Grad s map is National Geographic prize winner (Mount Shasta News)
Cassie Hansen has travelled far since graduating from Mount Shasta High School in 1999 and is now at the University of Nevada, Reno, working toward her third college degree....more...Choteau asked to help with geo-map (Choteau Acantha)
Local residents and business owners, meeting March 28 at the Stage Stop Inn in Choteau, were invited to participate in creating a new kind of map of the region that designates the sites, events, businesses or experiences that help define the region's special character....more... Charting New Territory (Pittsburgh City Paper)
By Justin Hopper....more... Tele Atlas Address Points Selected to Enhance ESRI's ArcGIS Business Analyst Desktop Software (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
ESRI Business GeoInfo Summit -- Tele Atlas , a leading global provider of digital map data and dynamic content for navigation and location based solutions, and ESRI, the market leader in geographic information systems , today announced the next generation of ESRI ArcGIS Business Analyst desktop software will include Tele Atlas Address Points to provide enhanced geocoding accuracy for GIS ......more... Where on Earth can you take a geography class? (Orlando Sentinel)
Students learn the subject in other countries, but most American public schools don't teach it -- except as part of history and social studies. Ten years ago at a convention in Baltimore, fifth-grade history teacher Lydia Lewis met someone she described as a "bright, college-educated young woman in her 20s." Lewis was busily reviewing her notes for a slide presentation on geography when she ......more... Groups work to preserve Camp Naco (The Sierra Vista Herald)
NACO, Ariz. ? Local organizations are racing the clock to preserve what some believe to be the last Buffalo Soldier fortress on the U.S.-Mexico border....more... Chicago exhibit to feature famous maps (AP via Yahoo! News)
You have a world atlas on your desk. With a few mouse clicks, you can print out door-to-door directions through the Internet. Then there's the GPS device mounted on your car's windshield....more... GIS Solution: ESRI's GIS Selected For Analysis Of Nationwide Educational Facilities In Kenya (SupplyChainSolutions - SupplyChainMarket)
ESRI announced that the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Kenya has contracted Oakar Services Ltd. (OSL), ESRI's distributor in eastern Africa, to develop a geographic information system (GIS) database of the educational facilities in the country....more... Mapmaker picked right name in 1507 (The Columbus Dispatch)
Wednesday is considered the 500 th anniversary of the naming of America. If not for a mapmaker?s decision in 1507, the country might have been called something else ? perhaps the United States of Columbia, for Christopher Columbus....more... |