KSU Geography Club

Happy GIS Day!!!!!!!! Come to Burnt Hickory Brewery tonight at 6:30pm for the Annual KSU GIS Day Celebration!

This is great opportunity to earn some serious $$$. Students should definitely check it out!

An interesting article about how breakthroughs in the field of mapmaking are typically accompanied by some sort of conflict, controversy or attempt to repudiate one’s scientific forbears.

This is the award winning web map made by Andrew Bell! Great job!

Congratulations Jake Gresham and Andrew Bell!!!! Great job guys!

http://www.citylab.com//browse-more-than-1000-nati/486002/

An interesting map looking at walk times between transit stops. What happens when your station is closed? Could mean you have a 10-20 minute walk.

If you grew up thinking Greenland was bigger than India, or that Alaska was the size of Brazil, you probably learned geography from a Mercator map. Originally created in the 16th century for sailors, the immensely popular Mercator map eventually made its way into 20th century elementary schools, where, for decades, it left all of us confused about the relative sizes of countries around the world. Fortunately, if you’re still befuddled by the sizes of our planet’s land masses, there’s now a simple way to rectify that. WIRED reports that a new web app called The True Size Of, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice, makes it easy to see how big different countries are and lets you compare them to their distorted representation on the Mercator projection. - See more at: http://m.mentalfloss.com/article.php

This is a great article for those of you who are new the GIS field or have just graduated. Just knowing how to create a pretty map is quickly becoming a widely accessible skill set in the business world. Hell, even non-GIS folks can place locations on a Google Map these days. If you want to move up quickly into those positions that pay well, are engaging, and position to be a leader, then learn a programming language. Python, SQL, Javascript.... Apply it to as much as you can! You will find that instead of you searching for jobs, they will begin to come your way.

I know that your reading list is longer than mine, but free books are always welcome. Check out the link below each day for a different selection. https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning

Congratulations Dr. Slinger-Friedman!!!

Sometimes it's what you don't put in your map that says a lot.