Dr. David M. Theobald Talks About His Career in GIS, Issues in GIS Education, and the Use of GIS for Conservation

Tuesday July 11th 2000
Filed Under Conservation Biology, Features 

Dr. David M. Theobald is a Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. David has been working with GIS since the middle 1980s in the areas of planning, conservation GIS, and landscape ecology. In addition to his work in these fields, he has also also authored a book on using ArcView GIS, GIS Concepts and ArcView Methods, and has written several publicly available extensions to ArcView, including the ArcView Spatial Modeler and AVPrimed!. This article is a rough transcript of an interview conducted in July, 2000 in which I asked David a few questions about his career, his views on GIS education, some of the tools he has developed, and the role of GIS in conservation. Read more

The Geography Network

Wednesday July 05th 2000
Filed Under Data, ESRI, Features, Internet Mapping 

One of the services unveiled by ESRI at the 2000 User Conference held in San Diego, California was the Geography Network. Debuting June 24th, the site was officially announced during the plenary session the following Monday, marking the opening of the weeklong GIS conference. Earl Nordstrand, Product Manager explains the purpose of the Geography Network as “A collaborative and multi-participant system for publishing, sharing and using digital geographic information on the Internet.” The Geography Network is intended to be a global platform for using and sharing other’s data. This web site serves as a portal to not only access and download data located worldwide, but will also serve as a forum for viewing data, creating simple maps, browse static maps. Some data providers will also make available advanced services such as geocoding, querying and other geoprocesses. Read more