...Possible Questions National Geographic Society 1. Fahey remarks about magazine piles “ that has come to haunt people today don’t want clutter. Comment? 2. How can Fahey promote cross functional and cross divisional collaboration by bringing radical changes in business model from paper to digital. 3. What should be the best strategy for fahey to integrate the media and magazine by transforming the culture, behavior and value of a legacy organization. 4. In 1994 Fahey was CEO of ‘Life Time’ ironically facing same challenges with earlier generation of media and technology. Fifteen years later same person is seen as elite general manager at work in a completely different organization. Has his thinking and management style changed? 5. Whom should the e commerce boss report to? How to transform a 123-year-old cultural icon and prepare it for the digital world? Slowly, Key concepts include: 1. Practitioners need to understand the power of the history of their own organizations in order to effect change. 2. Making transformational changes at the National Geographic Society involved pulling management levers to alter a deeply ingrained culture, develop new organizational capabilities, and design a compensation structure aligned with new values. 3. A one-size-fits-all approach to management doesn't work. General managers encountering similar problems in different organizations may need different solutions to solve them. That has come back to...
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...Cityworks® Empowering GIS™ for Asset Management, Permitting, Licensing, and more! InPrint Spring 2013 In This Issue: Cityworks GIS-centric Platform Scalability from the Top, Down Cityworks Contracts Module Harnessing Cloud Computing InPrint Empowering GIS TM for Asset Management, Permitting, Licensing, and more! Advisory Board: Brian Haslam, President & CEO Carl Horton, Chief Technology Officer George Mastakas, Vice President of Enterprise Solutions Wayne Hill, Vice President of Client Relations Tom Palizzi, Vice President of Marketing and Sales Brent Wilson, Executive Director of Sales Steve Thomas, Executive Manager, Customer Support Cityworks® Editor’s Page Scalability W InPrint Staff: Editor in Chief: Tom Palizzi Managing Editor: Kaye Ryser Associate Editor: Lindsay Ferguson Copy Editor: Reece Hanzon Graphic Design: Kent Hepworth Graphic Design: Rachel Haslam Advertising: Cindy Curletti Subscription: To subscribe, change your address, or cancel your subscription: inprint@cityworks.com Contact Us: Tel: 801-523-2751 Email: info@cityworks.com Archives available at: www.cityworks.com Azteca Systems Inc. 11075 South State Street, Suite 24 Sandy, UT 84070 801-523-2751 www.cityworks.com e hear the word scalability used extensively to describe today’s technology. For all intents and purposes, it is typically used to illustrate a solution’s ability to accommodate a variety of needs and preferences. Most software starts as a solution to a...
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...1. How to travel 175 miles autonomously with speeds consisting of 0-50 mph. Problem components would include Terrain, weather, and equipment. Terrain, weather, acts of god i.e. falling rocks and wildlife. 2. Assuming ideal conditions at 50 mph the trip would 3.5 hours. But, this question cannot be answered at this time due to the lack of information given about the course. 3. Weather, road conditions, turn radius on curves, and general obstacles such as rocks ect, that will not be included in the course file. 4. The use of a sensor system would need to be implemented to be able to see and recalculate the route on the fly to be able to avoid obstacles. A manual override would need to be installed in case things go south quickly. Have a chase vehicle that is human controlled with the equipment needed to be able to make sure that the vehicle is handling obstacles correctly. 5. Test driving the route is not an option. Things that or not in the route profile will not be accounted for. (natural occurrences). Writing the program to be able to just plug in the route program will be a little more challenging. 6. Write the program to be able to understand the environment based off of geographical information. So that once you have the route you can load that information and the vehicle will already be prepared to accept the profile. 7. Computer equipment and or vehicle failure. Weather conditions. Serious last minute route changes. (Naturally)...
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...English 1st Period October 4, 2013 Matthew Henson was a female African American that was born in Charles county Maryland on August 8, 1866. Matthew Henson was famous for being of the first people to reach the North Pole. Matthew Henson died in New York City on March 9, 1955. Matthew was the son of two black freedom share croppers. Henson lost his mother at a very early age that not reported at this time. Henson’s father moved the family to Washington D.C, when he was 4 years old in search of work. Henson, his brothers and sister were placed in the care of their family when his father passed away. At the age of 11 Henson ran away and was allowed to move in with a lady who lived in the neighborhood. When Henson was 12 years old he left to work on a ship at a cabin boy. While working on the ship for six years, Henson learned literacy and navigation skills under the care of mentorship of Captain Childs. Henson returned to D.C. once Captain Childs died and worked as a store clerk. While working as a store clerk Henson met an explorer by the name of Robert Edwin Peary that served as an officer in the U.S. Navy crops of civil Engineers. Henson was hired as Peary Valet for his travel expeditions. Henson joined Peary on a Greenland expedition in 1891. Henson embraced the local Eskimo culture. He learned the language and the natives Artic survival skills. When the trip was over in 1893 Henson was the only member left of Peary’s entourage. The other men on the team abandoned and quit...
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...fast growing private companies .As long as they are always looking for the best techniques so they use applications to sell their products and it helps them to improve their sales. Also internet facilities make it easier for them. 2. How does the geo-mapping software help the company grow? Explain how sales reps use the results of the geo-mapping system. The tea collection using the software to give them more chances for selling their clothing line between the countries. And they are using Geo-mapping to check if there is any availability to build up their company in the area , where is not offering children’s clothing in US and most of the areas is not having children’s clothing or the same type of selling. They are also using a geographic data mapping software to find a better locations and the best place to arise a new tea collection. There is many advantages of using the software .Finding the zip code of the area where there is a high probability that retailers will purchase their clothing lines and checking the...
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...Expanded applications of GIS/GPS Pamela Armstrong GEO/215 December 8th, 2015 Zahid Vermani Expanded applications of GIS/GPS Geography gives visualization to the world around us and helps identify different types of environments and our relation to their development. Through time humans have employed new and advancing geographical tools to help describe the world. For example, one of the first geological tools used to describe the planet were maps and over the years they have become increasingly detailed and interactive. The current geological tools incorporate maps and computer technologies known as GIS and GPS. Continuously, GIS stands for geographic information systems, and it combines visual data concerning information about shapes, sizes, and locations that can be analyzed. The power of a GIS is its ability to analyze location, features or objects (such as a stream), and feature characteristics (such as water quality, direction of flow), in relation to other locations, features, and their characteristics (National Park Service US Department of Interior, n.d.). GPS is defined as a global positioning system using satellites to accurately pinpoint locations and give directions to other locations by using satellites that orbit the earth. With this in mind, a combination of these two tools help to give a 3d image of the earth and bring all its geological features to life but most importantly they can be used to analyze information to help improve many areas of concern...
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...You have several examples of how GIS is used to identify and respond to different situations in healthcare. Respond to the following questions. 1. How is GIS used in two of the examples? (~200 words) Example 1: According to the first video, in Sierra Leon, the World Vision Center had collected a lot of data on public health entities by “GPS equipment, camera phone and questionnaires.” [1] This data was then uploaded onto the World Visions Online Geographic Information System or GIS. By uploading this data on GIS, it makes the “information easily available to stakeholders”, so they can easily identify potential gaps in service provision. [1] GIS makes it easier for decision makers to make educated choices that will have the greatest influence on healthcare. [1] Example 2: The hospital in Camden uses GIS to “actively seek out sick people and take care of them”. [2] Dr. Jeffrey Benner and his team started to collected “raw billing data from three hospitals in Camden.” [2] This data informed him and his team about the sickest patients and the people that “over utilize” emergency rooms. I was shocked to learn that “20% of the patients were 90% of the costs.” [2] Therefore, because of this information, Dr. Jeffrey Brenner created an outreach team to go around and target the “sickest most complex high-cost patients” in the city. [2] This information will let them know who are the sickest patients and how take care of them. 2. Describe how each of your two selections works...
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...Alliance Geotechnical Services is a company that deals with Seismic Data Processing, by utilizing IT as well as Geophysics professionals prior to the data processing stage. The data processing stage deals with large sets of data which the size of raw recording data itself can be reach up to 100s of Terabytes or more (Buffalo Technical Brief, 2010). Besides, the advancing of the technologies nowadays has lead to establish of many sophisticated methods in processing to produce better result thus increasing the amount of data that need to be process and manage by the company as well. Therefore, here comes the important of NAS systems for the company. Network-attached storage or NAS system is refer to a device that provide data storage and share data across a network. Thus, this system introduced an unlimited access data from the authorized employee as the data can be accessed through network connection. It also helps the company to give on time respond to client when all the data are share in one location with more systematic arrangement. The NAS system can be qualified as good when it fulfill some of the criteria such as have a good read and write performance, effective file sharing and arrangement, ability to storage and back up data, good in handling data redundancy as well as have protection and security option. Otherwise, handling data load without NAS system can cause few problems such as the scattered in data storage arrangement and no back up data when storage down...
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...Assignment # 1 Map Properties and Locating Objects Part A: 1) The lag between the map’s geographic data and the map’s publication date is 3-4 years. This is important; as with in those 3-4 years there could be changes in the landscape of the mapped area that may not have been present at the time the geographic data of the area was taken or during the production stages of the map. 2) The NTS sheet number for the map is 30 M/5. Sheet numbers for the surrounding maps are: west, 40 P/8, north 30 M/12, and south 30 M/4. Part B: 1) The map projection used for this map is the Transverse Mercator Projection. The cartographer who invented this projection system is Gerardus Mercator. 2) The cartographer who invented this projection system is Gerardus Mercator. 3) The two coordinate systems used in this map are Universal Transverse Mercator system, using meters, and Longitude & Latitude, using degrees. 4) The distance of one side of a UTM grid cell is 1000m 5) UTM zone for this map is zone 17 6) The map is located east of the central meridian of its UTM zone 7) The datum of the NTS sheet is the North American Datum 1927 and the most recent North American Datum is 1983. Part C: 1) The scale of the NTS sheet is 150000 2) 5cm on the map is equivalent to 2.5km. 1cm: 50000cm = 1cm: 0.5km 5 cm: 2.5km 3) The surface are represented on...
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...THE FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY Lisa Keys-Mathews Department of Geography University of North Alabama To specifically serve the teacher population, a publication entitled Guidelines for Geographic Education was published in 1984 and its contents became known popularly as the "Five Themes of Geography." These themes are: * Location * Relative Location * Absolute Location * Place * Human Characteristics * Physical Characteristics * Human-Environmental Interactions * Humans adapt to the environment * Humans modify the environment * Humans depend on the environment * Movement * People * Goods * Ideas * Regions * Formal * Functional * Vernacular (perceptual) The five themes served as a framework upon which the content of geography can be taught and served the K-12 population until the national geography standards were published in 1994. Since the six elements of the national standards embrace the five themes, they remain a valuable tool for students to use in developing a "geographic perspective," while the standards strengthen instructional planning. LOCATION "Where are we?" is the question that the theme Location answers. Location may be absolute or it may be relative. These locations, whether relative or absolute, may be of people or places. An absolute location is a latitude and longitude (a global location) or a street address...
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...lots of location based data which is very important for managing the state and serving the citizens. Having all this data in physical formats makes it very difficult to manage and work efficiently. GIS systems are invcreasingly being used to convery the location based data into digital formats. A lot of different government agencies require location based data which is useful to their field area. Having multiple government agencies using different sets of location based data can make colloobration very difficult and time consuming. Integrating the location based data from various government agencies into a single data warehouse can go a long way in helping not only government agencies but also other businesses to take advantage from it. "Geographic information is the key to better decision-making; just about everything a community, business, or public agency does, whether in day-to-day operations or long-term planning, is related to its geography." (Lennox, 2012). Using Arkansas blueprint Arkansas's GeoStar is the first statewide enterprise GIS system which is publicly assessible and supports multiple vendors which helps GIS users to request location based requests such as development requests, zoning issues and disaster response needs in an efficient manner....
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...The term Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a term used to refer to a system installed in a computer capable of manipulating, assembling, displaying and storing information that has been geographically referenced. Large volumes of data are mapped, analyzed and modeled using a single database depending on their locations. In short, the software gives one power to create maps. Information such latitudes, longitudes, elevations and ZIP codes are fed into the system and the results can be used to determine whether and climate patterns of different regions (Global Geographic Information Systems, 2007). Different organizations use GIS generated data to seek information regarding specific areas of interest they are interested in. Organizations such as the World Health Organization used the software to map different areas. For instance, GIS is used to map areas that have been struck by polio. The World Health Organization which is a world-wide specialized agency also employs GIS in its management. The organization was established in the year 1948 and it has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. It is part of United Nation and its major role is to deal with international public health. The organization covers a large geographical area and hence the need to use a specialized system to monitor its activities. The organization has employed the GIS to help eradicate some of its most annoying challenges; polio. The fight against olio is estimated to have a 99% failure rate, but with...
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...Article Paper 4/11/2012 National Geographic Explores Digital Future National Geographic, the fascinating nature magazine, has been present with us for 124 years. As we know, it is well known for its photography, maps, and articles. Mr. Fahey had taken over as the CEO of National Geographic in 1998 and is dedicating his efforts into expanding the magazine’s reach to consumers. He understands that the digital aspect of the market is thriving today so he is going to enter in strong, considering 56% of their revenue is accumulated through television networks and other programming methods. Mr. Fahey strongly states he won’t abolish the company’s oldest asset, stories and pictures, but will deliver them in a more accessible manor. This article correlates highly on the implications for management seen in Chapter 6 of the textbook. Chapter 6 strongly informs the reader about planning and strategies. Planning has a very important role in management with relevance to achieving goals. There are three steps within planning that firms must use in order to plan successfully. Mr. Fahey and National Geographic do this very well. This first step is to determine the organizations mission and goals. Mr. Fahey states this quite clearly by saying that the company will do much better off with digital expansion. The second step is to formulate a strategy. Mr. Fahey does this by noticing how the website and television networking succeeded. Since that division of digital sources did...
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...Expanded Application of GIS/GPS When I started my GEO 215 class I was quite unsure exactly what we would be talking about. First thing that came to mind was maps, then it was on different areas in the world, then how different cultures survive and adapt to different areas etc. So my mind began wondering down this Geography journey. So once I got the first assignment about the Expanded Application if GIS and GPS, I was stomped. So of course that's exactly where I started my research. First thing I looked up was what is GIS or Graphic Information Systems. "A GIS combines visual data concerning information about shapes, sizes, and locations that can be analyzed" (Wikipedia 2016). A GPS also known as global positioning system uses satellites to pinpoint locations and give directions to other places by using satellites that orbit the the earth. So the more I read the more I realized how these two tools play a major role in Geography. Geography gives visualization to the world around us and helps identify different types of environments and our relation to their development. When you bring these two types of geographical tools together you will be able have to analyze information to let you know the unknowns of the world. For instance when you get the information from you GIS or GPS or can tell you if there is traffic ahead or if the weather is bad or if there is a river ahead. We use GIS and GPS all around the world. The satellites help share the collected information all over...
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...Understand GIS/GPS Maryalice Anderson Feb. 29, 2016 Marquette University Understand GIS/GPS Geographic Information System (GIS), is defined in our text as “a computer system used to organize, store, analyze, and display geographic information. The Global Positioning System (GPS) is defined in our text as, a navigational tool consisting of a fleet of satellites orbiting Earth, broadcasting digital codes, and a portable receiver that can receive those codes and determine its location” (Dahlman & Renwick, 2015, Chapter 1). GIS has been called a way to learn the geographic reasoning for anything. We can use the GPS system to find any place anywhere on this earth. GPS operates in real-time, 24 hours per day. Using GIS/GPS Currently consisting of approximately 24 satellites, GPS also uses ground stations to match information and use that information as reference points of a location that is accurate to within a couple of yards. GPS was formally used strictly for the military. Now it is used in and by everything. From the cell phone to automobiles, boats and computers. GIS makes use of computer software to pass along a location on earth. The components or parts that make GIS work consist of three categories. The computer and its software, real time data, and people that are trained to use the information. The data is digitized and has been created by government or commercial operations that they make freely available in most cases. According...
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