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Geotimes August 2006 Megan Sever	When Levees Fail Many of the levees in the United States were built more than a century ago to protect farmland, and have been negligibly, if at all, maintained. For New Orleans, such a lesson came too late, but the city can still plan for the future.
Popular Mechanics September 2008 Erik Sofge	Thinking Beyond Levees, Experts Turn to New Flood Software Three-dimensional maps incorporating up to date topographic and climate data can better predict regions prone to flooding.
PC Magazine December 20, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	Fly-By History Google delivers blasts from the past.
Geotimes September 2005 Naomi Lubick	Water Covers New Orleans As Hurricane Katrina dissipated on its way toward the northeastern United States on Tuesday, the threat only grew for this and other Gulf towns. Monday afternoon's seeming reprieve in New Orleans evaporated as two breached levees flooded the city.
Popular Mechanics January 28, 2009 Erik Sofge	Engineers Give U.S. Infrastructure a 'D', Seek $2.2 Trillion in Stimulus: ASCE 2009 Infrastructure Report Card The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has just released a summary of its 2009 Infrastructure Report Card, and the news is bad. Here is a look at the report and the most pressing projects for the current administration
BusinessWeek August 20, 2007 Aston & Arndt	If The Levees Fail In California... Officials are relying on a groundbreaking threat-assessment model devised by a team of 300 top scientists and engineers organized after Hurricane Katrina.
BusinessWeek June 9, 2011 Peter Heller	The Mississippi River Flood and the Katrina Risk New Orleans and Baton Rouge are one breached levee away from Katrina-like devastation. Can the Army Corps of Engineers save them?
Geotimes February 2006 Robert S. Young	The High Cost of Subsidized Coastal Development Coastal geologists, engineers and managers can objectively determine where the most vulnerable shorelines are. And in the interest of fairness, American taxpayers must insist that the communities that build there assume responsibility for themselves.
Popular Mechanics March 2006	Now What? The lessons of Katrina
Wired December 22, 2008 David Wolman	Before the Levees Break: A Plan to Save the Netherlands Global warming is a cause for serious concern in low-lying countries. The Dutch aren't waiting for a catastrophe; they're taking measures to solve the problem now.
InternetNews April 5, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Google My Maps is Your Maps Google's My Maps allows users to mark locations on a map from a library of icons, draw lines and shapes to highlight paths and areas, and add text, photos, or YouTube/Google videos.
InternetNews December 18, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	Google Buys Better European Maps Google bought European Internet mapping company Endoxon today, characterizing the move as part of its effort to improve Google Maps and Google Earth in European markets.
Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick	Louisiana's Marshland Mess Even before the past season's devastating hurricanes, Louisiana's wetlands were in rough shape. More than a century of building dams, levees and canals to control the Mississippi River changed the wetlands, limiting sediment and leading to soil compaction from the loss of vegetation.
InternetNews July 6, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	John Hanke, GM, Google Earth Google wants Google Earth to organize all the world's geo-spatial information through user-annotation.
InternetNews July 27, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Google Earth, Maps Spike Enterprise Punch Business and government users of Google Earth for the enterprise can now view their organizations' geospatial data in 2-D on a browser behind the firewall.
InternetNews May 19, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	Commercializing The World Google, Style Google Earth is fun, but there's little point if content creators can't make money.
Popular Mechanics January 27, 2009 Erik Sofge	State of a Nation: The Latest Report on America's Infrastructure A large portion of the Obama Administration's proposed economic stimulus package is supposed to be slated for revitalizing infrastructure.
This Old House January 2008	Non-Profits Help New Orleans Rebuild There are many worthy organizations working to provide housing solutions in New Orleans.
InternetNews January 11, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	Weather Channel Adds Forecasts To Google Map New feature ties together leading online weather information from the Weather Channel, and mapping services from Google Maps.
InternetNews May 11, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	Google APIs And Their Map Apps The use of Google Maps APIs is growing. Just how important can they be and what's in it for Google?
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Scientific American February 2006 Mark Fischetti	Into the Breach The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) inspection team observed a number of different failure mechanisms that led to dozens of breaches throughout the levee system of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
Wired June 26, 2007 Evan Ratliff	Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World Volunteer cartographers are helping Google detail their satellite images around the world.
Geotimes December 2006	Top Natural Hazards News Stories of 2006 Looking Into Landslides... Getting Ready for the Rumble... Levee Concerns Abound... Spreading Wildfire... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	NASA Airborne Laser Mapping Systems Studies Katrina Damage Through a cooperative research program NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are exploring the use of airborne laser mapping systems to quantify coastal change along the entire coastline affected by Hurricane Katrina.
InternetNews June 13, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	More KML And Bits of Google Earth Google took another step toward its goal to create a "Mirror World" with some improvements to its Google Earth satellite mapping application.
Real Travel Adventures November 2007 Ron Kapon	The Rebirth of New Orleans, America's Shame Walk up Canal Street in New Orleans and look at the water marks at five feet. Better yet, take the three hour Katrina Tour given by Gray Line and get the full picture. The driver and guide are locals who lived through the disaster.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2005 Mann & Hanson	Prepare for Your Insurance to Triple Money is difficult to talk about in the wake of a disaster, but insurance companies aren't evil for not wanting to pay more than their fair share. Any attempt to make them pay for damages for which they're not contracted will have disastrous consequences.
Scientific American October 24, 2005 Mark Fischetti	Flood Control Protecting against the Next Katrina: Wetlands mitigate flooding, but are they too damaged in the gulf?
The Motley Fool October 10, 2005 Tom Taulli	Google Maps' New Direction Investors may wonder how Google will make money from maps. Two words: local advertising.
InternetNews October 6, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Google Mashes Up Local Maps and local search merge into Google Local.
Popular Mechanics September 25, 2008 Erik Sofge	Green Tech Plans Hide Obama-McCain Disparity on Infrastructure Infrastructure in the United States, from the bridges we commute across to the dams we've learned to ignore, is in a state of disrepair.
InternetNews April 28, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	Free 3-D For Google Earth You can build your dream home for free. Render a 3-D version of it and place it on Google Earth using Google SketchUp.
The Motley Fool April 5, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Google Maps Its Future Enterprising developers have been creating Google Maps mashups on their websites for a couple of years now. Even Google has turned to mashups of its own roadmap site. My Maps simply brings that functionality to the masses with intuitive tools.
InternetNews May 29, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Google Zooms in on Earth, Maps at Where 2.0 Google pushes the latest Earth and Maps features.
AFP eWire August 20, 2007	Google Earth Outreach Offered to Nonprofits Several charities have already employed Google Earth in their marketing and education efforts.
InternetNews August 15, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	Get Your Coupons on Google Maps Google today announced it will soon be displaying printable coupons for local businesses in its Google Maps search results and business listing pages.
PC Magazine May 17, 2006 Michael J. Miller	Warning Children About Online Dangers We don't need a scare campaign, but we do need to educate kids about the basic rules of Internet safety.... The race to provide the best Internet mapping service...
The Motley Fool December 21, 2005 Lee Barnes	Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Hurricanes Mercy Corps helps those who are suffering with immediate needs, but it also helps people longer-term to rebuild their homes and lives.
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Paul McFedries	The New Geographers The new arts of neogeography and neocartography are thriving in their stead, and they will soon be annotating, augmenting, tagging, coding, and parsing your reality.
InternetNews August 18, 2006 Andy Patrizio	Google Mind Melds With Trekkies Google has set up shop in Las Vegas at the 5th Annual Official Star Trek Convention for Trekkies looking to sharpen their programming knowledge.
The Motley Fool June 1, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Google Clicks for Clicks Google Maps can be a bit of a shutterbug these days. Google's drive to enhance its user experience isn't entirely selfless. Yes, the sites are free, but every search engine is fighting to be your source for local information.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006	Army Engineers Protect Waterway with VistaScape Surveillance Software The Army Corps has adopted SiteIQ software from VistaScape Security Systems to oversee and protect dam facilities, in addition to related resources, along the Savannah River in South Carolina.
InternetNews June 26, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Google Earth Does Good For Real One Google today announced Google Earth Outreach, a program to help the world's nonprofit organizations get a foothold in the virtual world so they can better communicate to Google Earth's 200 million users how to help the real one.
Search Engine Watch April 5, 2006 Chris Sherman	Hacking Google Maps If you like using Google Maps and want to a relatively easy way to get more out of the service, Google Maps Hacks makes an excellent addition to your hardcopy searching library.
Geotimes September 2007 Linda Rowan	Water: Our Most Valuable Commodity Gains Congressional Attention Hurricane Katrina, a potential "watershed" moment for changing water policy, has come and gone, leaving the U.S. with an ineffective status quo.
The Motley Fool August 15, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Google: Desperately Seeking Shoppers? A coupon initiative from the search giant raises some interesting questions. Maybe old-school coupon clipping speaks to Google's desperation to get on the map when it comes to popularizing -- and monetizing -- some of its secondary products.
Entrepreneur December 2005 Scott Bernard Nelson	A Rising Tide Though costs will likely go up in the wake of the recent hurricanes, flood insurance is still a life preserver worth considering.