JAGIS stands for "Journalism And GIS." "GIS" is Geographical Information Systems.
The context and goals for JAGIS are:
To inform all in journalism about the data, tools and applications of Geographic Information Science as they relate to all aspects of journalism -- editorial and the conduct of business; To outline a plan for training professional and academic journalists to use GIS in all aspects of the journalism industry; To suggest organizations and events as possible promotion and training venues. To work to influence software publishers, data vendors and public agencies to meet the needs of GIS users in journalism.
All: Looking forward to seeing JAGIS-eros in San Diego next week. (No, no, not THAT "eros." The Spanish "...eros. Or the U.S. Geo. Survey version as in
Discovered a new, online resource for teaching spatial thinking today while attending the UCGIS Summer Assembly <http://www.ucgis.org/summer2009/> here in
Colleagues: Just a reminder of our JAGIS social session coming up at the ESRI User Conference in July. Please let me know if you think you MIGHT make it. I
We've been noticing since the first of the year the results of some very creative and sometime brilliant aggregation sites. (Do we need a new phrase for this
Reminder from: JAGIS-L Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JAGIS-L/cal Presentation: Development of GIS System - Union County, NJ Tuesday June 2, 2009