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Archives for November 19, 2008

GIS Day Social Bookmarking

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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!

#gisday on Twitter
#gisday on Twitter

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

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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

Sol Power
Sol Power

See more about Mappler here

Other cool Mappler maps:

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

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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:

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!

Landsat Image, Colorado
Landsat Image, Colorado

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

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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

Blimp Photo
Blimp Photo
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