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Exploring Data Using Cartograms within ArcGIS Desktop at the County and State Scale

In a recent ESRI EdCommunity blog, I described how to download and use a script to create cartograms in ArcMap . While I examined total CO2 emissions by country, the same tool can be applied to any data at any scale. Because I consider cartograms to be Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 2:38 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Creating Customized Maps for Classroom Use Using GIS

We tend to focus on the analytical capabilities of GIS, and rightly so, as that is its major strength. However, GIS can also be used to quickly create customized maps. These maps can be used by the instructor to support a lesson, or by the student to Read More...
Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 8:21 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Fun with GIS #29: The Joy of Joining, or "I Wanna Be a Map!"

At my first ever geography teacher institute, at Macalester College in 1986, one of the leaders held up a data table and said "Look at this table! Just look at it! You can just … just … put your ear up close, like this, y'see … and hear it crying out Read More...
Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 7:33 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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Exploring Data Using Cartograms within ArcGIS Desktop

Cartograms, because they distort our normal view of things, are wonderfully rich research and teaching tools. A distance cartogram shows relative travel times and directions within a network. An area cartogram is a map in which some variable is used instead Read More...
Posted Friday, October 16, 2009 2:42 AM by tbaker | 2 Comments

Earth Science Week 2009

October 11-17 is Earth Science Week ("ESW"), organized by the American Geological Institute . The purpose is to encourage people to learn about the natural world and examine the geosciences. This year, particular attention is being given to climate. ESRI Read More...
Posted Monday, October 12, 2009 8:16 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Join the ESRI Education Community Group on ArcGIS Online

ArcGIS Online Sharing is a new Web-based repository through which ArcGIS users can easily search and share GIS data, maps, layers, and tools. ArcGIS Online Sharing is currently in public beta and available to anyone with an ESRI Global Account . You can Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 20, 2009 8:13 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

The World’s Most Remote Island Group: Hawaii?

In a separate blog post at the ESRI Education Community , I investigated a claim that Bouvet Island is the world’s most remote uninhabited island using ArcGIS . At the same time, I mentioned that the definition of “remoteness” is subjective and therefore Read More...
Posted Friday, June 12, 2009 6:01 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

The World’s Most Remote Island: Bouvet?

How many times have you said that you were in the “middle of nowhere?” You were probably being facetious: There are only a few places on the planet that might qualify as the most remote places on the planet. Indeed, as webcams, photographs by explorers, Read More...
Posted Friday, June 05, 2009 2:22 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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Layer Packages, ArcMap, ArcGIS Online, and ArcGIS Explorer 900

A key new capacity in ArcGIS Desktop 9.3.1 is the ability to generate "layer packages." These are sets of data plus the classification and symbolization scheme, exported out from ArcMap, and able to be drawn as the creator saved them. Instead of a folder Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 3:41 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

ArcGIS 9.3.1 is Now Shipping

Unlock the potential of your GIS by creating fast, attractive Web maps and more easily sharing spatial information. Learn more about ArcGIS 9.3.1 . Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 1:25 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Fun with GIS Using AGX#21: Integrating Tools

People often ask "If I want to do data analysis, what tool should I use?" Several weeks ago, I wrote a different blog entry about tool use . As I tell people, I use ArcGIS Desktop (either ArcView or full ArcInfo ), and ArcGIS Explorer (or "AGX," ESRI's Read More...
Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 2:01 AM by tbaker | 1 Comments

Analyzing State Population Change Across the USA with GIS: 1790-2005

A new lesson on the ArcLessons ( http://edcommunity.esri.com/arclessons ) library invites investigation into how and why state populations have changed from 1790 to the present. The 67 questions in the lesson include work with maps, graphs, and geodatabases Read More...
Posted Friday, April 17, 2009 2:33 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

What do you think? - "What's the Right Tool to Use?"

A teacher educator this week asked, basically, "What software should I use with my students? If we use free tools, are they of any value? If we use ESRI's full tools, will these new teachers be able to afford them at their new schools? And can I learn Read More...
Posted Monday, March 09, 2009 5:55 AM by tbaker | 1 Comments

Investigating Temperature Extremes in the USA with GIS

We have a Sunday morning family tradition in which my daughter reads the weather page from the newspaper while we are driving in the car. The rest of the family guesses the previous day’s high and low temperatures for the state and the nation along with Read More...
Posted Friday, March 06, 2009 3:27 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

What's Coming in ArcGIS 9.3.1?

ArcGIS 9.3.1 improves the performance of dynamic map publishing and increases the sharing of geographic information. * High-Performance Dynamic Map Publishing * Better Sharing of Geographic Information * Enhanced Support for Java Developers * Easy to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:16 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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