Author: Barb
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Education, Software, WebMapping
Geospatial Education and Interactive White Boards
Recently, I have been developing a tutorial for using electronic white boards for education. What I never noticed before, because they work so well together, is the symbiotic relationship between […]
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Data, Education, GeographyAwareness
Upcoming Hack for Change: National Day of Civic Hacking
Intel Labs is sponsoring a national civic hacking event June 1 -2, 2013 in order to solve community challenges using publicly-released data. They are calling it the National Day of […]
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Human Geography, Physical Geography, WebMapping
GIS and Oklahoma Disaster
Many geospatial professionals, such as those on the GIS Stack Exchange, have asked what they can do with geospatial technologies to help in the aftermath of the tornadoes in Oklahoma or for […]
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Cartography, general, Political Geography, WebMapping
The Apostrophe’s Last Stand
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting, spatially relevant article on regulation and standardization of place names and the disappearing apostrophe in U.S. signage, “Theres a Question Mark Hanging Over […]
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Cool Stuff, Education, Physical Geography, WebMapping
Build Your Own Cicada Sensor
NPR had a March story on “The Cicadas are Coming! Crowdsourcing An Underground Movement” about the public’s involvement in predicting cicada emergence, and the time is now. If you live on […]
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Education, GIS_Software, Social Networking, Software
What is Your Real Geospatial Age?
By now almost everyone with a computer and some spare time has taken the Harvard Mouse Click Age Test, which tries to determine a person’s age by how proficient they are […]
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Happy Shakespeare Day!
Today is 449th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birthday and also according to History.com, the anniversary of his death day. There are may Talk Like Shakespeare activities to choose from worldwide including […]
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Cartography, general, Human Geography
U.S. Taxes and GIS
April 15, 2013 is Tax Day in the U.S. when state and federal taxes are due to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or state tax offices. By it’s very nature, […]
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Mapping Baseball Statues and Google
The Guardian UK online has a media section called, “Data Store: Show and Tell“, which true to its name uses visualizations to tell a story about data. According to The […]
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Contest, Events, Remote Sensing
2013 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest – registration open until May submission dates
The 2013 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest scientific challenge has been held annually since 2006. The Data Fusion Contest is organized by the Data Fusion Technical Committee of the IEEE […]
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