This is the new GIS blog for W&L. W&L faculty, students, and staff who are involved in GIS will find this blog interesting, but outsiders are welcome as well. You'll find news, activities, ideas, issues, and other GIS related content here, and I encourage folks to comment.
If you find news or ideas that you want posted, please contact me.
If you're wondering what all this talk about GIS is about, subscribing to this blog will help.
What is GIS?
From GIS.com:
"GIS is a collection of computer hardware, software, and geographic data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information."Following is a list of websites that describe GIS and GIS projects:
http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/index.cfm
What is GIS?
What can you do with GIS?
GIS Showcase
ESRI Website
ESRI News Feeds
I have added a GIS page to the Library Wiki. Go to http://library.wlu.edu/wiki/, and click on GIS in the sidebar. From here you can read about news and events for W&L's GIS program. This wiki is public, which means that anyone at W&L can edit it. If there's an announcement you'd like to make, post it to the wiki.
If you don't know what a wiki is, see what Wikipedia says about it. When you decide to edit the wiki, look at the documentation and formatting rules. My only request is that you only edit the GIS page. There are other pages on this wiki that are not associated with GIS and are maintained by other librarians. Please respect their work and do not edit these pages.
There is a new listserv for GIS users at W&L, GISUG@wlu.edu. If you are interested in subscribing, please visit http://lapps1.wlu.edu/majordomo/cgi-bin/majordomo.pl and choose "gisug" from the drop-down menu.
Any member of the W&L community is welcome to join.
This is a little bit old, but a friend of mine recently sent me a link to a "generic names for soft drinks" map. What do you call your favorite carbonated beverage? Are you the norm in your county? Of course, some population data would make this map even more interesting.
This is just another interesting way to use data in a GIS to create a very striking presentation. (Click the image to view full size.)
This page contains an archive of all entries posted to GIS @ W&L in the General category. They are listed from oldest to newest.
Events is the previous category.
Issues is the next category.
Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.