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Land Cover Classification Contest and other GIS Competitions

Land Cover Classification Competition: Join Now! First  Prize: The top ten validators will become co-authors of the paper: Generation of a global hybrid land cover dataset. Other Prizes • Best Classifier – highest quality with  the  highest number...Read more

AP Human Geography Test Takers Up and other Education GIS News

AP Human Geography test takers had the highest jump from 2010 to 2011 in the subjects listed in the blog post: • "Human Geography" was up 30.3 percent, to 45,229 For context: Of the 37 subjects tested, participation rates climbed in all but six for the...Read more

OSM User Lumatic Raises $800,000 and other OpenStreetMap News

All the major map apps like Google Maps, Bing Maps, and Mapquest have walking directions as a standard feature, but the folks at Lumatic don’t think they are good enough. It is creating mobile maps designed for pedestrians, cyclists, and people who use public...Read more

Podcast: Whither Professional Organizations for GIS?

What's ahead for geospatial organizations like GITA and URISA? Are they serving the community? Do they need to change? What do you expect for your membership fee? And, have social networks supplanted one of the biggest benefits of professional societies ... networking?...Read more

Online Advanced Certificate in Mobile GIS Applications Development and other Education GIS News

A new fully online advanced certificate program offered by Long Island University explores the development of geography-based smartphone and tablet apps—their creation, their implementation and their introduction to the mass market. The 12-credit Advanced...Read more

Emergency Management GIS Certificate and other Education GIS News

 What's wrong with the geospatial workforce? Victor Valley College (California) adjunct professor Fon Allan Duke  knows: There’s not a good enough pool of trained individuals to step up and work in these catastrophic events. And the problem you have in...Read more

GIS Algorithm Cup and other GIS Competition News

With the goal of encouraging innovation in a fun way, ACM SIGSPATIAL is hosting an algorithm contest with winners to be announced at the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS conference in November 2012. Contest participants will submit original computer programs to be evaluated...Read more

GeoTech Center Funding Ends in Aug 2012

Yesterday David DiBiase, in his role as as a "project advisor" with the GeoTech Center, shared the news on Facebook that National Science Foundation declined to provide the center with a second round of funding. The four years of funding ran 2008-2012 under award...Read more