ESRI’s MOOC Going Spatial: Week 3
Area, counts and data. This week became more tricky than ever. You faced the concepts of density and chorophlet maps. You were confronted with the MAUP and with…
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ESRI’s MOOC Going Spatial: Week 2
This week ESRI will come to the real analysis of spatial data. You will get an insight into the connection between “research question” and projection, why is Mercator…
ESRI’s MOOC Going Spatial: Week 1
After some uncertainty about the setup and the infrastructure of the first ESRI MOOC on the linkedin group and on the ESRI forum I was able to go…
short announcement: ESRI MOOC – the outline
As we already informed here about the new ESRI MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) we also stated, that it is a pitty that there is no schedule available.…
short announcement: ESRI MOOC scheduled
The rumors in the geo-bloggosphere gone crazy last weeks as ESRI announced an own-hosted MOOC (Massive Open Online Course): Tweets über “ESRI Mooc” They already featured this one here…
odyssey.js: your easy story mapping engine
Reading my tweets can be somehow interesting: It seems like ESRI invented and exclusively owns the phrase “story map”: #storymap Tweets What IS a story map? To me…
Create your own StoryMap
Have you seen “the story maps” created on the ESRI website (http://storymaps.arcgis.com) or for that matter from http://storymap.knightlab.com/ or http://mapstory.org/. They are all frameworks for you to create…
short announcement: new MOOC from our ESRI friends at Redlands
Today I came across this little page via a linkedin group (Link): This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is for people who know something about data analysis and…
ArcGIS server vs. Open Source GIS solutions
originally posted from our friends @mappinggis Which program is better suited to serve geographic data on the web? ArcGIS Server form ESRI or open source ? This question is common in mailing lists…
Mr. Dangermond, money and the need to work with ArcGIS
The last week one headline hit the floor of some GIS-blogs in the US: Jack Dangermond, the founder of GIS -ahm I mean ESRI- pledged about $1 billion…
GIS as a profession: the GISP
“A GISP is a certified geographic information systems (GIS) professional who has met the minimum standards for ethical conduct and professional practice as established by the GIS Certification…
georeferencing images in QGIS using OSM data: how to distort the City
You probably already referenced maps with written coordinates but using photos or images is a little different as you need some characteristic points so you can control the…