Archives for November 19, 2008

GIS Day Social Bookmarking

November 19, 2008 by gisuser

If you’re blogging, tweeting, snapping photos etc.. and sharing details of your GIS Day experience ala Web2.0, remember to tag your media accordingly. Via Twitter, if you tweet anything about GIS Day simply add the gisday hash #gisday to your posts. If you upload photos to flickr or other photo sharing sites (picassa etc…) add a “gisday” tag – see here for GIS day pics on flickr. Unfortunately there’s no official GIS Day group on linkedIn and it’s tough to find an official GIS Day facebook group, although there are a number of individual gis day focused groups created, like GIS Day at Carleton University. Regardless, keep posting and enjoy your GIS Day!

M-O-D (map of the day) Sustainable Education Powered by the Sun

November 19, 2008 by gisuser

My cool map of the Day is Title “Sol Power – Sustainable Education Powered by the Sun” this neat map was created using Mappler, a service enabling anyone to easily create a google map mashup. The Sol Power map shows details of Schools in New Jersey that are using Solar power as an energy alternative… very cool! See http://www.mappler.com/solpower

See more about Mappler here

Other cool Mappler maps:

Remember to Enjoy Your GIS Day! Some edu tips and a great Geo poster gift

November 19, 2008 by gisuser

Don’t forget to celebrate GIS Day… what ever you decide to do, try to help educate someone else about GIS and/or geo technologies. Even if you can’t take in an event or take part in one (search for one here) you can still visit GISday.com and see details of many of the events going on around the Globe. If you have a little geographer in the house (if not maybe you know a couple of kids) you could share some of the following fine K-12 GIS educational resources with them:

GIS for Schools Teaching With GIS
ESRI Canada – Schools (K-12)
GIS Lessons from USGS
USGS EDU Outreach – how about a GPS lesson?
Get ArcSchool Reader, a periodic e-newsletter from the ESRI Education team
National Geographic EDU site
Canadian Geographic
A cool EDU game from Ordnance Survey
Visit the Atlas of Canada with special GAW features
Play with KidzMap
NASA cool stuff for 4th graders
NASA Quest
LEarn about Alaska and the Arctic
Explore USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis)
OS MapZone
Learn All About Landsat
USGS EDU Outreach Program
The GISuser’s Guide to locating and downloading Free USGS data

If anything, simply start hanging some maps on your walls even in your garage, like I do! You might try
USGS Maps or Download free GeoPDF versions from the USGS Store http://store.usgs.gov/locator/

Here’s a fun task, Download, Print and hang a beautiful Landsat Imagery poster of your State – See USGS Earth as Art resource – then be sure to learn a bit about the Landsat history and future of Landsat! For example, I have this fine work of art, courtesy of http://eros.usgs.gov/imagegallery/index.php/collection/earth_as_art_2 – the kids love it!

Regardless of what you do, enjoy GIS Day! www.gisday.com

And remember, if you Twitter, use the #gisday hash along with any GISday tweets!

Aerial Photography by Blimp

November 19, 2008 by gisuser

An interesting service out of Austin, TX. The company provides Georeferenced viewshed photography for preconstruction high rise condos. They target condo projects that need preconstruction spatial visibility analysis with engineering, design, marketing/sales and unit pricing based on the view (viewshed). From the company… “We have developed one-of-a-kind camera systems with precision aerial positioning capability to photograph from specific floors and windows. Specialties involve flight operations up to 1000′ AGL in extremely dense urban areas where helicopters can not be used. All of our equipment travels nationwide as checkable luggage with our team on all airlines.” See http://www.blimpphoto.com