The Yale Daily News has a great article about the role that the GIS Specialist, Stace Maples, plays on campus. Maples, a fellow ESRI T3G Institute alum from summer 2010, works with faculty and students on integrating GIS into teaching and research at Yale and... ... he is in high demand. Working in the three-person Map Department, a department within the Yale University … [Read more...]
Mapping wheel-chair access at Bucknell
In spring 2010, Bucknell student Kate Matelan, '10 worked with film professor Eric Faden to produce a documentary film focused on her experiences as a disabled student on campus. To illustrate the differences between navigating the Bucknell campus in a wheelchair vs. on foot, Kate and I developed a GoogleEarth project with placemarks and travel paths to mark and annotate both … [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...]
ChesapeakeView
Maurie Kelly and her team at PASDA (part of the Penn State Institute of Energy and the Environment) have just released ChesapeakeView, a website that provides free access to remotely sensed data about the Chesapeake Bay region. The website currently holds 263 datasets related to the Chesapeake Bay region - including remotely sensed data as well as habitat, land use, … [Read more...]
WikiWatershed – Model My Watershed
WikiWatershed is another exciting project under development by the team at Azavea. The project - a collaboration between the Stroud Water Research Center, Azavea, University of Pennsylvania's Cartographic Modeling Lab and Millersville University - features a suite of web-based mapping and analysis tools designed for use by students and concerned citizens in sharing … [Read more...]