Last summer, Bucknell's administration asked our GIS team to conduct an analysis of parking availability across campus. The project was assigned to Dan Dougherty, Geography/History ’12 and is summarized in Dan's guest post here. This spring, a team of four students in Prof. Michelle Oswald's CENG 432 course, Sustainable Transportation Engineering, are picking up where Dan left … [Read more...]
Free, GIS-ready historic maps from New York Public Library
Here's another treasure trove of data that's ready and waiting to be added to your ArcMap session. Over the last several years the New York Public Library has scanned more than 10,000 public domain historic maps and atlases of New York City and made digital copies of those maps available via its website. Recently NYPL took this project to the next level by creating a web … [Read more...]
GIS Job Opportunities – Smith College
In recent weeks I've talked to a number of second semester seniors about GIS job options. I'm hoping at some point to write a blog post with links to GIS job search sites and other resources, but for now I'm just going to pass along job listings as I see them. I just got an e-mail from Jon Caris, the GIS Specialist at Smith College in Northampton, MA saying that Smith is … [Read more...]
Coming soon to your ArcMap session – a GIANT JACKPOT OF DATA
ESRI just added Business Analyst and Community Analyst to Bucknell's site license. What that means for you is that you will soon have access to several thousand 'ready-to-map' data variables - all within ArcMap. You'll also be able to use tools from the Business Analyst extension to do site selection, customer profiling, market penetration and other types of business … [Read more...]
GIS Job Opportunities – DevelopmentSeed
Back in October I mentioned that developing GIS technical skills can help you land a job after graduation. Well, here's the proof. Recent Bucknell grad Chad Lawlis, Environmental Studies ’11, just got hired as the Mapping & Data intern for Development Seed, a Washington D.C.-based consulting/R&D company known for its innovative, open-source solutions for data … [Read more...]