Professor Nagarjuna G from the Gnowledge lab of the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education and hist team are mapping nine villages in Raigad district of Maharashtra Statea in India and adding the data to OpenStreetMap The project grew out of a "one laptop per child" effort in the remote villiages, areas G and his colleague regularly visit. But how to gain access to GPS devices?
It was a year ago that a team led by set out to map these villages in Khalapur taluka of the district bordering Mumbai. With some basic engineering, transparent spectacle cases were turned into Global Positioning System (GPS) devices at a cost of Rs 6,000 each; the contraptions are cheaper than GPS trackers available in the market at Rs 25,000 upwards.
Teachers are developing wikipages about their villages and students are recording stories told by parents and grandparents to document their hometowns.
- India Express
The Mapping Montana lecture series will take place in Helena at 6:30 p.m. on four Thursdays in January and February. Topics run from the historical to the current.
DAT/EM Systems International donated 16 licenses of their SUMMIT EVOLUTION Professional digital stereoplotter to the Geomatics Department in the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) School of Engineering. Valued at over $300,000, this gift forms part of DAT/EM’s on-going initiative to sponsor higher education through software, software support, student training and consultation to the faculty.
- press release
The Geospatial Information Research Center opened in Beijing in early December. It's a partnership between the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping and the U.K. University of Nottingham.
This new joint venture will promote innovation and technology transfer, leadership training, and staff and student exchange. It will explore funding opportunities and new project work, integrating resources to support long-term collaboration; and it will act as a world-leading incubation centre to realise beneficial combinations of research and development, production and commercialisation.
- press release
[Matthew] Huffine, 53, of Victorville [CA] has been teaching for 24 years, including nine years at Hesperia Junior High and the past 11 years at AAE, the Apple Valley charter school run by the Lewis Center for Educational Research. He has three children, ages 26, 22 and 14 — the youngest now an AAE student.
He started his career in the Forest Service and USGS and come to teaching later. Nows he's being honored as a local person who made a difference in 2011 and a great teacher who brings education beyond the walls. Among his students is one studying GIS at the University of Redlands. Lesson learned: we need GIS users to go into teaching to grow more GIS users.
- Victorville Daily Press
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/04 at 04:24 AM |
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Today, word there is funding until year's end:
We are pleased to announce that we have secured funding to keep CLICK up and running until January 1, 2012. At that point in time we hope to have an approved comprehensive plan to maintain and improve upon this kind of lidar coordination, information and data provision as a fully operational program.
We thank you all for your concern and support, and hope we can keep providing these services well into the future.
Sincerely,
The CLICK team
- USGS CLICK Forum
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the USGS Center for LIDAR Information Coordination and Knowledge (CLICK). Our goal is to help facilitate understanding, coordination, data access, communication and knowledge concerning lidar data for scientific needs. We hope you can use the tools we have provided to the fullest to help create information out of lidar data. We encourage you to register to keep abreast of new information posted here! Registering will allow you to post topics and replies, as well as subscribe to a forum to get emailed updates.
Jason Stoker CLICK Director posted in the forum today about the upcoming shutdown:
On October 1st 2011, CLICK will be ceasing all of our operations except for off-line archiving of lidar point cloud data provided to us. All other functions of CLICK- the bulletin board, data viewer and download, links to other web sites and presentations, and our Twitter feed will be shut down. There will be limited access to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) email for the time being. We are doing this in order to guarantee that in our limited funding environment all lidar point cloud data that we have been entrusted with does not disappear, but is at least kept on life support until hopefully a new lidar program can take over what we started five years ago.
It has been a great ride getting this project up and running. What started out as a way for scientists to get 3-D information into their research exploded into something much more over the years. Ironically, much more than anyone (other than us at CLICK) expected. I hope we were able to provide a mechanism to get many of you connected and educated, and provide a way for people to get lidar data that made a difference for something other than the original collected intent. We aren't sure what our future holds, but we know that lidar technology in all its forms has enough momentum that it will succeed even without CLICK's help.
We wanted to give you a few days notice, just in case anyone wanted to grab any data and/or information from the site before we are forced to shut it off. Who knows, this may not be good-bye but see you soon. I hope it is just see you soon. Either way, it has been fun.
All the best,
The staff of CLICK
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/29 at 11:08 AM |
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The National Geospatial Program today launches the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection (see FAQ, PR).
It offers more than 90,000 of the 200,000+ USGS historical topo maps - some dating back to the Agency's founding more than 126 years ago. The maps are georeferenced and can be downloaded for free from the USGS Store. Since they are in a GeoPDF format, no special programs are required, and they can be used in conjunction with the US Topo maps. (Well, except on a Mac for which the TerraGo plug-in is not available!)e website includes advanced search functions, status graphics (more maps are in the works via a quick turnaround process) and download instructions.
- via USGS PR
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/12 at 05:27 AM |
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It's officially called OpenStreetMap Collaborative Prototype, Phase One and has been available since July 5th. It reveals the results of a protoype on road data done with the state of Kansas (APB coverage). The conclusion from the abstract:
Resulting data were successfully improved to meet standards for The National Map once the system and specifications were in place. The OSM software proved effective in providing a usable platform for collaborative data editing.
- via @mhacklay
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/12 at 03:00 AM |
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Vote for top mashup in the mashathon. Last I looked there were 29 entries.
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24+ states now part of the new US Topo.
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Arcgis.com built on same rest json geoservices spec (submitted to OWF) as the tnm viewer [which is built on Palenterra.]
Follow the event which runs until Friday on twitter at #tmnuc
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/11 at 03:56 AM |
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