Mapping Local History With GIS in Saratoga County, NY
Imagine what we could individually learn about local cities by using maps to understand their histories. Connecting history and place through GIS technology has the possibility to activate awareness and independent research initiatives in local communities. On Thursday, February 21st, a Historians Meeting took place in Skidmore’s new GIS Center, featuring Ron Feulner, the town...
Indoor WiFi Mapping
With the advent of the iPhoneTracker, mobile device location has been brought back to the forefront of our minds. A Skidmore Faculty member compiled several versions of iPhoneTracker from GitHub, and one of these pulled the locations determined from WiFi positioning from the consolidated.db database. This meant that locations determined from WiFi proximity/triangulation were displayed...
