May 182013
 

This Spring, Esri’s Education Team invited nominations of outstanding students and alumni to present their stories in a special plenary session at the 2013 Esri Education GIS Conference. Nominations were to include a video in which the student or alum demonstrates how GIS education made a difference in his or

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May 182013
 

For this final TCEA GeoSIG  ”Tech in Twenty” webinar, Dr. Bob Coulter, is going to go through the following sequence of activities showing each step as a way of illustrating the integration of data, maps, science, mathematics and language. (Sound like STEM?)

1) Collect schoolground temp/precip data locally
2) Graph local official data relative to

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May 172013
 

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2013) and GIS By Art Kalinski, GISP Years ago when ArcView II first hit the street, I had one of those “eureka” moments at the Esri User Conference Poster Session….

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May 172013
 

SuperVeyor 2013, developed by Supergeo, is a field data collection software that can be customized flexibly for hardware providers to offer high-compatible software. SuperVeyor 2013, field data…

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May 172013
 

Demonstrating how location analytics can use big data, Critigen LLC along with partners Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., and Esri, has developed an informative Medicare application called…

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May 172013
 

OpenStreetMap, the user-created map used by many of the biggest sites on the web, has today unveiled an entirely new editor that makes it easier to contribute than ever before. According to the…

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May 172013
 

Listed here are universities and colleges that are offering GIS and geospatial coursework during the summer of 2013. Take advantage of the summer break to pick up new GIS and geospatial skills. To have your institution’s GIS courses listed here, email editor@gislounge.com with your description.The post GIS

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May 172013
 

Developed by motion designer Jonas Naimark, Teehan+Lax, a Canada-based technology design agency, released Google Street View Hyperlapse that allows you to create videos of your favorite routes around the world.The post Create Videos Using Google Streetview Hyperlapse appeared first on GIS Lounge.

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May 172013
 

iD is a new easy-to-use OpenStreetMap editor that allows anybody with minimal technical knowledge to contribute GIS data to this crowd sourced mapping project.The post OpenStreetMap Editor Designed by MapBox Goes Live appeared first on GIS Lounge.

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May 172013
 

The Old Weather project is a crowdsourcing data gathering endeavor to understand and map historical weather variability. The post Help Map Historical Weather From Ship Logs appeared first on GIS Lounge.

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May 172013
 

Sandy Island has long appeared on maps and in GIS data. A research vessel in 2012 visit the supposed site of Sandy Island and discovered wide open ocean. How did this map myth originate?The post The Map Myth of Sandy Island appeared first on GIS Lounge.

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May 172013
 

The series of Landsat satellites has been collecting global imagery continuously since 1972.  A total of eight satellites and millions of pictures (and trillions of pixels) has resulted in a hugh amount of imagery which, when compiled, visualizes the massive amount of global change over the past thirty+ years.  Landsat

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May 172013
 

Listed here are shapefile viewers for viewing GIS vector data in shapefile format by using desktop software or an online option.The post Shapefile Viewers appeared first on GIS Lounge.

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May 172013
 

The Ventus Project at Arizona State University is seeking the public’s help to map out the location of all the world’s power plants. The project is led by Dr. Kevin Robert Gurney and seeks to measure carbon dioxide output at those power plants.The post Crowdsource Power Plant Data Project

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May 172013
 

Googles Maps is preparing to debut its newly revamped Google Maps.  Terming it “smart recommendations” the new functionality of Google Maps is intended to be more interactive and custom tailored to the specific user.  The more you use the map to search for locations, favorite items by starring them, and

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May 172013
 

I stumbled onto some research findings recently and what got my attention was not the headline, but rather, what the headline didn’t say. The pitch was that according to a study, 66% of small business use mobile technology (smartphones, tablets) … Continue reading →

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