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GIS Job Listing Sites

Filed in GIS Career and Jobs by Caitlin Dempsey on August 16, 2011 • 3 Comments
GIS Job Listing Sites

Looking for a job in the GIS field? One of the first places to start a search for a GIS job is on job listings sites that specifically list GIS jobs.  Not only can you browse for jobs, you can also post resumes on certain sites specializing in employment in the GIS industry. GIS Job [...]

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Tablets vs. Smartphones: Which One is Better for GIS Technology?

Filed in GIS News by Ruben Corbo on August 14, 2011 • 1 Comment
Tablets vs. Smartphones: Which One is Better for GIS Technology?

Believe it or not tablets first appeared on the technology scene over ten years ago. Still, despite their rich history, tablets have really only been making waves in the past few years. Both smartphones and tablets really only exploded onto the world scene in full force in 2010, and they seem to be in a [...]

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Why GIS Doesn’t Replace the Need for Surveyors

Filed in GIS News by John B. Guyton on November 19, 2010 • 2 Comments

With all the readily available aerial and satellite imagery, it is a legitimate questions to ask if GIS can be used to replace surveyors to understand property issues and to resolve legal disputes involving parcel lines.  The ability to access Google Maps or a local agency’s online mapping application to look up parcel lines and [...]

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Fun with GIS and Geography

Filed in GIS 101 - Learning GIS by Caitlin Dempsey on September 27, 2010 • 3 Comments
Fun with GIS and Geography

Take a break from your hectic day of mapping and spatial analysis with these fun links. Send a postcard, take a quiz, or learn some trivia. GIS Humor Time Humorous GIS videos posted on YouTube. About GeoCaching If you’ve been wondering what creative things you can do with your GPS unit you should learn about [...]

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Crowd Sourcing GIS Technical Knowledge

Filed in Community by Caitlin Dempsey on July 8, 2010 • 0 Comments
Crowd Sourcing GIS Technical Knowledge

A new collective knowledge effort is underway and looking for commitments.  From Matt Wilkie: gis.stackechange.com (not live yet) will be a Q&A site for programmers, DBAs, Cartographers, Geographers and anyone interested in GIS professionally. The incubation site is http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1425/geographic-information-systems What is Stack Exchange? Who better to answer than the founders, “…we’ve gotten used to the clean, fast, reliable [...]

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The Look of Maps: An Examination of Cartographic Design is a cartographic classic by Arthur H. Robinson originally published in 1952. The book was based on Robinson’s doctoral research “which investigated the relationship between science and art in cartography and the resultant refinement of graphic techniques in mapmaking to present dynamic geographic information.”

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