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Bicentennial of the New Madrid Earthquakes: Seismic Calamity along the...
On December 16, 1811 a violent earthquake shattered a winter night along the Mississippi River Valley in an area of present-day northeast Arkansas. While the region was sparsely settled at the time,...
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Titanic's Geography & Classes
We observe the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic by map-enabling its passenger list. This latest story map from Esri adds a different dimension to the Titanic, a more personal geographic...
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Fun With GIS 117: The Future of the Past
As a kid, history baffled me. I floundered in the whirlpool of names, dates, and variably detailed accounts. I saw no pattern, no threads of organization. It was not until college, when I studied...
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Reflections on Terraserver and the Evolution of Data for GIS
Back in 1998, I and my colleagues were thrilled with the arrival of Terraserver. While maps and images for use in GIS on the web today are commonplace, back then it was revolutionary. Suddenly, thanks...
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Election, ArcGIS Online, History and GIS, webmapping, curriculum, ArcLessons
I have created a data set containing electoral history for the past 56 years in ArcGIS Online, so you and your students can interact with it, teach with it, and explore patterns. To accompany the data...
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“The illiterate of the 21st century,” wrote Alvin Toffler, “will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Toffler’s words seem particularly appropriate...
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East Dakota, West Dakota
East Dakota and West Dakota GIS is often used to help us understand the world as it is, or was in the past, or model what it could be like in the future. But it can also be used to explore what could...
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Using Local Live GIS Portals in Education
Many organizations are putting their information on a smart map–by using ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Server technologies–to make their operations more efficient, The portal from Keith County, Nebraska...
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Beyond Mapping: Compilation of 25 Years of Essays and Activities about GIS
The Beyond Mapping Compilation Series of the 25-year run of the “Beyond Mapping” column by Dr. Joseph K. Berry in GeoWorld is finally “soup.” The nearly 1000 pages and more than 750 figures in the...
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Interpreting Our World: New book on 100 Revolutions in Geography
Looking for a new way to teach and learn about geography? I have written a new book entitled Interpreting Our World: 100 Discoveries that Revolutionized Geography, described in this video. This book...
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