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GIS and Map Contests Roundup

April 5, 2017By Caitlin DempseyGIS Learning

Current map and GIS related competitions listed in order of the competition deadline.

Be Aware of the Proposed Geospatial Data Act (GDA) of 2017

The Geospatial Data Act (GDA) of 2017 is being reintroduced in Congress. Passage of this bill would have a severe impact on the GIS industry.

Using Free and Open Source GIS to Support Natural Resource Management in the Developing World

Rohan Fisher (Research Institute of Environment and Livelihood, Charles Darwin University) discusses the GIS capacity building work he has undertaken over the last 14 years in Eastern Indonesia and the recent launch of a bilingual open source training manual for SAGA GIS to enable decentralised evidence-based natural resource management in the developing world.

Elements of a Map

Maps are the primary tools by which spatial relationships are visualized. Maps therefore become important documents. There are several key elements that should be included each time a map is created in order to aid the viewer in understanding the communications of that map and to document the source of […]

Learn GIS for Free

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