April 3, 2013

Developing Auditory Maps for the Blind

Human beings navigate through their environment by developing a mental understanding of spatial relationships known as a spatial cognitive maps. Spatial cognitive maps for most people involves using visual information to development an understanding of the spatial relationship between the person and other objects. For those that are blind or have severe visual impairments, other senses such as hearing, are ...

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GIS Survey: GIS Certification

Do you have a GIS certification such as a GISP or an Esri technical certification? Fill out the survey to explain why you do or do not hold a certification.

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Exploring Map Projections

Created using D3, Map Projection Transitions provides an excellent way to visualize a wide range of map projections. The page was created by Jason Davies, a freelance data visualization consultant.

Map projection visualizations offers the user a glimpse at what forty-one different projections look like. Users can select one of the map projections from the ...

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Free eBook About Online GIS

A free eBook is available for downloading that reviews some of the online GIS and web mapping options. Online gis and web map publication platforms are reviewed in this fifty page PDF publication: ArcGIS Online, CartoDB, GeoCommons, GISCloud, MangoMap and MapBox. The intent of the PDF is to provide readers with an overview of each of those mapping applications.

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AAG Annual Meeting

Attend the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographer for the latest in research and applications in geography, sustainablity, and GIScience. The meeting will be held from April 9 to April 13, 2013 in Los Angeles, and will feature over 6,000 presentations, posters, workshops, and field trips by leading scholars, experts, and researchers.

For more information, visit www.aag.org/annualmeeting.

GIS Jobs

• GIS Programmer | Little Rock, AR
• Senior (GIS) Web Developer | Jacksonville, FL
• GIS Developers | Washington DC and Virginia Beach, VA
• EAM/GIS Consultant | Virginia Beach, VA / Virtual
• GIS Developer | Okinawa, Japan

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Geospatial Book Pick

Esri Press has republished C. Dana Tomlin's foundational text, Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling, originally printed in 1990. The book has been revised and reissued under the title GIS and Cartographic Modeling .

Upcoming GIS Events

• GIS Webinar: Overview of TerraPhoto for Airborne Data
  Date(s): Thursday, April 4, 2013 ~ Time:1:30 PM - 2:30 AM CDT
  Location: Online

• AAG Annual Meeting
  Date(s): April 9 to 13, 2013
  Location: Los Angeles, CA

• CalGIS 2013
  Date(s): April 15 - 17, 2013
  Location: Long Beach, CA

• 8th National GIS Symposium
  Date(s): April 15 – 17, 2013
  Location: Al-Dammam City, Saudi Arabia

• First Asia Pacific 3D Documentation Conference
  Date(s): April 25 – 26, 2013
  Location: Marina Mandarin Hotel, Singapore

• Geospatial World Forum
  Date(s): May 13 - 15, 2013
  Location: Beurs-World Trade Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

• Geoweb Summit
  Date(s): May 23, 2013 - 4pm - 9pm
  Location: Brooklyn, NY

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Geospatial Industry News

• University of Putra, Malaysia Improves Research Skills with Android-powered SuperSurv 3.1
• NJVC Cloudcuity Management Portal to Provide Secure Cloud Brokerage Services to the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium in 2013: NJVC to Lead Geospatial Community Cloud Demonstration
• GTG Announces the Release of Vantage Points Dispatch
• Caliper Offers Updated Australia Data for Use with Maptitude 2013
• Supergeo Partnership with GEOSAM S.A.C. in Peru
• Preliminary list of presentations released for the 2013 Washington GIS Conference
• GTG Continues Its Successful Student Interns Initiative
• Updated Brazil Data for Use with Maptitude Mapping Software 2013
• Bluesky’s EC Funded Renewable Energy Project Reaches Halfway Landmark
• American Sentinel University Details New Innovative Education Strategy at Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting

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Free Trade Publication

GPS World: covers GPS/GNSS-related news to high-level corporate managers, project and engineering managers, product designers, researchers, and system developers.

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GIS Essentials

• Building a Career in GIS
• Finding a GIS Internship
• GIS Certification versus Certificate Programs
• Distance Learning – GIS Certificate and Degree Programs
• Open Source GIS and Freeware GIS Applications