Informal Academic Advising and Other Educational Resources
>30 Second Words fully endorses the Chumby as an interesting platform and effective approach to content delivery. After bartering for artwork in exchange for an authentic endorsement (which we would have given anyway) for SwagBot, I thought I would demonstrate the Chumby using Chumby’s Create a Virtual Chumby application.
In this demonstration channel, are a [...]
Even though I made Wednesdays “no-blogging days” so that I can get some rest, the SP Gass at Low Tech Times has an interesting article called There’s No Substitute for Looking At A Real Map. Open Source Geography (dot org, FYI), soon to be moving to its own site, fully endorses this notion of looking [...]
So some GIS Specialist at Yale has figured out how to produce standardized areal units based on the geographic, latitude/longitude grid and how to produce it on a global scale. It is GIS of a sort. Definitely not an ESRI product, but could be converted.
The site is called G-CON, Geographically Based Economic Data. Note the [...]
Cross posted at Open Source Geography.
The Open-Source Geography Content has outgrown iand splintered its niche from 30 Second Words Podcast Productions. Previously published content, see below, will remain on the site, but all new Geography material will be published on Open Source Geography. We are not affiliated with OpenSource GIS or OpenSource Matters, [...]
Letter of MotivationThe term geographic relevance is new, but is still a familiar concept. With my Master of Science in the Geographic and Cartographic Science and ten years of work experience, I can offer a wide range of real-world contexts in which mobile computing could be studied. I have worked in the geographies [...]
This is a preview of the 30 Second Words podcast. These are short podcasts for students preparing for standardized tests, such as the GRE, PSAT,SAT,LSAT,GMAT,CLEP or any other test with a vocabulary component.
The first podcast can be found at Podango.com.
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The Low-Tech Times hopes that the volunteer army of GIS agents will not be using their hi-tech methods to help a political campaign target households with annoying uninvited campaign visits and unsolicited mailings. I believe web entrepreneur Jason Calacanis would consider efforts like those as counterproductive to the war on spam.
However, I must admit that [...]
I sometimes forget that ESRI is not the only thought leader in the world of Geographic Information Systems. The curators over at Open Source GIS , Ubuntu Users and that whole linux-based crowd of innovators have a lot to say on the matter of Geographic Thought. And to all the subsidiary mapping companies that [...]