In about a month, the US Census Bureau will be releasing the 2010 Census data to states so that they can begin the process of redistricting for the House of Representatives, as well as state legislatures that use those boundaries for election districts. This process happens every ten years, and is a vital part of [...]
When you travel around the US there are lots of interesting landmarks to see. Unfortunately, only a few get the top billing. Not to disparage the Grand Canyon’s and Jamestown’s of the country, but there are some great places to see that get lost in the limelight. Checkout this list from Matador Trips of the 20 Overlooked [...]
I know I have been scarce on the blog recently while I try to balance the whole new professor thing with all the other fun stuff in my life, but I had to add my picks for your holiday shopping this year. My first pick is a great resource that I have already used to [...]
Wrapping up Geography Awareness Week 2010 (a day late) Sue and I talk about our thoughts on this year’s inaugural Academic Track at Geoint2010. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC
Faculty and students from the Penn State Online Geospatial Intelligence Certificate were on the show floor at Geoint2010 and we took some time to find out about the certificate program. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC
The world has been set right as we return to our GISDay tradition of talking with our friend Rick Lawson of Esri about a variety of GIS topics such as trends, education, and great GIS tools. Included in our conversation are the new Explore Your Place History tool and the gallery of tools from Cybertech. [...]
This post was written as a guest post for the MyWonderfulWorld blog for Geography Awareness Week. Be sure to head over and check out more of the MWW blog-a-thon for GAW. Continuing Geography Awareness Week, we would like to talk about a topic that brings together geospatial technologies (it is GIS Day after all) with [...]
Faculty and students from Washington College in Maryland presented at Geoint2010 about some of the projects they have going on. We had a chance to talk about how GIS and geospatial technologies are being used at their school. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC
We caught up with some of the folks from Dover Area High School in Pennsylvania after they presented at Geoint2010 to talk about how GIS and geospatial technologies are being used at their school. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC
I can’t add anything here to make this any cooler. A map. Made out of Lego. What else do you need? Via Gizmodo
