections Data until July 1st

Check out the revised state and county population projections data that are part of the Socio-Ec Data Report. You now get state and county population projections data for 3 years (2010, 2020 and 2030 in most cases) in seconds. Yahoo! The state and county population projections data comes from the different state data centers. A [...]

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6 Best Sources for Local Land Use/Land Cover GIS Data

6 Best Sources for Local Land Use/Land Cover GIS Data

Co-written by Aaron Herman Searching for land use/land cover data for your projects can make the proverbial needle in a haystack search seem like a walk in the park. At least with the needle in the haystack search, you know that the needle exists and you know where the haystack is. When searching for land [...]

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National Land Cover Data Set: when there’s no Local Land Use GIS data

Co-written by Aaron Herman Finding land use land cover data is a pain. Unless your project is within an MPO/COG that has historic and current land use shapefiles that are easy for your GIS guru to access, you can be up a creek without a paddle when it comes to finding good land use data. [...]

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Change

Lower Prices + A New Way to Get More Data Faster from Cubit

“Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine.” Robert C. Gallagher The What This week, Cubit is rolling out lower prices and a new way to get more planning data faster. In the past, users purchased individual data reports for $249 per report. Now you can get unlimited data reports for as low as [...]

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