How to Do Map Stuff: Live Online Tutorials
Cartographer Daniel Huffman has organized a series of online mapping workshops to be presented on Wednesday April 29th, 2020.
GIS and Cartography Material Available for Online Teaching
Several institutions and professors have offered up readily available online resources that can be used to virtual teach cartography and GIS courses.
How to Add Leader Lines to Labels in QGIS 3.10
The release of QGIS version 3.10 brought with it the native capability to add leader lines to labels.
Esri Debuts New Free Course on Spatial Data Science
Esri has unveiled a new massive open online course (MOOC) entitled, “Spatial Data Science: The New Frontier in Analytics.”
Digital Mapping Degree Tops Ranking of Most Unusual Degree
According to the staff at College Consensus, the University of Kentucky’s Master’s in Digital Mapping has been ranked as their top choice for most unusual college degree.
How to Calculate the Boundaries of an UTM Zone
A UTM coordinate system’s eastern and western borders can be easily determined.
EO College Offers Free Course About Remote Sensing
EO College, a platform for accessing MOOC (massive open online courses) about remote sensing along with other related materials was launched today.
Case Study: How Brindisi, Italy is Using GIS to Help Preserve its Ancient Architecture
The city of Brindisi, Italy deployed a solution from Pitney Bowes® that provides 80 to 90 percent faster performance, while dramatically improving the user-friendliness of maps and significantly reducing staff time dedicated to mapping.
Free Ways to Learn QGIS
If you want to start learning how to use QGIS, a free and open source GIS software package, there are some excellent free resources out there.
Free Synthetic Aperture Radar Handbook Available
This free handboo provides insight into how different Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) methodologies can be used for forest monitoring and biomass estimation.
Tutorial: Introduction to Geospatial Analysis in R
Watch this tutorial “Introduction to Geospatial Analysis in R” to learn how to import files into R, overlay layers, reduce spatial extent, select and reclassify values, and make a map.