Student Google Earth Projects – Art 357, Digital Sketchbook
My students in Art 357: Digital Sketchbook just finished their Google Earth/Creative Cartography projects. The idea is to make an “Alternative Map” of campus, using Google Earth, photos, audio and video as well as 3D models and custom icons. This is an ongoing project for this class. Download the Google Earth KMZs here. above –...
Mystery Map IV
Here’s our next mystery map, located at Skidmore College. Observe the red and green dots. What is this a map of? There also appears to be something else unusual about this map… Does anyone from Skidmore notice something strange?
Augmenting Reality
Last academic year, the Skidmore GIS Center began to experiment with augmented reality and mobile devices in order to investigate how these technologies could be applied on campus and in the classroom. This last month the project has successfully passed through the alpha stage, and the GIS Center has published the Skidmore Campus Map using Layar....
Mystery Map III Revealed
The previous mystery map documented red eft sightings
Mystery Map III
We present to you the third installment of the mystery map series. For this week’s map we have several hints. The area covered is the Skidmore College North Woods The data was collected after a rain storm by students The color is related to the answer Good luck and post your guesses below. Warning: Click...
Last Week’s Mystery Map Revealed
The first image from last week’s mystery map is by Jeremy Wood whose website can be found here. All of the lines on this map were drawn by foot with 238 miles of GPS tracks. Notice the text and the compass in this map. Here’s a link to Traverse Me which goes into greater detail...
