Education

Matt Zook, Ate Poorthuis, and Monica Stephens explain the exciting event they hosted in Manhattan, Iron Sheep. Loosely based off the popular television show, Iron Chef, Iron Sheep was a map hacking event where instead of editable ingredients, teams are given geo-coded data and asked to create

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How do you remember where you parked your car? How do you know if you're moving in the right direction? Neuroscientist Neil Burgess studies the neural mechanisms that map the space around us, and how they link to memory and imagination.

An introduction to what The Open Geospatial Consorium (OGC) is and what it is trying to do through its consensus standards development process. (There are no big words, nor diagrams.)

When collecting data that will be used in a geographic information system (GIS), it is important that you record it properly. In order to do this, you need to understand the difference between accuracy, precision and resolution. This short video provides a brief and easy to understand introduction to these concepts using target-shooting as an analogy. Created by Dr. Colin D. MacLeod, GIS In Ecology

When you walk into the new History Colorado Center - which will open this spring - one of the the first things you will see is a terrezzo-tile floor. It's part art, part geography and part history.

Directions OnPoint - Special Session: GIS Certification with David DiBiase, President, and Sheila Wilson, Ex. Dir. GISCI

Our newest Education Meets the Workforce video features student interns from Towson University’s Center for GIS. The interns, Justin Mannion, James Parmeter, and Alex Stapleton, work closely together on data collection processes in connection with the Maryland Broadband Map project. The Maryland Broadband Map allows residential and business consumers to discover the high-speed Internet services and providers in their neighborhood, anywhere in Maryland.

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Firefighters are using a new tool that resembles a sandbox like children play in to learn more about what a fire can do and where it can go.