Education

• February 24, 2015Education, GIS_Software

  Elmhurst College’s Digital Earth MOOC

  If you are attending the upcoming 2015 Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual meeting in Chicago, IL this year, Elmhurst College is one of the Chicagoland colleges doing noteworthy work in GIS […]

• February 17, 2015Education, Human Geography, WebMapping

  Internship Experience: National Holocaust Museum

  According to a 2013 poll of GIS professionals on GIS Lounge, half of the respondents held a GIS intership at the start of their career. Andrew Fomil is a good example […]

• February 9, 2015Education, geoint

  USGIF 2015 Scholarship Applications Due by April 20th

  The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, USGIF Scholarship Program is now accepting applications for graduating high school seniors, undergraduates, graduates, and doctoral students in fields related to geospatial science. The […]

• November 19, 2014Cartography, Education, ESRIUC, general, GeographyAwareness, Navigation, Remote Sensing, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

  GIS DAY 15th Anniversary: Take the way back machine

  Take the way back machine to the first GIS Day in Spring of 1999. ESRI ARC News Online announced GIS Day 1999 Slated for November!  According to the press release, ESRI […]

• November 4, 2014Cartography, Education, general, Human Geography, Political Geography, WebMapping

  Maps and U.S. (Mid-Term) Elections

  Each year the number of media sources using interactive election maps increases, from search engines like Bing Elections to newspapers of record like the New York Times Elections 2014, to public television […]

• October 1, 2014Data, Education, Hardware, Remote Sensing

  DigitalGlobe introduces PERSPECTIVES Magazine

  DigitalGlobe, a commercial high-resolution earth imagery company, launched its aptly named e-magazine, PERSPECTIVES,  today. The trade magazine provides 52 pages of stunning imagery and detailed information on the satellite imagery and […]

• September 5, 2014Education, general, Political Geography

  Geospatial Professionals, Law, and Law School

  Geospatial technology is changing the legal environment in several distinct ways that have made the news recently. The first is the relatively new legal speciality of Spatial Law. According to GeoLaw, a […]

• August 17, 2014Cartography, Education, Human Geography

  Participate in a cartographic art project: Tweeting the NYCTA Graphics Standards

  Massimo Vignelli continues to inspire cartographers, graphic designers, and artists with his New York City Transit Authority map standards. Artists, Niko Skourtis, Jesse Reed, and Hamish Smyth found a first […]

• July 19, 2014Cartography, Education, Human Geography, Physical Geography

  Nautical Miles: From Darwin to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

  The diaries from sea voyages are thrilling, especially those that study marine biology.  From the first entry setting down the base coordinates to later entries listing nautical miles traveled. Although […]

• July 3, 2014Education, GeographyAwareness

  Nat Geo Bee 2014

  In case you missed the televised coverage of the 2014 National Geographic Bee finals, National Geographic has been kind enough to share it on YouTube.