By juhrovic on 12/18/2007 4:04 PM

 

 

After exams we all need a little something light. Maybe the GIS center and MIUS should consider coming up with its own GIS Day song for our upcoming GIS Day on February 4. Any suggestions?

By juhrovic on 12/12/2007 12:36 PM

Artist Paula Scher has been featured in the Maya Stendhall Gallery several times over the past year.   You can view her artwork featured at the museum below.

Paula Scher: The Maps  From the Gallery’s web site: “This show, consists of a series of twelve large-scale canvases — intricate, colorful and obsessively detailed maps of different regions of the world. THE MAPS is the culmination of over a decade of work, well-worth the effort for these timeless, striking canvases.” To view her work select the painting link from this page. 

Also, you can view a follow up to her "The Maps" "..series to create h ... Read More »

By juhrovic on 12/11/2007 1:07 PM

Find GIS has added a few new resources under "Groups and Resources". Now you can find GIS Case Studies, GIS Whitepapers, and Calls for GIS Papers/Abstracts.

Find GIS is a good website to help you locate data resources for Florida as well as news, GIS events, and GIS education and courses.

By juhrovic on 12/6/2007 3:34 PM

Podcast lecture by Dr. Ryan Williams, Curator of Archeological Sciences at the Field Museum. Dr. Williams takes a look at how GPS and other technology is helping archeologists learn more about the ancient world. This is part of the “Maps: Finding our Place in the World” exhibit at the Field Museum.  Take a virtual tour of the exhibit here.

By juhrovic on 12/4/2007 2:03 PM

"The Carbon Project announces the release of a new version of its free Gaia software, Gaia 3.1 Beta 2, as part of the 2007 National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Cooperative Agreement Program (CAP). Gaia 3.1 is a free Windows application for accessing, visualizing and sharing location content, including the latest NSDI Framework Data services. "

Gaia 3.1 Beta 2 may be downloaded at no cost from http://www.thecarbonproject.com/gaia.php.

Read More about this here.

By juhrovic on 12/3/2007 9:39 AM

The first issue of MIUS News is now available.  This Newsletter will be published twice a year, once in the fall and once in the spring. Read it now to learn what is happening in MIUS.

By juhrovic on 11/28/2007 3:34 PM

GeoNames is a free and opensource geographical database. "It integrates world-wide geographical data including names of places in various languages, elevation, population, and all latitude / longitude coordinates". This interview with Marc Wick gives you a better understanding of GeoNames and some interesting background about the project.

By juhrovic on 11/27/2007 4:15 PM

You can now view EPA's up to date air quality data from AIRNow in Google Earth.  Data is updated hourly for all major cities in the United States and is easily accesible.  All you need to do is open the AIRNow tool (in KML format) in your Google Earth Browser.