Education

  – Trend in Location-based Services Fuels Need for Skilled GIS Professionals –   AURORA, Colo. – December 18, 2012 – As more dollars are earmarked for geographic information systems (GIS) technology in corporate and government landscapes, the demand is greater than ever for highly educated...

  Directions Magazine will host three webinars this week: Rapidly Deploying Location Intelligence via the Cloud Customizing Geodata: Case Studies from Harley-Davidson, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and more What Tomorrow’s GIS Workforce Needs to Know About GIS Programming and...

Developers looking to build Western Australia’s most sustainable city should start on the coast near Broome and populate it with scientists, according to an award-winning team of Perth high school students. The year nine students from Hale School in Wembley Downs partnered with intelligent...

An award-winning group of gifted year seven students from Perth’s northern suburbs have partnered with Australia’s largest intelligent mapping company to tap into a world-wide, high-tech treasure-hunt that promotes healthy outdoor living for kids. The Primary Extension and Challenge (PEAC)...

Internet-based High-Resolution Topographic Data Facility Led by SDSC and ASU The National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed funding for OpenTopography, an Internet-based project that provides open and free access to high-resolution topographic data collected by technologies such as LiDAR...

  – GIS Offers a Higher Degree of Success for Data Processes That Used to Require Weeks or Months to Tabulate –   AURORA, Colo. – December 4, 2012 – Geographic information systems (GIS) technology provides municipal governments with exceptional quantitative and qualitative benefits. In...

Des Plaines, IL, Nov 29, 2012 - URISA’s Vanguard Cabinet (VC) is an advisory board made up of GIS professionals (35 years of age or younger) who represent the young membership of the organization. In advance of the 2013 VC application deadline on December 17, the current Vanguard Cabinet will be...

Unified File Formats and Multiple Solvers Increase Information Mobility Across Bentley’s Sewer and Storm Software, Enhancing the Efficiency of Sewer and Stormwater Modeling Teams Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for...

Statewide Distance Learning in Colorado Seeking Teacher Participants: GIS Distance Learning Course (CTE) Denver, Nov 27, 2012 - A collaboration of the Governor’s Office of Information Technology, ESRI, the Colorado Geographic Alliance, University of Denver, and Colorado 4-H is developing a GIS...

Educational Initiatives will be Jointly Developed to Increase Students' Appreciation of Geography TORONTO and OTTAWA – November 14, 2012 – In celebration of GIS Day, Esri Canada and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) today announced a collaborative agreement that will advance the...