GIS, maps teach Los Angeles high school students about not just STEM, but the meaning of what makes a community. For history teacher Mariana Ramirez and English teacher Alice Im, education is viewed ...
The web-based tool combines Geographic Information System mapping with links to project websites and other data about all waterfront projects. The Greater Cleveland Partnership says it will monitor ...
How are mapping projects changing the way that we understand our history of racism, segregation and prejudice in America? A number of digital projects are now using GIS (geographic information systems ...
In what ways does a history of racist policies impact and influence our experiences today? How can educators teach their students about the historic impacts of racism on their own communities? These ...
Forget cartography: Maps also serve humanistic inquiry. When I can't coax students to participate, I'll pull up a map and marvel at their volubility. In fact, I often use Saul Steinberg's famous New ...
In 1999, WWF helped set up a project that represented a unique marriage between Aboriginal traditional ecological and cultural knowledge and the latest in western technology. Kowanyama is a community ...
Westminster is launching an archaeological study of its downtown historic district, and the newly digitized data could offer a “first-in-the-nation” service to downtown property owners. With some ...
DALLAS — For more than four years, Larry Johnson has been cleaning the Oak Cliff Cemetery, which is less than a mile from where he was raised. “When we first started this work back in 2019, all this ...
Applying GIS, remote sensing, and data science to advance conservation outcomes The IIC Conservation GIS Lab provides an opportunity for W&M students to apply their GIS, remote sensing, and data ...
It is a Monday morning in early December, and the 20 students in professor Jack Loveless’ Mapping Our World: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems course are clustered in small groups around ...
In Australia’s fastest growing city, the future begins underground. By 2036, the South East Queensland metro area will add another 1.5 million residents—a number that, by itself, would be Australia’s ...