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Wednesday, September 30. 2009
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SpatialKey Following in FortiusOne's Footsteps
I found this blog post on SFWeekly which linked to post on the SpacialKey (sic) blog. The SpatialKey Blog post details how the company, on its own, read an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about Operation Safe Schools, downloaded data from SFData.gov did some analysis (video below) and came to some conclusions. The post does note the conclusions have a bit of an asterisk on them, since they deal with drug busts and schools, but the data used was collected in the summer when school is out. The post also makes clear that the company has no relation to the city, but would love to speak with them. Transparency = good! There's also a step by step discussion of how SpatialKey was used which can be used as a tutorial.
I note this blog post because it parallels what FortiusOne does with its Dataset of the Day posts (blog). These tend to deal a bit more with analysis even as they highlight freely available datasets. These efforts are great resources for GIS professionals and educators. Should your organization be offering this sort of materials?
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Friday, September 25. 2009
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Georgetown Course Gets More Geography; Sparks Student Protest
Map of the Modern World is the name of a course in the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. It's being reshaped per James Reardon-Anderson, director of the Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service program. The new version focuses on physical geography and its role in international affairs.
Per the school paper: "The changes will be embodied by three lectures on the fundamental forces that shape physical geography at the beginning of the course and a final lecture on global climate change. Reardon-Anderson, who will be teaching the class, acknowledged that the changes are part of the SFS’s effort to increase its students’ exposure to the sciences."
Students are not pleased. A protest group has sprung up on Facebook with more than 300 members. Some feel political issues will take a backseat to geography.
- The Georgetown Voice
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Wednesday, September 23. 2009
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Quote of the Week
"One day of GIS training in Ontario makes you a specialist. That's abominable!"
- Dr. Roger Tomlinson on the lack of trained teachers of GIS, in a profile in the Globe and Mail.
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Friday, September 18. 2009
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Education Tidbits
The University of Vermont's Spatial Analysis Laboratory, part of the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, was recently designated as one of eight international Centers of Excellence. ESRI last spring named the lab one of the first ESRI Development Centers.
- UVM News
Where has Buddy Bison Been? is a new program from the National Park Trust aimed at getting students and families out into America parks and learning about the environment. Among materials available to the eight participating schools are a FaceBook page for Buddy and a "Google map application allow his friends to follow him wherever he roams." Geography and GIS are not noted as part of the curriculum goals, but clearly are represented.
- press release
The University of Western Ontario has consolidated its Geography Dept-based map collection into the university libraries system. Map librarian Cheryl Woods says the transition from the Geography Department to Western Libraries may help increase the visibility of the Map Library.
- University News
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Thursday, September 17. 2009
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Geospatial Technologies in the Liberal Arts Conference
This event (agenda, pdf) is next weekend at Skidmore College and will be of interest to anyone using or supporting those who use GIS in education. The deadline to register is Monday.
I've been invited to speak on "Harnessing Geospatial Technology in Liberal Education" and have spent quite a lot of time thinking about this topic over the last few weeks. I'm excited and a bit apprehensive to see if my vision meshes with reality of those in the thick of things.
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Wednesday, September 16. 2009
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Google Offering Platform Services to Schools and now Government
You may not have noticed but Google's doing very well switching educational institutions to its platform offering, called Google Apps for Education (mail, content sharing, etc.). There's even a "marketing" site complete with a map of schools using the tools.
Yesterday Google's announced a plan to "sell" those same services to government via a new product (ok it's just packaging as is the above offering) called Google Public Sector. Top on the list of apps: Google Maps and Earth.
- Google Blog Post
- Mashable
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