The VT Center for Geographic Information is partnering with UNH Extension to bring two hands-on workshops to VT Technical College in Randolph on March 30. $50/workshop.
1) 9AM – NOON: Learn how to make interactive and 3D maps using free Google mapping tools! This course explores the basics of Google Earth and Google Maps with [...]
Haiti is in the western one-third of the island of Hispaniola between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. This small, tropical country is west of the Dominican Republic and is south of the island of Cuba.
The land is mountainous. Hayti is the Indian name for the country and means “land of the mountains.” [...]
The Newberry Library’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography is pleased to announce its 2010 NEH summer institute, “Mapping and Art in the Americas.” The five-week institute, led by James Akerman (a geographer and Director of the Smith Center) and Diane Dillon (an art historian and the Newberry’s Assistant Director of Research [...]
Some of these quizzes are simple but some are quite difficult. Fun place to test your knowledge. Geography Quizzes
A new interactive website featuring SHOWUSA and SHOWWorld. Both feature hundreds of animated maps, with descriptions, showing all kinds of data about the 50 states and the countries of the world. The site is accessible to the public at no charge and without registration…more
The Fourth Grade at Aviston Elementary, located in southern Illinois, is learning about the United States and the different environments, climates, resources, and highlights found in each region. …
A recent poll found that most young adults know little about world geography, and very little more about their own country. But, at the Mast Way elementary school in Lee, New Hampshire, one fourth grade teacher is leading the charge to change that. See the video here
This is our tenth year, and we are very excited about it! It will be this Wednesday, November 12, 2008.
GIS Day is an outreach event that brings hundreds of high school juniors and
seniors together with hundreds of geo-spatial science professionals, university
level educators, and the general public to learn more about the important
contributions that geography and geo-spatial science make in all of our lives.
The following link will take you to a short video of Giant Maps in action.
Giant Asia Map comes to town.
Video courtesy of the Washington Geographic Alliance.
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