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The following video wraps up the Spring 2013 GIS Workshop at the University of Kentucky. Read more about these partnerships here. أكثر...

This fall at Harvard, I'll be co-teaching Maps and Mapping with Charles Waldheim (chair of Landscape Architecture at the GSD). A course video has just been produced to promote the course on campus. Geography at Harvard! Course description: Mapping has been considered both an art and a science...

Ptolemy Windheads, ca.1490, Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library This spring I'm excited to be offering Critical & Social Cartography, a seminar in the Graduate School of Design (SES-5345). I've copied the course problematic and the weekly discussion topics below. Critical & Social...

[ Chris Alton, Zulaikha Ayub, Alex Chen, Leif Estrada, Justin Kollar, Patrick Leonard, Martin Pavlinic, Andreas Viglakis, Matthew Wilson ] Following a seminar in critical and social cartography at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, course participants set about writing a manifesto of sorts...

#Mapshop 2015 will focus on the NE quadrant of Lexington. GIS Workshop at the University of Kentucky is becoming Community Mapshop this Spring semester. I've retooled the course and the partnerships, hoping to inspire a different kind of community-based classroom project from those in 2013...

Community Mapshop 2015 has culminated in a series of outputs and engagements, but most recent among these, is our Atlas for a Community Mapshop. This is a compilation designed by a student in the course, Renae Mantooth, containing a number of the graphics and maps produced at the mid and final...

A Nicaraguan company has been convicted of theft of restricted cadastral information (the article is in Spanish, but there's auto-translation available on the page itself). On charges of disclosing confidential information and providing public access to classified information, two employees/...

Not a GIS topic per se, nor involving the Caribbean but, according to Ubuntu™, UK CESG has scored Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as the best when evaluating it, Windows, Apple, Android and other operating systems, in its guidance for End User Devices Security and Configuration in the UK public sector. The...

Governments at opposite ends of the Caribbean have put forward new legislation that concerns their respective National Spatial Data Infrastructures (NSDI). The Bahamas Spatial Data Infrastructure Programme (BSDI) Bill was moved on Jan 8, 2014 in the Bahamas House of Assembly, and the National...

Here's a simple but fabulous GIS application developed by the Belize Water Service (BWS) and TBSL on ArcGIS Online, showing how to reliably and more easily inform citizens about mundane but important city administration actions. (Where there's a will, there's a spatial dataset and ...). This is...

Jamaica has become the first country to implement nation-wide the free health and hospital information system - GNU Health™. It does not include a GIS or mapping component as far as I can tell, though it does provide 'epidemiological and other statistical reports'. Though free it is not Open...

Open Source GIS is here to stay it seems. The/ one of the leading software providers, ESRI says, '[ESRI] supports more than 200 open source projects in our GitHub organization, and over 600 Esri developers that directly collaborate on these and numerous other personal open-source projects. We...

An interesting proof of concept that generated 3D data over tropical forest (DEM and height of trees) using drones (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) to fly LiDAR sensors has been completed in French Guiana. Interestingly though drones have limitations such as range compared to small aircraft and...

ESRI is supporting the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) 'Making Cities Resilient' initiative, that will help countries around the world, and their cities in particular, map and visualize their disaster risk. This adds to the splendid support ESRI has already shown for the Obama...

Trinidad & Tobago (Surveys & Mapping Division) will soon complete high-resolution aerial mapping of the entire country, with imagery and elevation data being produced. Statements by the Hon. Minister of Land & Marine Resources and the Commissioner of State Lands have been reported indicating...

Here's a very listenable talk from a 2014 URISA conference about what is Open Source and Open Source Web Mapping, with descriptions of three cases of actual implementation. Here's an alternative link to the 26 min video as well. Thanks Alan. أكثر...

The Bahamas Postal Services will release a new series of stamps on July 21 in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Bahamas National Geographic Information Systems (BNGIS) Centre (July 26, 2004). The special issue of four stamps features a 15 cent stamp, a 50 cent stamp, a 65 cent stamp and a...

Here is an interesting take on a better global reference system. What3Words (W3W) divides the world into 3x3m spaces (57 Trillion of them) and assigns each a specific 3-word address. So giving someone your address apparently becomes easier. Or does it? I can see how telling, emailing or texting...

Here's another attempt at a global reference system. MapCode has assigned short postcode-like codes to all parts of the globe. Though its method is not fully described it does seem to be systematic - for instance, the position with mapcode GUY 9Z.LK is located between GUY 9Z.LJ and GUY 9Z.LL...

The Belgian doctors who first described Ebola fever to western medicine in 1976 asked three questions whilst investigating the epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire) - one was 'Where?'. These doctors diligently made maps from their information to help understand and defeat...