Education
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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.
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Data, Education, Environmental, general, Remote Sensing
Cornell Lab of Ornithology YardMap beta
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has introduced some very exciting backyard citizen science applications that utilize remote sensing data. One of them is The YardMap citizen science project funded by the […]
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Xerces Society: Bumble Bees and Monarch Butterflies
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is about more than just bumble bees and monarch butterflies, although these are popular citizen science mapping projects. A mind-blowing 94 percent of the more […]
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Cartography, Education, Human Geography
The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America
Maps and Music are both powerful and together they can convey very complex emotions in a short span of time. The U.S. Library of Congress spent more than two years […]
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Cartography, Data, Education, general, Human Geography, Pins on the map, Political Geography, Remote Sensing, Travel
Pins on the Map: George Washington Slept Here
As you shiver in the cold today during what The Weather Channel is predicting could be the coldest winter on record for decades in North America, reflect on the 1780 […]
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Cartography, Data, Education, general, Human Geography, WebMapping
The United States Railroad Administration
On December 26, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson nationalized the U.S railroads from 1917 – 1920 in response to the infrastructure demands of WWI. While it only lasted four years, the […]
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Education, Events, GeographyBlogs, Human Geography, Social Networking
United Nation’s International Migrants Day and GIS
December 18th is the United Nation’s International Migrants Day to recognize the efforts, contributions, and rights of migrants worldwide. Migrant workers and migration has had a natural fit with geography […]
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Smartphones,Urban Legends, and Grandmas
The geospatial community is so used to the growing use of geospatial technologies that it is easy to assume that everyone around you has been as immersed in how it […]
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Education, Events, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Social Networking
ESRI and National Day of Civic Hacking
I must issue a mea culpa because when I first looked at the sponsors and participants in the National Day of Civic Hacking June 1 – 2, 2013 I saw no […]
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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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