Children Map the World, Volume 2, showcases one hundred favorite world map drawings submitted to the Barbara Petchenik Children's World Map Competition 2005-2007. The map competition, sponsored by The International Cartographic Association, was created as a memorial to Barbara Petchenik, a cartographer who studied how children comprehend maps. ...

Free E-book Showcases Essays by Well-Known Academics, Thought Leaders Essays on Geography and GIS, Vol. 2, the latest offering from the Best Practices series published by geographic information system (GIS) software developer ESRI, is a collection of essays written by many of the top academics in the fields of geography and GIS technology. ...

Geodesy – “the science of measuring and monitoring the size and shape of the Earth” is an important science for the GIS community and gaining importance for understanding climate change globally and locally. This subject is not easy for most of us to understand or use – and to teach students about it, is even more daunting. The National ...

The Spring 2009 issue of ArcUser is now online in an exciting new format - a flipbook!  Visit the ArcUser site for more information. What is ArcUser Magazine? ArcUser magazine is an award-winning quarterly publication that helps readers keep up with the rapidly growing GIS industry. It provides practical, technical information on how GIS is ...

At long last, a book that I had the good fortune to help author is now available!  Here is the press release for Map Use: Reading and Analysis, Sixth Edition, which ESRI Press released on Feb. 14th: Redlands, California—February 12, 2009—To unlock the wealth of information in a map, a person must know how to read one. That’s why Map Use: ...

ESRI president Jack Dangermond explains how GIS is fulfilling a vision of geography as an integrative science and how ArcGIS 9.3 software advances both the company's GIS technology and the underlying geographic science. Read his article.

The James and Marilyn Lovell Center for Environmental Geography and Hazards Research, housed in the Department of Geography at Texas State University, announced this week the availability of a ''Geographic Resources: Publication Listing'' of over 200 geography, or geographically-oriented publications and their website links. The listing ...

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In summer 2008, ESRI Press introduced the Our World GIS Education series. This series of books is considered the “next generation” of GIS lessons that update and extend the popular curriculum presented in Mapping Our World: GIS Lessons for Educators. Educators from elementary school teachers to college and university instructors have ...

ArcLessons, ESRI's database of lessons, activities, data and more, has just undergone Phase One, of several upcoming updates. In this update, a database-wide search was added as well as detailed information pages for each resource. A rating and review system has also been added, giving you the opportunity to tell everyone which resources are the ...