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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

Find Your Latitude-Longitude

If you are looking for a fast, easy way to find a latitude-longitude, visit the ESRI GIS Education Community's Latitude-Longitude Finder in the new Community Web Mapping Tools area. This geocoder uses ArcGIS Online to find latitude-longitude from street Read More...
Posted Monday, July 06, 2009 5:30 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

Yes, you can create mashups using ESRI software!

Have a look at this cool demo, presented by Jack Dangermond and Jeremy Bartley, at the recent Where 2.0 conference in San Jose. The video resolution is rather poor, however you’ll get the idea. http://en.oreilly.com/where2009/public/schedule/detail/9102 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 24, 2009 2:28 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

EdCommunity Case Studies Released

The ESRI GIS Education Community unveiled the Case Studies collection this week. These case studies are rich, real-world stories of GIS in education – across several educational categories. These stories represent best practices of GIS planning, implementation Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009 1:12 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

GLOBE At Night 2009

GLOBE at Night brings people outside to observe the constellation Orion from 16-28 March 2009. Participants simply choose a clear night on which stars are visible, take measurements of stars in this portion of the sky using GLOBE's Magnitude Charts, and Read More...
Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 2:39 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Examining Spatial Patterns of Oil and Gas Production in the USA

As our Nation wrestles with issues surrounding energy use, one excellent data set to explore is a new oil and gas exploration and production map. The data can be used in several ways: (1) As a PDF file; (2) As an interactive, web-based GIS map; (3) As Read More...
Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 2:34 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

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

Learn How to Use GIS in Your Instruction at the 2008 National Conference on Geography Education

The National Conference on Geography Education provides an excellent means of networking with over 600 colleagues at primary, secondary, and university levels, as well as those in government and industry. ESRI staff and some of our colleagues are teaching Read More...
Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 2:00 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

KML in ArcGIS 9.3

The ability to export maps and layers to KML files is now built into ArcGIS Desktop 9.3 for all users at all license levels using the Layer To KML and Map To KML tools in ArcToolbox. Previously, these tools were only available with the 3D Analyst extension. Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 20, 2008 2:39 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

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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Mapping A Lunchtime Walkabout in ArcWeb Explorer

In one of my blog entries, I discussed the way I save my lunchtime walking course at the ESRI Denver office as a saved track on my GPS receiver. What is the easiest way I can map this course? The easiest way is to use a web-based, Flash-enabled GIS on Read More...
Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 2:29 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
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