L. Jesse Rouse

For those of you on campus today (2/18), I will be giving a ‘get your toes wet’ session on geospatial technologies at 3:30 in room 1246 Science Building. I hope to see you there, but if you can’t make it the handout and PowerPoint are available on my new workshops archive page.

Web mapping is connecting the general public with many spatial concepts in ways that even paper maps have not been able to do. With the wealth of tools out there, I touch on just a few of the apps that might be useful in the classroom.

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Raster datasets are a key to today’s web mapping applications and much of the earth science/Earth Observation activity.

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We are working with the Teaching and Learning Center to offer two hands-on workshops this spring. The first will be Introduction to Geospatial Technologies on Thursday, February 18th at 3:30pm. The second will be Finding and creating spatial data on Thursday, April 22 at 3:30pm. Each workshop will use ESRI’s ArcGIS software and Google Maps for the hands-on examples (though no previous experience is required) and will last approximately 2 hours or until the questions stop coming at me. To register to attend either of these workshops just reply to the email Dr Normandy will be sending out prior to each date or just send her an email with your interest.

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While the spatial characteristics are a key component of geographic information, the attributes connected to spatial data are just as important. I offer a few examples of attributes of the different data types we have talked about.

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Data is the basis of GIS. This week I talk about why topology is something to be mindful of when creating and using data and I provide a few examples.

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At UNC Pembroke we maintain a site license for ESRI’s ArcGIS suite of software, however there are are other options available for you to use as well such as Google Maps, QGIS, Bing Maps, and Google Earth.

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I hope that everyone has had a great break! With classes starting just around the corner I wanted to point out that Spatial@UNCP will be back up and running on a weekly basis (except for holidays of course) beginning January 14. Since I will be teaching GIS this semester many of the episodes will be playing double duty for the classroom and general info. With that in mind I will still try to limit the episodes to 5-6 minutes each.

If you ever have a topic you would like me to talk about on the podcast feel free to contact me.

Here is to an rewarding Spring 2010!

With the semester coming to an end I just wanted to wish everyone out there a happy holiday season. I look forward to getting more information up here in the New Year!

Each year in December we celebrate Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day.

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