Education

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new Master of Science degree in Geographic Information Science (MSGISci) - http://ccpe.csulb.edu/splash/gis/. Applications are currently being accepted for the Fall 2013 cohort. Please let your students and/or alumni know about this opportunity. -...

The Alabama Museum of Natural History.on the University of Alabama campus and UA’s geography department have partnered to plan and design a Discovery Learning Lab. Funding come from  part of $1.2 million in grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the John D. and Catherine T....

We are pleased to announce the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Laboratory at the University of Newcastle, United Kingdom. The laboratory is one of the members of a worldwide network developed under the auspices of the ICA-OSGeo Memorandum of Understanding...

Geography key to making friends: (1) proximity; (2) repeated, unplanned interactions; (3) setting that lowers guard - New York Times Advertise your business on EveryBlock, Chicago only for now. @UrbanLaunchpad is putting riders with GPS on Dhaka busses to map routes.  Farhad Manjoo...

Arc2Earth is a tool to convert ArcGIS data into KML and provide other services related to Web mapping. It's well regarded and used in government, businesses and academia (see the existing long list of university users). The company feels it has a larger place in education and non-profits: We...

On Jan 8, 2013 a judge ruled on the Texas case where a student protested wearing an RFID-enable school ID on religious grounds: A Texas school district can transfer a student who is citing religious reasons for her refusal to wear an identification card that is part of an electronic tracking...

Esri has shared videos, handouts and demos from various locations from its 2012 ArcGIS 10.1 roadshow titled Transform Your Organization. You can even get a PDF of the certificate of attendence. Slide decks are provided in PDF, too. The one I downloaded was 34 Mb. Suggestion: I'd like to see...

John Taylor, a doctoral candidate working with crop sciences researcher Sarah Taylor Lovell [at the University of Illionois], was skeptical about the lists of urban gardens provided to him by local non-governmental organizations (NGOs).... Using these indicators and Google Earth images, he...

I'd not heard of open source EpiCollect developed at Imperial College London: EpiCollect is a generic data collection tool that allows you to collect and submit geotagged data forms (along with photos) to a central project website (hosted using Googles AppEngine) from suitable mobile phones...

Jim Fallows of the Atlantic interviewed Michael Jones, chief technology advocate for Google in the Jan/Feb issue. Here are the high points for me for those who are too busy to read it: Biggest change in maps in last decade: So a map has gone from a static, stylized portrait of the Earth...