Bucknell has created 2 new job positions - GIS/Web Application Specialist and Digital Scholarship Coordinator - to support digital scholarship initiatives on campus. Click here to apply. The new hires will be part of the ITEC group within the Library and IT Division and will join a team of instructional technology specialists who focus on integrating GIS, digital media and … [Read more...]
Bucknell GIS brings home an IronSheep
Over the holidays we posted about Prof. Duane Griffin's victory in the FloatingSheep blog's Christmas map contest. Well, Duane has once again brought glory (or infamy, depending on which way you look at it) to Bucknell GIS by winning the coveted 'Sheep of Fools' award at the first ever IronSheep contest. The contest, part of the slate of activities for the 2012 annual … [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...]
Bucknell’s campus in Central Park (way, way) West
Check out Harold Cooper's ExtendNY map application to find out what your NYC address is - even if you live in Topeka, KS or Vladivostok, Russia. More on the project from an article in yesterday's Huffington Post: Earlier this summer we marked the 200th anniversary of Manhattan's grid plan, that easy-to-navigate layout of streets and avenues that gives us Manhattanhenge, … [Read more...]
Simple tool for creating KML-based thematic maps
As someone who has one foot in the ArcGIS world and another in the GoogleEarth/GoogleMaps world, I'm continually annoyed at how cumbersome it is to shuffle data back and forth between the two product lines. I'll skip the diatribe for now and instead just point out a cool new tool that I ran across last week when I was getting ready to talk to a Women's Studies class that will … [Read more...]