Students - now that you are finished with your final GIS projects (you are finished, right?) why not submit them to one of these upcoming competitions. Bucknell students have won awards in other map competitions - let's do it again: 1. 2011 National Council for Geographic Information (NCGE) Conference & Map Gallery: The 2011 NCGE Map Gallery Committee invites you to … [Read more...]
Where 2.0
The 2011 Where 2.0 conference is wrapping up today in Santa Clara, CA. Over the course of the week, many of the presentations have been streamed live over the conference website. I'm including a few YouTube videos for some of noteworthy presentations. Jack Dangermond - CEO and founder of Esri: "Living Maps - Making Collective Geographic Information a … [Read more...]
Go Philly! GIS helps improve access to healthy food in the city
Yesterday's NY Times had an opinion piece praising Philadelphia's efforts in recent years to improve access to healthy food for its most disadvantaged neighborhoods and citizens. In 'Go Philly!', Mark Bittman describes the collaborative efforts of Philadelphia municipal government, the Commonwealth of PA and a whole host of local non-profits (including my former employer, the … [Read more...]
Japanese earthquake – disaster/response maps
Here are some links to maps and map apps related to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. I'll add more as they are released. From Google - Japan Crisis Response Map and Japan Crisis Response Info Page ESRI Japan Incident map - click here to read a story from Voice of America about crisis mapping that describes how info gets fed into ESRI's Japan Incident map. ESRI … [Read more...]
Forecasting snow and finding supermarkets
If you're the type of person who loads up on bread and milk at the first hint of snowfall, then ArcGIS Online is your new best friend. Using ArcGIS Online you can create a map showing projected snowfall amounts for your area along with the locations of nearby supermarkets. The ArcGIS Online Gallery has free basemaps that you can use to create quick and easy mash-ups online, … [Read more...]