In fall 2011, Professors Steve Jordan and Chris Daniels assigned a semester-long documentary project to students in Bucknell's Environmental Residential College. The goal was to create video essays to tell the story of how the Marcellus Shale gas boom is impacting communities in northeastern Pennsylvania. Students visited communities impacted by the gas boom to conduct … [Read more...]
Free, GIS-ready historic maps from New York Public Library
Here's another treasure trove of data that's ready and waiting to be added to your ArcMap session. Over the last several years the New York Public Library has scanned more than 10,000 public domain historic maps and atlases of New York City and made digital copies of those maps available via its website. Recently NYPL took this project to the next level by creating a web … [Read more...]
Coming soon to your ArcMap session – a GIANT JACKPOT OF DATA
ESRI just added Business Analyst and Community Analyst to Bucknell's site license. What that means for you is that you will soon have access to several thousand 'ready-to-map' data variables - all within ArcMap. You'll also be able to use tools from the Business Analyst extension to do site selection, customer profiling, market penetration and other types of business … [Read more...]