April 2008 Ligibel Documents War of 1812
Ted J. Ligibel, Director of Historic Preservation for the EMU Program in the Department of Geography and Geology, has received $20,905 from the National Park Service through Heidelberg College Center for Historic and Military Archaeology to research and document the boundaries of the River Raisin Battlefield. The project covers the routes taken by both American and British armies and allies to and from the battles during the War of l812. IGRE will Devolope GIS Reference Maps for this project [ more ]

December 2007 NSF Project Empowers Youth and Creates Safe Communities through Technology
A National Science Foundation award is supporting a three-year project to develop the Mayor?s Youth Technology Corps. Collaborating with Eastern Michigan University in this wide-ranging effort are the Detroit Public Schools, the City of Detroit Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, and the Environmental System Research Institute, Inc. [ More ]

November 2007 GRATIOT COUNTY REAL PROPERTY INQUIRY SYSTEM
Is the high cost of deploying an interactive GIS map service beyond your department’s budget? No Longer!

IGRE develops cadastral applications based on the MapServer?map engine that are customized to publish your land information on the Internet. Integration with BS&A can also be implemented to provide users up-to-date assessor data. An example of a MapServer implementation can be viewed at http://si-vs538.com/parcelquery/index.php?county=gratiot . For more information on the this application, please call Mike Dueweke at 734 487-8487.

October 2007 CITY CONNECT DETROIT ? DETROIT DATA PARTNERSHIP
IGRE is the information technology consultant for City Connect Detroit (CCD). CCD hosts the Detroit Community Data Connection (DC2) website. IGRE is currently configuring the DC2 website with ArcGIS Server services architecture. The goal in 2008 for the DC2 website is to develop a robust web-services portal for sharing local, state and federal neighborhood indicator data with Detroit area nonprofit organizations, community groups and governmental agencies.

September 2007 Mayor's Dashboard Demonstration Website for the City of Detroit
This website was developed with data sets provided by the City of Detroit's 311 Call Center to demonstrate how data owners can use real-time editing tools to map and manage critical neighborhood data related to 1) Burned-out Street Lights 2) Dangerous Buildings and 3) Illegal Dump Sites. The Mayor's Dashboard can be viewed at http://geodata.acad.emich.edu/mayordashboard

In addition to the editing tools, this site deploys the SEMCOG full-color aerials and Pictometry oblique imagery flown in 2005. The site also hosts the 2005 land parcels for Detroit along with other interesting data sets. For more information on these ArcIMS editing functions please contact Mike Dueweke at 734 487-8487.

January 2006 NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION ? LL-MAP PROJECT
Helen Aristar-Dry and Verónica Grondona of English Language and Literature and Yichun Xie, Director of IGRE, received a grant from the National Science Foundation to implement LL-MAP: Language and Location, a Map Annotation Project.

“This project will provide information about how language boundaries and relationships can provide critical insights into the genetics, culture, migrations, and interactions of populations,?says Aristar-Dry, Principal Investigator. “When such language information is combined with topographic, political, demographic, and historical data, it can spark advances in the social sciences. That's where GIS comes in. It integrates language information with extensive data from the physical and social sciences.?br>
The project has developed a major database of geospatially referenced information about existing languages and integrates them into it a database of genetic relationships among languages. The LL-MAP site can be viewed at http://llmap.org/