We recently launched the conference website for the upcoming Bucknell-hosted conference GIS & Spatial Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum. Basic info is shown below, but please check out the conference website for details and updates as they become available. About the Conference: When: November 16-18, 2012 Where: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. … [Read more...]
3 global data visualization tools to use in your class
Last fall the World Bank launched a contest aimed at challenging web developers to create web-based tools using the data available through the World Bank's Open Data Initiative. Click here to read an article from Programmable Web about the contest winners (excerpt below). You can visualize nearly every indicator of economic, social and human development on StatPlanet World … [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...]