Ghana’s Minister of Communications, Mr Haruna Iddrisu has called on the Ghana School of Surveying and Mapping (GSSM) to train modern surveyors to become the forerunners in support of the oil industry. He noted accurate information for spatial, economic and social development as essential for national development.
Two young geographers from the University of St. Thomas are helping an Edina, MN resident trace property confiscated from his family by the Nazis using GIS.
Two Georgia Southern University geographers, Brian Bossak and Mark Welford, are using GIS to map data about the Black Death and perhaps show that it was not caused by bubonic plague, but instead was a virus spread by person-to-person contact along trade routes used mainly in warm weather.
