Mapmaking drives NAVTEQ’s Kansas road data push
NAVTEQ crews drive roads in six Kansas counties Douglas Leavenworth Shawnee Johnson Wyandotte Sedgwick to collect street signs camera images and field details for a nationwide map database. Data is uploaded quarterly and sold to Google Yahoo Garmin and MapQuest.
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Audra Jackson
Jackson
Google
Yahoo
Garmin
Mapquest
Navteq
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Leavenworth
Shawnee
Johnson
Wyandotte
Sedgwick
KDOT Tests High Tech Tools for Winter Road Safety
KDOT expands a 150000 dollar program to study weather driven tech for pre storm road treatment. In Dodge City and Topeka, 53 weather stations feed data to a 511 system and a bridge sprayer aims to keep ice off U S Highway 50 83 though results remain mixed. Officials see potential benefits but stress a fully ready system awaits refined forecasting and reliable operation.
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Carttar
KDOT
Hall
Dodge City
Topeka
Garden City
Welfare reform not helping many escape poverty, study says
The rise of public assistance to about one in six Americans draws fresh evidence that many former welfare recipients find only low paying, unstable jobs. Advocates defend reforms with expanded food stamp and Medicaid access while critics call for more education and training to lift families from dependence.
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Hamilton College
Upstate New York
Ron Haskins
Bush
Nia Foster
Foster
University of Cincinnati
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Stanfield
Clinton
Hamilton
Adair
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Coun
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Census Bureau
Jim McDermott
House
McDermott
D-Wash
Congress
Wade Horn
Horn
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