Hi friends,

I received lots of great feedback from many of you that I had a chance to speak with at the Stinner Summit recently.

Lots of projects and groups were interested in havign access to geographic mapping online.  It turns out that there is already a resource available that offers quite a bit of publicly-available data.

That tool is Ohio Market Maker

(also linked to under useful links above)

Today I read this amazing article:

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/the_google_way.php

I just established a new group here:

http://socialsynergyweb.org/oardc/local-food-systems-computer-modeling-g...

This is a meta group to explore, discuss, post blog posts, ideas, and resources about technology applications, best practices, and resources for Computer Simulation, GIS and Datamining of local food systems.