Subject: ‘ESRI’
October 31, 2011 GIS Career VideosCareerEsri’s GIS Education Community has a growing collection of videos profiling different GIS careers. The latest addition features GIS analyst and forester Chris Ferner in which she discusses the benefits of using GIS and related technologies in her position with the Colorado State Forest Service. Each video in the series features the use of GIS in ... read more October 29, 2011 Halloween GIS FunFun, GIS NewsLooking to add a little geo to your Halloween beyond the of proliferation Halloween Trick or Treater online maps? Google Maps has created pumpkin cutouts that you can use to Mapify your pumpkins for Hallowe’en. Print out the pages on this Google Maps Pumpkin PDF, attach the guides to your pumpkin, and use the cutouts ... read more October 28, 2011Maps of Thailand FloodingMapsEsri has released another map showing social media content from Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Ushaidi relating to the Thailand floods. The recent flooding in Thailand has affected more than a third of the country and displaced more than 100,000 people. The flooding is the result of three months of monsoon rains that have created the ... read more October 26, 2011 ArcGIS Now on AndroidSoftwareEsri has announced the availability of ArcGIS on the Android platform: Google Android users can now access data and mapping capabilities on their smartphones with the ArcGIS for Android application. ArcGIS for Android lets users find and share maps as well as deploy GIS data and functionality on Android devices. The free app is now available and ... read more September 12, 2011GIS Student Developer ContestEducation, GIS NewsClaremont Graduate University’s School of Information Systems and Technology has partnered with Esri to sponsor a GIS student developer contest. The contest offers for than $70,000 in scholarships and cash prizes to entrants who can demonstrate the best uses of GIS technology in two focus areas: public health and humanitarian issues or transportation safety. From the press ... read more September 9, 2011San Diego Power Outage Twitter MapWeb MappingTweets relating to the current San Diego power outage are mapped below. Any tweets related hashtags and keywords (#blackout, #outage, sdpoweroutage, power, electric) have been geolocated and mapped out onto a map of the Southern California area. Also mapped are any social media content from YouTube and Flickr flagged with the keyword “blackout”. Click on the ... read more September 8, 2011 Free GIS BooksFree GIS, PublicationsBuilding a collection of reference and academic texts on GIS can be costly. There are some free online source materials that can be a valuable contribution, especially if your book budget is nonexistent. Most of these free GIS books are available in downloadable PDF format and can be read from a computer or on an ... read more September 6, 2011 U.S. Wildfire MapGIS News, Industry and Subjects in GISAn interactive map published by Esri shows the wildfire locations across the United States which covers the current wildfires raging in central Texas region and in California (click on the fire icon for each location for a popup with the fire name and current amount of acreage burned). The wildfire data is from USGS NHSS as ... read more August 14, 2011Free ArcExplorer Online SeminarEducationEsri is hosting a live training seminar entitled “Getting the Most out of ArcGIS Explorer Online” on August 18th (9am, 11am, and 3pm PDT). A Global Esri account is required (free registration) to attend the online seminar. Attendees will learn: How to create and share maps Which data types are supported, including geographic information system ... read more  GIS News: Hot-Spot Analysis, Map Suite for Windows 7GIS NewsThe latest roundup of geospatial industry news includes a software announcement from ThinkGeo, a new discussion over at Esri’s Spatial Roundtable, as well as company announcements from Topcon, Critigen, PCI Geomatics, Bentley, SuperGeo, and SSTL. ThinkGeo ThinkGeo has launched Map Suite Windows Phone Edition. The launch is aimed at allowing developers to implement interactive maps ... read more |
