1. Metro Flowview
    http://traffic.startribune.com/stonline/traffic/
    1. PSWNews
      Simulate
      EvacRoutes

      http://www.pswn.gov/news.cfm
      http://www.google.com/search?q=DEM+Evac+Routes


  2. Mn-Metro Webcams
    http://www.acctts.com/mspregion/mndot-metrocam_quicktour.htm
    1.  
      Graphic : John Brockman - The Third Culture


  3. IRC Projects
    http://www.dot.state.mn.us/movingminnesota/projects.html#studies


  4. Traffic Aware Trip Routing
    (TATR-VMX)

    APRS-CSCLIP
    Critical Success Factors?

    GDSS-GIS / GEM WISPreview


  5. Know the Road
    http://www.511mn.dot.state.mn.us:8080/MN_TRIP/index.jsp


  6. GPS Route Monitoring
    http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,9348,00.html

    Location, Location, Location
    The wireless Web needs a killer app. GPS could be just the thing.
    By Erick Schonfeld, Feb 02, 2001

    The hunt is on for the wireless Web's killer app. Most industry spectators think it will come in the form of some data service that will be available on the tiny screens of mobile phones -- imagine millions of people pecking away at their phone keypads, enraptured like Japanese schoolgirls looking up their horoscopes. But the wireless Web has the potential to become something much bigger -- something that cannot be contained within the screen of a mere phone.

    GPS (global positioning system) is the best example of the sort of service I'm alluding to. For those interested in keeping tabs on their valuable assets -- cars, laptops, employees, spouses, children, grandparents -- a simple GPS device with a wireless transmitter will do the trick. You need only log on to the Web, and -- voila! -- the location and movements of all that's dear to you can be pinpointed on a map and updated every two minutes.


    Of course, it would be possible to see these maps on a WAP phone with a large, color screen or a wireless Palm. But that's not the point. Since the location information would reside on a central server, it wouldn't matter how you chose to get your hands on it. (This is the sort of thinking, incidentally, that is behind Microsoft's .Net initiative, but that is another story altogether.) You might, for example, call a number and listen to the information; alternatively, you might receive it as an e-mail. Whatever is easiest for you. But since we are so interested in the location of people and things -- or, rather, the change in their locations -- wireless devices connected to the Internet are the best way to keep track of them.


    Just last Tuesday the CEO of a startup that intends to provide such a wireless GPS service visited my office. His name is Rick Bentley, and his startup is called TelEvoke. Even in this tightfisted capital market, Bentley raised $5 million in November for his crusade. He's now roping in another $1.7 million from another investor who oversubscribed. (Both times, these investors actually piled into an "up-round," no less -- meaning that they paid more per share than first-round investors did -- in contrast to the many "down-rounds" that private tech companies have been forced to swallow recently.)


    Bentley's strategy is to partner with manufacturers who will build GPS hardware, and then split the proceeds with them on the wireless notification, tracking, and control services enabled by the hardware. The first market he's targeting is automobile security; to that end, Bentley has partnered with car alarm makers Audiovox, Clarion, and Omega Research and Development to develop an antitheft and remote tracking system. Together, they will manufacture car security systems that integrate a GPS chip with the innards of a cell phone. Unlike LoJack, a theft-prevention system already on the market that requires you to call the police once you discover that your car has been stolen, the TelEvoke device can notify you when someone opens the door without a key or when the car leaves a predetermined geographical area. You can then track the stolen vehicle online and get its coordinates over the phone or via e-mail. Additionally, you will be able to send commands back to the car to shut off the engine, unlock the doors, honk the horn, and blink the lights. It's not exactly K.I.T.T of Knight Rider fame, but it's still pretty cool. Within the next several weeks, Omega will become the first to sell the TelEvoke system, which it is calling the Omega GPS 2000 (starting price: $600, plus $10 a month for the service after the first year).


    Automobile security is just the start of the many as-yet-untapped applications for GPS technology. For example, businesses could install similar devices on expensive pieces of equipment, such as laptops or servers. If you were to lose your cell phone (as I did recently at a Jonathan Richman concert, but, again, that is another story altogether), you'd be able to pinpoint its location instantly online. There are also safety applications: One such app would automatically send a message to a call center whenever your car stops hard enough to deploy the airbags; an operator there would then notify paramedics. Or personal fitness applications might monitor your running or cycling workouts, calculating distance, average speed, and calories burned, as well as mapping your route. (Are you listening, SportBrain? See "Let the Monitoring Begin," Future Boy, Oct. 20, 2000.) Bentley thinks that, down the line, the ultimate applications will involve monitoring "children and pets," although he says he is still "waiting for Moore's Law to make it more compelling" -- the devices cannot yet be made small enough to be worn comfortably.


    If this sounds ominous, it is. Bentley is careful to steer away from any Big Brother overtones. "As long as the child knows it's there, it's OK," he insists. And he thinks such monitoring is more appropriate for small children, who might be more likely to get lost or be abducted -- it goes without saying that few teenagers would tolerate such oversight. But, in a sense, the product will give parents a new method of monitoring teens: placing the Omega device in their cars. One of its features will allow parents to be notified every time the car is driven faster than 80 miles per hour, and even track where their kids have been with the car. And what's so bad about that, you might ask? Well, what's to stop employers from tracking their mobile workers in exactly the same way? Our laptops and cell phones will then really become shackles. "Jack, you weren't on a sales call, you were at the In-N-Out Burger for three hours. Pack your bags, buddy!" But then, every killer app has its downside.

    Erick Schonfeld eschonfeld@business2.com is an editor-at-large for Business 2.0.


  1. Wetland
    Eco-Tours
    http://www.acctts.com/whatsahead/index2.htm


  1. MnDNR Metro-MN Office Locator

    http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/contact/map_search.html?imgsize=196+211&imgext=160000+4800000+788000+5489000&map=LOCATE_MAPFILE&mode=nquery&mapext=shapes&img.x=97&img.y=162

    Your nearest DNR offices are in the Metro Area (Region 6).

    Metro Area Regional Office
    1200 Warner Road, St. Paul, MN 55106
    (651) 772-7900; fax (651) 772-7977

    Fisheries: (651) 772-7950; fax (651) 772-7974
    Enforcement: (651) 772-7905

    Area offices: [ Fisheries | Forestry | Wildlife ]

    Fisheries:
    Eden Prairie Area Office
    9925 Valley View Rd, Eden Prairie, MN 55344-3526
    (612) 826-6771; fax (612) 826-6767

    Forestry:
    West Metro Area Office
    9925 Valley View Rd, Eden Prairie, MN 55344
    (612) 826-6760; fax (612) 826-6767

    Wildlife:
    Metro Area Office
    5463-C W Broadway, Forest Lake, MN 55025
    (651) 296-3450


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