Northern Virginia Community College - Geospatial Studies Program

01/04/2017

CityLab

CityLab

This project from MIT reveals where the streets are greenest, and which ones could use more work.

12/19/2016

Students! Tell Your Story as Part of the International Year of Global Understanding | Esri Insider

Students! Tell Your Story as Part of the International Year of Global Understanding | Esri Insider

These days we could all use a little more understanding. As noted by Lord Anthony Giddens, former Director of the London School of Economics: “We live in the most interconnected world in history. Yet at the same time, the world is driven by conflicts, dislocations and uncertainties – an unsettling a...

11/17/2016

This Is the Real Political Map of America—We Are Not That Divided

A reminder to think about how you present data.

http://gizmodo.com/5960290/this-is-the-real-political-map-of-america-hint-we-are-not-that-divided?utm_medium=sharefromsite

This is the real political map of the United States of America after the presidential election. A fascinating view, much different from the maps you saw that night, which showed an artificial, binary divide. But these maps demonstrate that there is not such a huge gap between rural and urban America...

11/14/2016

How do I activate my .gov/.mil/.edu free subscription?

If you'd like a free digital subscription to the Washington Post, use your NOVA email account.

http://help.washingtonpost.com/link/portal/15067/15080/Article/628/How-do-I-activate-my-gov-mil-edu-free-subscription

3. If you are already registered with a .gov/.mil/.edu email address that is eligible for a free subscription, sign in with that. If not, create an account with your email address.*

08/15/2016

A Career Built on Side Projects

Food for thought for those of you who are thinking about developing a business alongside your main career or building your GIS experience.

https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2016/08/10/a-career-built-on-side-projects/

I am asked, from time to time, how I have managed to make it as a freelancer (so far). For those who are unwise enough to rely upon me for advice, I generally offer two major comments: first off, t…

07/13/2016

American Geographical Society

American Geographical Society

Developer Dan Vanderkam teamed with the NYPL The New York Public Libraryto create a Google Street View map of New York City in the 1800s.

04/18/2016

Maptime DC

Meetup tomorrow: All About Projections!

http://www.meetup.com/Maptime-DC/events/230325794

The map is wrong! All maps are wrong! If you've seen that West Wing clip calling for schools to use different maps, or stumbled on that xkcd projection comic, you know that there are different wa

04/04/2016

Wiehle’s legacy lives on in Reston

Have you ever wondered where the name Wiehle Avenue came from? #placename #geography #maps

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/wiehles-legacy-lives-on-in-reston/2012/04/03/gIQA67E3uS_story.html

Seventy-five years before Robert E. Simon purchased 6,750 acres of Northern Virginia countryside in 1961 for $13 million — and turned it into what is known today as Reston — another wealthy entreprene...

03/30/2016

Church of Geography

Also on NPR this morning...

This is where we are now.
http://www.citylab.com/weather/2016/03/usgs-map-human-induced-earthquake-map/475800/?utm_source=SFFB

03/23/2016

Fact Sheet: The White House Launches The Opportunity Project,” Utilizing Open Data to Build...

Fact Sheet: The White House Launches The Opportunity Project,” Utilizing Open Data to Build...

In the lead up to the President's historic visit to SxSW, today the Administration is announcing the launch of “The Opportunity Project,” a new open data effort to improve economic mobility for all Americans. As the President said in his State of the Union address, we must harness 21st century techn…

03/15/2016

This Map Shows What People In Each State Are Binge Watching On Netflix

http://distractify.com/geek/2016/03/07/this-map-shows-what-people-in-our-state-are-binge-watching-on-netflix?utm_content=inf_10_53_2&tse_id=INF_d19be0e0996640bab54a156871be6cf5

Everyone is using Netflix.

03/15/2016

Millie the Mapper | Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at The Library Of Congress

Thanks to Melanie F. for sharing this great article!

http://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2016/03/millie-the-mapper

Millie the Mapper. A blog post at "Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at The Library Of Congress" on 2016-03-11.

03/14/2016

Maptime DC

If you missed the NoVa Mini Maker Faire and the awesome Women in GIS demonstrating OSM, register for tomorrow's OSM intro with Maptime DC.

http://www.meetup.com/Maptime-DC/events/229450027/?rv=md1

Join us for an Intro to OpenStreetMap (OSM)- a great way to introduce yourself to the world of map making. OSM is a map of the world, created by people like you, free to use under an open license and

03/14/2016

Intricately Color-Coded Maps Marking Bomb Damage from the London Blitz

Atlas Obscura is a great source of interesting maps. This is a really fantastic topic with what appear to be hand-coded maps.

See the tragic effects of the aerial bombardment on London’s landscape.

03/07/2016

U.S. States Open Data Census

Are you curious about how states rank in terms of "open" data? This census (little c, not the Bureau) has your answer (in part): https://census.usopendata.org/

This is a census of the data holdings of nine key datasets by U.S. states, conducted by U.S. Open Data. This is a work in progress. All 50 states and D.C. and Puerto Rico are included. Bulk census data may be obtained via Google Sheets. Feedback may be sent to [email protected] or provided in the fo…

02/23/2016

Census Bureau Plans to Hire 40 Geographers: Students Encouraged to Apply

http://news.aag.org/2016/02/census-bureau-plans-to-hire-40-geographers-students-encouraged-to-apply/

The Census Bureau is looking to hire 40 geographers for positions in the Office of the Associate Director for Decennial Census. Details about the positions are available at USAJobs.gov and the link…

02/23/2016

Summer of Maps - Paid summer fellowships for student GIS analysts to perform pro bono work for...

http://summerofmaps.org

Paid summer fellowships for student GIS analysts to perform pro bono work for non-profits

02/22/2016

Half of the US population lives in the 244 super-dense counties

http://www.businessinsider.com/densest-counties-in-america-2015-7

Population density in the US varies wildly from place to place.

02/19/2016

British Archeologists Have Discovered Long-Lost Roman Roads Using LIDAR

British Archeologists Have Discovered Long-Lost Roman Roads Using LIDAR

For years, the United Kingdom’s Environment Agency has been using Lidar to study flooding and coastal changes. Since 1998, it’s had an unexpected use: discovering long-lost roads left by the Romans, helping to uncover new details of the country’s past.

02/18/2016

NPR

NPR

Using "a super high tech version of Google Earth," you too will be able to help unearth the secrets of ancient civilizations.

01/29/2016

USAID's GoPro-vulture approach to environmental awareness ... yes, really. | Devex

Thinking outside the resource management box.

#geoawesomeness #geography #tech #technology

The U.S. Agency for International Development faced a tricky challenge in Peru’s bustling urban centers. How do you raise citizen awareness and concern about a critical natural environment most city dwellers will never have the opportunity to see?

01/26/2016

How to Cite GIS Materials ~ GIS Lounge

You still need to consider the type of citation you are following, but this may be helpful.

How do you cite GIS materials such as map, GIS data, and GIS software? Listed here are examples on how to cite GIS work.

01/15/2016

A terrifying and hilarious map of squirrel attacks on the U.S. power grid

Squirrel!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/12/a-terrifying-and-hilarious-map-of-squirrel-attacks/

Finally, a way to measure the bushy-tailed threat

12/22/2015

CityLab

Need something to do over break? Try your hand at transcribing whaling log books for Old Weather. Imagine what you could do with these data - so many possibilities! #placinghistory #dataisspatial

Calling all amateur scientists and historians

12/12/2015

Mapping 65 Years of Explosive Urban Growth Around the World

Mapping 65 Years of Explosive Urban Growth Around the World

This delightfully user-friendly data viz tracks city population trajectories.

11/19/2015

Get to Know a Projection | WIRED

Projection speed-dating?

http://www.wired.com/tag/get-to-know-a-projection/

The fascinating backstory behind the azimuthal orthographic, the map projection that makes flat maps look like 3-D globes.

11/19/2015

How to Tell a Story with Data

GIS 295 has been using maps to communicate this semester. How do you tell your story?

http://visage.co/how-to-tell-a-story-with-data/

How do you tell a story with data? Here are the 5 steps.

11/13/2015

State of Satellite Imagery

http://satsummit.github.io/landscape/

Exploratory, and collaboratory, review of current and upcoming satellite tools for development, from capture, distribution, analysis and applications.

11/12/2015

Maps Mania: Road-Trip Mix-Tapes with Google Maps

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2015/11/road-trip-mix-tapes-with-google-maps.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GoogleMapsMania+%28Google+Maps+Mania%29

11/10/2015

Maya Lin Used 168,000 Marbles to Model the Chesapeake Bay

Sorta-kinda map-related.

The artist’s highly imaginative waterway was created using satellite imagery from NASA

11/09/2015

Huge Repository of Georeferenced Field Photos Made Available by the USGS - Geolounge

Huge Repository of Georeferenced Field Photos Made Available by the USGS - Geolounge

The USGS recently made its large repository of georeference photos available via a map-based browser, the Land Cover Trends Field Photo Map interface.

11/05/2015

Inside Airbnb: Washington. Adding data to the debate.

http://insideairbnb.com/washington-dc/

Inside Airbnb is a set of independent tools and open data that allows you to explore how Airbnb is being used in cities around the world.

11/03/2015

Washington's systemic streets

Have you ever wondered?

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/3151/washingtons-systemic-streets/

Visitors and residents of Washington, DC know, to one degree or another, about the city's street naming conventions. Most tourists know that we have lettered and numbered streets. And to some degree, they know there is a system, but it doesn't stop them asking us directions. But most out-of-towners…

10/23/2015

HackShopDC

If you are interested in data analysis and visualization, check out HackShop, a new Meetup group for data nerds. :) http://www.meetup.com/HackShopDC/

HackShopDC is a group of civic-minded hackers that get together to tackle a specific DC issue or dataset. At each meetup we'll analyze and visualize a different open dataset to bring insight to all fa