GIS Service Learning Class in the news
http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2014/12/03/gisservicelearning/
GIS in the news
10 Skills the Future Workforce will Need: Connections to GIS
Article by Joseph Kerski, ESRI Education Manager.
Help fight the Ebola outbreak with GIS
See this article to learn how you can help to map the spread of Ebola. Read the whole article to learn more about how crowd-sourced mapping is an effective tool in fighting disease outbreaks.
Video map of 1000 years of European border changes
http://www.viralforest.com/watch-1000-years-european-borders-change/
Which state matches your temperament?
America’s Mood Map: An Interactive Guide to the United States of Attitude
ChangeMatters: useful site for detecting change in Landsate images
Imagery comparison story map from ESRI. Search any location: try Middletown.
US Census Interactive Mapping Tool
An interactive map to visualize changes in eight census data sets between the 1990 Census, 2000 Census, and 2012 ACS Survey. The data sets: Total population; Percent 65 and older; Foreign-born population percentage; Percent of the population with a high school degree or higher; Percent with a bachelor’s degree or higher; Labor force participation rate; … Read more
World Population Data
High resolution, contemporary data on human population distributions: http://www.worldpop.org.uk/