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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

GIS Workshops at the National Conference on Geography Education

Investigate the Caribbean, GeoTag Your Photographs, Analyze Hurricanes, and More in the GIS Workshops at the National Conference on Geography Education Come explore your community, region, and world using GIS in a series of hands-on workshops at the upcoming Read More...
Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 3:58 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Fun with GIS #23, Using the Web: Sketch-A-Map

The ESRI EdCommunity is now hosting another cool tool for educators using GIS! This one is based on the power and speed of high-performing base maps from ArcGIS Online. On the Community Web Mapping Tools page, webmeister Tom Baker has built some nifty Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:52 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

ESRI Community Atlas

The bulk of the 2008-2009 entries to the Community Atlas have been checked and posted. Remember that this project challenges schools and youth groups to put together a profile of their community, with 10-20 maps and 1000-2500 words. Groups that complete Read More...
Posted Monday, June 08, 2009 4:38 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Got a great map?

Your work could be seen by thousands at the ESRI User Conference and Education User Conference in July. We are looking for map images, videos, and photographs showing GIS at work for the User Conference Plenary Session. Select images will be used in ESRI Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 05, 2009 2:40 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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Fun with GIS Using AGX #17: Virtual Earth

One of the data layers available to users of ArcGIS Explorer (ESRI's free, downloadable, 3-D geo-explorations tool) is Microsoft's Virtual Earth. ( AGX Blog readers know this has been available since summer 2008. OK, I'm a little slow.) This is a "premium" Read More...
Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 5:37 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

ESRI GIS Education Programs Map

The ESRI Education Community is pleased to release the first version of its GIS Education Programs map, an interactive map depicting K-12 State-wide licenses, K-12 school district licenses, and university ESRI Development Centers. See the map online at Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 09, 2008 2:49 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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The First Global Land Cover Map and Data Set

The POSTEL Service Centre / MEDIAS-France have made the first global land cover data at 300 meters resolution freely downloadable. This land cover map discriminates continental ecosystems according to 22 classes validated by independent experts at the Read More...
Posted Friday, December 05, 2008 2:39 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

ESRI's US Community Atlas

Since the 1999-2000 school year, ESRI has hosted the U.S. Community Atlas as a place for schools and youth groups to post a profile about their community. Groups that complete the project successfully are rewarded with a grant of software and public display Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 2:44 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Demonstrating Spatial Analysis Functions Online

How many times teaching GIS have you wanted to quickly illustrate a function such as geocoding or viewsheds but you didn’t have GIS software or spatial data loaded on the instructor’s computer? Many key GIS functions are available on the ESRI Resources Read More...
Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 2:55 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Barbara Petchenik 's Children Map the World Competition 2009

The Barbara Petchenik Award was created by the International Cartographic Association in 1993 as a memorial for Barbara Petchenik, a past Vice president of the International Cartographic Association and cartographer who worked through her life with maps Read More...
Posted Friday, September 12, 2008 2:29 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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Continental Drift On The High Plains?

I recently taught a GIS-GPS workshop at North Platte Community College. Its large buildings are visible in the east central part of the Digital Globe satellite image below as displayed on Google Maps. The view is not one image, but two. Look more closely Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 2:40 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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Where’s Geo? Londinium!

On holiday in the UK, and starting out in London. This amazing city is littered with history and a great place to put it all in perspective is the Museum of London . What’s immediately learned is that human history in London and environs spans millennia. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:21 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Digging Deeper Into Population Change By County Using Research

Charlie Fitzpatrick wrote a blog on how to use AEJEE software to analyze county population change between 2000 and 2005, on: http://blogs.esri.com/Info/blogs/gisedcom/archive/2008/03/24/exploring-pop-change-with-aejee.aspx Using a simple county query Read More...
Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 7:23 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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English town wants off the map

There was an interesting story on All Things Considered last week about an English town that wants to be removed from GPS databases and street maps. As the popularity of in-car navigation systems and web sites such as Mapquest and GoogleMaps has risen, Read More...
Posted Friday, December 14, 2007 8:29 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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