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Dr. Wansoo Im, president of Vertices LLC, a GIS consulting firm, and a professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, helped students and parents documents routes to school armed with pedometers and digital cameras. The idea was to highlight areas in need of upgrade so that youngsters could walk safely to school. Sixteen schools participated on different teams. The data was uploaded, with help from Im's former students into a GIS program for analysis. The project site, with videos, is here.
- Woodbridge Sentinel
Students in Hartford, VT are putting White River Junction on the 'net. The local TV station says they are putting their local history information on Google Earth, though I'm not sure what that means. It's also unclear if they are making 3D models or simply linking pictures and text. Most interesting: the work is down alongside "TeleAtlas" (sic).
- WCAX
Jakarta teachers are learning to put Green Mapping into the curriculum. The idea is to get students to be involved with and thus take care of the environment around them. A most interesting quote from the article: "He [Robert Zuber, a Green Map expert]
added the process of making a Green Map was more important than the map itself, as it raised the mapmakers’ sense of responsibility toward preserving the environment."
- Jakarta Post
Eastern Michigan University's Department of Public Safety and the Ypsilanti Police Department have teamed with the university's Institute for Geospatial Research, to track crime. The solution is built on Google Maps.
- press release
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences member Peter Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations has been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The annual awards recognize tenured faculty members for distinguished accomplishments in the fields of literature, history, or art, broadly conceived. A historian of later imperial China, he chairs the China Biographical Database Project, an online database that contains biographical information on individuals who lived between the seventh and 14th centuries. The data is primarily used for statistical and spatial analysis. He also chairs the China Historical GIS, a geographic information system covering 2,000 years of China’s history.
- Harvard Gazette
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Monday, June 1. 2009
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The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology introduces a minor in geospatial technology starting this fall. The local television station, via AP, offers pronunciation help:
The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is adding a minor in geospatial (jee-oh-SPAY'-shuhl) technology, effective this fall. Tech officials say students with the minor can show potential employers they have gotten substantial training in GPS, remote sensing and other geospatial techniques.
- The Volante
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This is the second time the US Census Bureau will use the Census in the Schools program. The package of information, sent to schools in Ohio in April encourages integration of census ideas into civics, government and geography classes. Another bonus: students can encourage parents to fill out and return census forms.
- LimaOhio.com
A letter to the editor of the by Prof Morshidi, Director, National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN) at the Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang to The Star responds to a government official's comment that those being trained in Geography be retrained to be more marketable. He points out the value of geography in good and bad times, as well as how the discipline combines art and science.
- The Star (Malaysia)
IAVO Research and Scientific, a geo firm located in Durham, NC, has donated more than 100 copies of its GeoGenesis image-processing software, worth some $3.2 million, to East Carolina University.
- The Reflector
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