Fran: I don't know about IRE/NICAR, but ESRI has a rather rich offering of online mapping tutorials and podcasts at http://www.esri.com/index.html and ...
Listers: Actually, the JAGIS board of directors is the most informal thing possible: the "board" is composed of anyone who happens to show up for drinks and ...
Friends: My apologies for the cross-posts, but.... For an upcoming presentation, I'm putting together a list of the 25 basic statistics every journalist should...
--distance (in miles/km and time) from your city to provincial/national capital and principal cities of the world -- average number of calories consumed per...
From the Scout Report comes this interesting item: Mapping History http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/maphist/mappinghistory.html Queen's tantrums? Children's...
All: A few days ago, I asked friends and colleagues on listservs to suggest 25 relatively generic numbers journalists should know in order to be responsible,...
An interesting piece in the NYTimes on Sunday, "Finding Tax Revenue Through Aerial Imaging" highlights yet another industry and example of how public...
If any journalist/graphics editor/presentation editors would like to check out Pictometry (which is detailed oblique imagery referred to in the article below),...
If any journalist/graphics editor/presentation editors would like to check out Pictometry (which is detailed oblique imagery referred to in the article below),...
If you or other JAGIS-L subscribers haven't seen it yet there's a controversial UK website at http://www.secret-bases.co.uk, Alan Turnbull’s Secret Bases...
All: The Mapping & Analysis for Public Safety Program announces it's Call for Papers for the Ninth Crime Mapping Research Conference in Pittsburgh, PA at the...
One of the major aspects of the Digital Revolution that has long intrigued us is how it is driving a shift in power away from institutions and people of ...
[Note to our non-U.S. readers: To be "86-ed," is to be ejected from a bar or restaurant in some American slang vocabularies.] From All Points Blog. Read down...
From David Herzog: For those of you who are itching to know what your state's GIS officials are doing this week in Little Rock, you can visit the National...
FYI, guys -- Of course the fact that nearly half of the counties failed to reply means there's still a lot more enlightenment to be brought to the public ...
FYI, gang -- Cynthia Taeuber will present her online course "Using the Census's American Community Survey (ACS)" at statistics.com Nov.17 - Dec. 15. She will...
For those interested in "Crowdsourcing," some interesting applications related to the US election Tuesday. Esp. check out the second link. -tj ... From:...
We hope the links are still hot. If so, an interesting article from the Chronicle of Higher Education on using graphics to tell the complex story. An article...
+ Virtually Fly Around the Globe in 3D With SkylineGlobe (Beta); Developers API Also Available A small plug-in allows you to virtually fly around the world....
A touch late for Christmas, but happy new year everyone. http://www.geogreeting.com/view.html?zdJ0ZNOq+g1K12$N+k-ImVbx+lFrj2 (Surely no one has enough time on...
Further to my post last week. Note that "the entire aerial footage of Hereford, home to the SAS [Special Air Service], has been fuzzed out". Hereford is a city...
For our listers in the South-Central U.S. .... - Directions Media is pleased to announce... The Inaugural Rocket City Geospatial Conference October 15-17,...
Sorry for cross - postings ... From: Jay Morgan [mailto:jmorgan@...] Sent: Tue 1/30/2007 3:00 PM To: Morgan, John Subject: TUgis 2007 You are receiving...
Pictometry Now Taught as Part of California University of Pennsylvania's GIS Curriculum ROCHESTER, NY and CALIFORNIA, PA – February 1, 2007 – Pictometry ...
FYI -- Dear NHGIS User, I am pleased to announce the Minnesota Population Center GIS Summer Workshop, to be held in Minneapolis on June 28 and 29, 2007. This...