Summary: Last month Penn State University and Directions Media presented a webinar titled The New Geospatial Jobs and How to be Ready for Them (archived version). A total of 940 people registered for the event. We received more questions than could be answered. We asked the hosts to respond to them in two articles. 

Last month Penn State University and Directions Media presented a webinar titled... More

Here's an excellent example of colleges and universities working together to achieve articulation to allow our students a more seamless pathway to a better career.  We are proud of this work being based, in part, on research performed by the GeoTech Center.  The articulation document referenced here has been posted on the Resource Center under Curriculum (page 2).

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I hope the fall... More

We just concluded our webinar with Amy Work of IAGT. Please take a (58) moments to listen . There are many barriers to getting GIS Across the Curriculum, such as technology barriers, licensing, lack of technical training, or simply no one is aware of it! Amy presents us with several interesting scenarios. Many of the webinar participants have already approached this challenge with innovative... More

The Georgia chapter of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA ) holds an annual career day on the second Tuesday of April. Each year the Georgia URISA awards the Thomas Mettille Student Achievement award for outstanding Geographic Information Science (GIS) projects in K12, undergraduate and graduate categories for Georgia students. This year the event fell on April 13, 2010... More

FOSS4G Barcelona 2010 Conference—Who Can Say “No” to “Free”?

This Labor Day weekend concludes a heavy summer of travel around the US attending geo-conferences, including GITA 2010 in Phoenix, Esri 2010 in San Diego, and GeoWeb 2010 in Vancouver, with a trip to the Free and Open Source Software For Geospatial (FOSS4G) here in Barcelona, Catalonia, Espana. With the exception of Esri, it’s... More