A Vietnam map was created with 1,500 students wearing blue uniforms standing on the Nha Trang beach Sunday to mark the start of this year’s Vietnam Sea and Islands Week in the city.
The Paracel and Spratly archipelagoes were included in the breathing map on Nha Trang City’s main square.
A Vietnam map made by 1,500 standing students on the Nha Trang beach on June 5, 2011 (Photo: Tuoi Tre)
The joining students stood hand in hand firmly on the April 2 Square to convey the meaning of Vietnam’s territory.
I wonder if this is educational in any way?
- SGGP
Recently, Fox Valley Technical College students enrolled in Bruce Cecka's Surveying II class helped clarify the park's [Peninsula State Park, WI] infrastructure, including the 40-mile trail system. Forty students spent two days at Peninsula State Park, using a global positioning system to map everything from roads to sewer covers.
- Appleton Post Crescent
Kristin Somerville, 15, also a freshman [at Wausau Engineering & Global Leadership Academy], melded a variety of academic categories into her project. It was an interactive computer map that focused on the German concentration camps of the Holocaust.
She created a program that uses Google maps and allows the user to click on a map of Europe at camp sites to get information about those camps. The user can focus on the details of the camps, or widen the map to look at a larger area.
- Wausau Daily Herald
by Adena Schutzberg on 06/07 at 04:30 AM |
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China
China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping has just been recently renamed as the State Bureau of Geographical Information, Surveying and Mapping, a move which according to Vice Premier Li Keqiang is one of the government’s efforts to support the development of the geographical information sector for the development of the country.
- FutureGov
The Phillipines
National Farmers’ Registry System (NFRS) will be launched in the provinces of Quezon, Leyte, and Bukidnon using Geographic Information System (GIS)
...According to the President, the system will be used for “precision agriculture”, wherein the government will collect information regarding farmers, including crops that they plant so that the government can come up with a comprehensive plan for them.
The pilot once fully expanded will help the government better serve farmers.
- FutureGov
India
Twenty-five per cent of the area in in Orang National Park is “most suitable” for rhinos, That according to a habitat suitability for rhinos by Pranjit Kumar Sarma, a GIS expert of Aaranyak that used satellite imagery of November 2008, was published in International Scholarly Research Network Ecology journal.
- The Telegraph India
Zambia
The new web-site is a new Map of Developments that visitors can see where regeneration and development is taking place in Zambia.
A note on the Google Maps based map notes that funding is not from taxpayers, but from supporters of the president.
- Lusaka Times
Australia
At the CeBIT conference in Sydney this week, the agency’s [Geoscience Australia] Geospatial and Earth Monitoring Division chief, Andrew Barnicoat, said the use of Twitter in the US had shown the potential of the medium to detect such natural disasters.
- Computerworld
by Adena Schutzberg on 06/01 at 03:44 AM |
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