Hi, It has been a long time since I last updated the blog! I’m going to try to update it more now!! We all feel bad about the bad events that happened in Haiti just a few days ago!
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The Geospatial community is trying to make a difference. We are trying to update online maps, such as the openstreetmap. Google has been really generous and contributed 15 CM Resolution Satelite imagery. I am currently in the process of downloading this imagery, but with it being 15CM res, it totals to be about 30+GB of data!! I have currently completed about 5GB, if even that. I’m still trying to make contact with National 4-H for contact information for Haiti 4-H. If you have any ideas as to what we can map, feel free to email us Haiti (at) centralareatechteam (dot) org . I will be posting my maps (Imagery from Google) here as well.
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Also, if you remembered the meeting when Joe, W0IW, was here and talked about Ham Radio, well there is a feed that you can listen too! The feed is at http://live.wx5fwd.net/voipwx.mp3 . This is a net, and it meets every hour. I will try to find a feed for HF.
HUNTINGTON, Ind. (Indiana’s NewsCenter) – The Huntington County 4-H FIRST Robotics team created a robot to help police officers develop better reaction times in the field.
The teens built the robot, nicknamed Fred, throughout the summer for Huntington City Police to use for target practice.
The process also allowed the robotics team to learn valuable leadership and engineering skills.
“Our lead engineer, Kaleb Fowler, he got to experience a lot of things we don’t normally get to do with regular robots,” said Student Project Engineer Gracie Fowler. “He got to learn how to weld and braze and we all got to learn how to spray paint this year. And a lot of our younger kids that are on the team got to come in and learn skills that they wouldn’t get to learn normally.”
Fowler says this was an excellent way to give back to a community who has given to them.
“Our community has given us so much in the forms of sponsorships, mentors, and supplies that when the police department asked us to give back we couldn’t say no,” said Fowler. “This was a good chance for us to give the police department something they can use and develop skills for us.”
The county and city police will begin target practice on Fred in the coming weeks.
Indiana’s NewsCenter is told depending on the officers’ aim; Fred should be a member of the force for quite some time.
“…Conlin has been a cartographer since 1966; and, after being laid off from his job, decided to travel and document the full path of the highway. The trip will have to make some detours, though.
Pulling out a satellite photo taken from Google Maps, he points out an area where the original highway can’t be traveled. The photo clearly shows the path of the old highway as it runs directly into a lake, resurfaces on a small outcropping, only to disappear into the lake again, and then resurface once more on the opposite shore line.
Changing landscapes aren’t the only thing that makes following the Jefferson Highway a challenge. Consulting his map, he pointed out where the highway splits at Bethany, Mo., offering motorists a path straight south to Kansas City, or a slightly longer path west through Albany, then south to St. Joseph, before rejoining the eastern trail in Kansas City.
The split at Bethany is not unique, either. His map shows the highway as it was in 1913, running as far west as the current I-45 through Denison, TX; and also includes the 1926 routes, which lie almost as far east as the Mississippi River, a separation from the western trail of almost 300 miles. In its entirety, the map shows seven towns where the path forks…”
via Nevada Journal! – http://amestrib.com/articles/2009/11/12/nevada_iowa_journal/news/doc4afc4284bc11d451757616.txt
Leadership, communication and citizenship skills were on display by three 4-H’ers at work at the 2009 Iowa State Fair. 4-H strives to build better citizens. Here is your opportunity to see and hear tomorrow’s leaders in action.
About 250 people came to the Iowa State University Southeast Research Farm at Crawfordsville to experience the newest developments in precision agriculture on Sept. 17. The Precision Agriculture Expo had equipment of all colors demonstrating auto-steer, variable rate and auto-shutoff, and satellite guidance options.
Today we froze our butts off mapping the Iowa Arboretum! (Actually it wasn’t as bad as I first thought!) It was around 40*F. We sent out all of the members who attended and we mapped 4 trails. After I downloaded the data and converted it to shp files… that took me about 2 hours… I then realized that after combining the data in a map, I couldn’t really average out the data. I just e-mailed Chris to ask him if we could borrow the GPS antenna that he brought to show you guys today (the big yellow square). This will get us to within 2 feet of the actual trail. I’m aiming to get this done either this fall yet, are next spring… I’m hoping this fall though! I think the meeting went pretty well today!
Election Results as are Follows:
President – David
Vice-President – Kyle
Treasurer – Zach
Secretary/ Reporter – Alex
Photographers – Ben, Nathaniel, Craige, Marissa, Drew, and David
Historian – Craige and Marissa
Web Development Team – Alex and David
Program Coordinator – Craige
Rec Leaders – Marissa and Zach
Congrats to all who made it, and to those of you who didn’t, KEEP ON TRYING! IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED, TRY, TRY AGAIN!! I look forward to working with ALL of you members in the 2009-10 4-H Year!
We really enjoyed our stay here (me only saturday and saturaday night!) you guys treated us VERY well! The Dinner was FANTASTIC!! (YUMMY MOUTH DROOLING PORK LOIN!!) I took pics of it… they will be coming!I had a fun time and we will be going *hopefully* to michigan next year!
PICTURES: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=38952&id=1384315726&l=7a21b1db10 (Facebook link for now… uploading originals… will be up in a few days…)
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