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April 2011 Mobile GIS/GPS Advances Public Health Response By Matthew Simon October 2010 Mobile Devices: The New Force in Geospatial-Intelligence Reporting By Carolyn Gordon August 2010 Putting Vehicle Fleets on a Fuel Diet: GPS-Based Fleet Tracking "Leans and Greens" Operations By Renaat Ver Eecke BY MATTHEW SIMON Health Response T Advances Public GIS/GPS Mobile BY CAROLYN GORDON hrough the millennia, early practitioners used simple tools and instruments to document the new world— one mountain, river, prairie and ocean at a time. 18 G E O W O R L D / A P R I L 2 O 1 1 Now analysts measure, map and monitor the world's geographic regions with remarkable precision. Automated software tools are redefining geospatial analysis, and an explosion of mobile devices record every detail. Around the clock, commercial and tactical satellites, aerial vehicles, and private citizens are snapping images of Earth from all angles. As quickly as digital data can be uploaded to the Internet, they're immediately avail- able for viewing, sharing and analysis, creating a global database of free information. The availability of instant data is changing the way individuals, businesses and governments operate. It's becoming increasingly useful for many activities in everyday life, ranging from finding the shortest driving route while avoiding toll roads to recovery and evacuation missions, such as the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti earlier in 2010. "Before the January 12 earthquake, widely available maps of the country of Haiti had little more than a few highways and roads," wrote Andrew Turner, a self-described "neogeographer," on opensource.com (opensource.com/ life/10/1/openstreetmap-haiti). "The capital city of Port- au-Prince was a shaded outline that suggested a city. The problem was that Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, had been ignored by traditional commercial data providers. Few could afford a GPS, so why build digital maps of roads or buildings? "When the earthquake struck and crisis respond- Mobility/GPS Special Issue ers began planning their aid, they were left without a means to identify cities, routes of entry, buildings, parks, or much of anything that would allow them to know how to possibly provide support to the citizens of Haiti," he added. 22 G E O W O R L D / O C T O B E R 2 O 1 0 Industry Trends Health Mapping