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Crisis-Mapping General GIS GIS in Political Science Map Apps Slideshow

Libya crisis map

Click here to check out the new Libya Crisis Map.  Courtesy of Adena Schutzberg over at AllPointsBlog:

OCHA, UNOSAT and NetHope have been collaborating with the Volunteer Technical Community (VTC) specifically CrisisMappers, Crisis Commons, Open Street Map, and the Google Crisis Response Team over the past week.

The CrisisMappers Standby Task Force has been undertaking a mapping of social media, news reports and official situation reports from within Libya and along the borders at the request of OCHA. The Task Force is also aiding in the collection and mapping of 3W information for the response. UNOSAT is kindly hosting the Common Operational Datasets to be used during the emergency. Interaction with these groups is being coordinated by OCHA’s Information Services Section.

The public version of this map does not include personal identifiers and does not include descriptions for the reports mapped. This restriction is for security reasons. All information included on this map is derived from information that is already publicly available online

 

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Bucknell/Local Interest Digital Humanities General GIS GIS in History Map Apps Slideshow

PhillyHistory + augmented reality as a smartphone app

This is the first in a series of posts about several exciting new projects that my old friends and Philly GIS happy hour buddies are up to at Azavea.  The first is funded by an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant that was awarded to the Philadelphia Department of Records to create a smartphone app that will enable users to view historic photos from PhillyHistory.org draped over the current modern-day landscape.

If the research proved successful, users would be able to point their smartphones, using the camera view, at a building or other location and see historic images of that same location.  The photos would be accompanied by descriptive information from PhillyHistory.org with additional explanatory text provided by local historians.  This combination of technology and history could be a powerful tool for showing the lengthy and interesting history of Philadelphia.

Click here to read more about the project.  Azavea expects to make the app (for iPhones and phones running Android) available as a free download sometime in the next few months.  A white paper about the project will also be released this spring and could hopefully serve as both inspiration and a springboard for faculty and/or student projects at Bucknell (where we have a wealth of historical images and GIS data for Lewisburg). Click here to read a blog post from Azavea Atlas about other examples of the use of augmented reality in cultural institutions.

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Data Environment General GIS Slideshow

Online global reefs map

The World Resources Institute has a new online map of global reefs classified by threat risk. Click here to explore the map and/or download the KML.  Click here for additional data and maps on global reefs.

 

 

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General GIS GIS in Geography Slideshow

More about scale: the true size of Africa

Here’s another in a series (see here and here) of interesting maps that address scale. Created by Kai Krause, the map aims to show the true size of Africa by visualizing all of the countries and regions that could fit inside the continent – including the U.S., China, India, Japan and all of Europe.  Krause calls the map “a small contribution in the fight against rampant immapancy” – or insufficient geographical knowledge.

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Bucknell/Local Interest Crisis-Mapping General GIS GIS in Political Science GIS in Public Health Slideshow Videos

Penn State releases episode 3 of “Geospatial Revolution” series

A new episode of Penn State’s “Geospatial Revolution” project was released today.  With the tagline “the location of anything is becoming everything” the Geospatial Revolution series is produced by Penn State’s public broadcasting group and described as an “an integrated public service media and outreach initiative about the world of digital mapping and how it is changing the way we think, behave, and interact.”  The new episode – part 3 in a 4 part series – focuses on using GIS for public safety and military/defense purposes. Episode 4 is due out on May 1, 2011. See below for the full-length videos for episodes 1, 2 and 3.  Videos are also available for individual chapters within each episode.

Episode 1:

  • Chapter 1 –  Welcome to the Geospatial Revolution
  • Chapter 2-  A look at what GPS is and how it works
  • Chapter 3 – A timeline of mapping and geospatial technology from stones to phones, including mobile technologies
  • Chapter 4 – A look at how crisis mapping and global crowd-sourcing was critical to aid and rescue during the 2010 Haiti earthquake

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poMGRbfgp38

Episode 2:

  • Chapter 1 – Creating an interactive city
  • Chapter 2 – Powering business
  • Chapter 3 – Finding a healthy future

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXS0bsR0e7w

Episode 3:

  • Chapter 1 – Mapping the road to peace
  • Chapter 2 – Waging modern war
  • Chapter 3 – Serving and protecting
  • Chapter 4 – Staying safe

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OePOK6nzcaY