Thursday, March 18. 2010

Education Tidbits

North Carolina State University now has a smartphone app that guides users around campus and provides nuggets like photos of buildings from the past and other information. What's interesting? It was developed by the library, well known for its focus on tech. The future of the iPhone/Android app?

It could even morph into a tool with "augmented reality" features that would allow users to point a smart phone camera at a building or street and have information about it pop up on the screen.

- News Observer

The Downtown Redevelopment Project in Nassau is giving architecture students an opportunity to document measurements and locations of historic buildings and redraft lost blueprints for historic buildings in a GIS.

“The Downtown Redevelopment Partnership works with five partners, all gathering data about Bay Street through the Bahamas National Geographic Information Service (BNGIS), and the Antiquities, Monuments & Museums Corporation AMMC will be the repository of that information,” said Andrew Chin, Assistant Dean of Florida A&M University.

“The GIS database allows us to query information and produces maps of 11,000 buildings, 200 of which are historic buildings, within the study area to get answers.”

The AMMC welcomed students on March 11 from The College of The Bahamas and Florida A&M University to build a relationship with the architectural history of The Bahamas. The AMMC is supervising the group of architectural students.

- Bahama Islands Info

There are 14 internships with the USFS in Arizona (Williams Ranger District and North Kaibab Ranger District) to help the service mark road clearances and perhaps do field work with GPS. Four day work week! Full time college students can apply.

- Williams News