Tag: Azavea
Summer GIS Opportunities
Summer is a great time for students to focus their efforts on learning more about GIS and developing hands on experience. Start lining up your GIS summer experience. Listed here are summer GIS opportunities. Esri User Conference Student Assistants Each year, Esri offers students the opportunity to work at the annual Esri User Conference hosted in [...]
Mapping Emancipation Events during the Civil War
University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab, with Azavea, a geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company, has launched “Visualizing Emancipation,” the first interactive map showing the end of American slavery during the U.S. Civil War. The application displays more than 3,000 geographically tagged emancipation events, such as reports of African Americans helping the Union, fugitive slave notices, [...]
WhatWasThere – Augmented Reality
WhatWasThere is an augmented reality application that features a growing online database of geolocated historical photos. You can search for photos nearby a location or upload and geotag your own historical photos. The database is in its early stages, there are over 10,000 photos covering the United States and a few spots in Canada and Latin [...]
GIS News: Airports GIS package, FixPhillyDistricts
Esri has two announcements today, the first about its Airports GIS package, and the second about the keynote speaker for its upcoming Esri Health GIS conference. Azavea is hosting an online redistricting contest and CARIS announces the location for its 2012 user conference. Esri Esri is now offering licenses for its Aeronautical Solution—Airports GIS Package. [...]
GIS News: Horn of Africa Drought, Image of the Week, OpenDataPhilly
The European Space Agency has released Horn of Africa drought imagery and its image of the week showing Patagonia. The OGC is seeking input on two projects, and Esri and Azavea both announced the availability of data from OpenDataPhilly. FIND Map, SuperGeo, Cadcorp, Timmons Group, eSpatial, and URISA round out the list of companies [...]
