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...]
Peer-reviewed articles on spatial thinking & GIS
Diana Sinton, Director of Spatial Curriculum and Research for the University of Redlands' LENS Initiative, recently tipped me off to a website with full-text PDFs of peer-reviewed papers that are being presented this week at the Spatial Thinking & GIS conference being held in Tokyo, Japan. The papers (including one from GIS Hall of Fame-r - yes, there is such a thing … [Read more...]
Using G.I.S. to Help Analyze and Visualize Disasters
Guest post by Michael Grasso, Environmental Studies '13 G.I.S. has an extremely large variety of applications. With G.I.S. one could map an area affected by a natural disaster in order to analyze the extent of the damage, the value of the property damaged, and how different areas were affected differently. G.I.S. can even be used just to help someone visualize the totality … [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...]
NPR Story on Crisis Mapping in Japan
Last week NPR ran a story on crisis mapping in Japan - focusing on the open-source, citizen-driven Sinsai.info website. Here's the description from the NPR website: Open source software called Ushahidi allows people to add and update information to maps that anyone with an Internet connection can access. In Tokyo, a crew of volunteers is using the software to map everything — … [Read more...]