The Skidmore College GIS Center for Interdisciplinary Research is hiring. Currently we have an opening for a paid full time employee for the summer of 2012. There also are positions working in the *new* GIS Center as a student assistant in fall 2012. Specifically for students, we are also looking at for-credit project internships, especially...
Hello, and welcome to Spring 2012. Things are starting to ramp up in the GIS Center for the semester. We plan on making some improvements to several of our past projects. These are mostly server-based, so hopefully you won’t notice, but they will provide a more solid infrastructure for Layar, Ushahidi, and GeoServer. The other...
Price Chopper vs. Wegmans Supermarkets Spend a lifetime in your Saratoga Springs Price Chopper supermarket and you might overhear but a murmur—while Price Chopper markets abound in Saratoga (we have three!), upstate New York’s other supermarket titan, Wegman’s, is entirely absent. That murmur thus begs the question: why is Price Chopper Saratoga’s dominant supermarket? Where...
We’re thrilled to bring you this week’s map in a new format. Over the past several weeks, we’ve worked to bring you dynamic maps, so that you may move around and further explore the mapped data. Today, we bring you the result: If you have any issues viewing or interacting with the map please post...
Here is the solution to Mystery Map VIII. On Skidmore’s campus and beyond, debate rages concerning the morality, feasibility, and economic dynamics of the hydraulic fracturing of shales, or “fracking”—the process of fracturing deeply buried shales to exploit otherwise-inaccessible gas resources. In spite of heated discourse on the issue, however, many people lack a fundamental...
The GIS Center would like to introduce you to a new mystery map. What do you think this map represents? It is undoubtedly a curious distribution across the United States, highlighting two facets of some phenomenon….. You know the drill…leave a guess in the comments. Free T-shirt to the first Skidmore student who gets it...
GRASS and QGIS are two open source and free pieces of GIS software. After examining them, you may want to install them and try them out. I recently walked through the process of installing these applications and their required frameworks on a Mac. Although it was straightforward enough for me, I figured that it could be beneficial...
Hello, and welcome to Fall 2011! We here in the GIS Center are looking forward to bringing you some quality content this upcoming semester. We’ll be posting a series of mystery maps, the conclusion to our WiFi mapping experiment, and any reports of seismic events from Skidmore’s seismograph. (At the least.) We’re sure to stumble...
(SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY) – Did you feel any shaking on Tuesday, August 23, 2011, a little before 2pm? It would have been for between 20 and 30 seconds. Well if you did, it was likely the magnitude 5.9 earthquake outside of Mineral, Virginia, which struck at 1:51pm and occurred 3.7 miles below the surface of...
The Skidmore College GIS Center for Interdisciplinary Research is hiring two new students for the fall semester. The job is focused on developing advanced knowledge and skills in spatial data management and analysis through development of campus data, database administration, and the support of research projects. The Lab Assistant will also work on pilot testing...
In Fall 2010 the Skidmore College GIS Center for Interdisciplinary Research decided to add a little mystery to the Skidmore Campus. Alex Chaucer coordinated with his student assistants, Sarah Llewleyn ’12, Greg Lloyd ’11, Aaron Miller ’12 and Andrew Noone ’11 to create a series of mystery maps for the campus to try and figure...
At the ESRI International User Conference, and I wanted to try embedding a webmap into a WordPress Blog. This map searches for geotagged Tweets and Flickr photos around the San Diego Conference center that mention “esriuc” Check it out. While this is just a demo, I see great opportunities for embedding web maps into blogs....
