A National History Day presentation on Geographic Information Systems:
Theme: Innovation in History – 2009 – 2010
Information on how the technology of GIS has impacted society.
NHD Texas State Level.
A special thanks to ALL interviewees:
Paul Amos – Lab Director at University of Pennsylvania
Learon Dalby – GIS Program Manager – State of Arkansas
Joe Francica – Editor-in-Chief of Directions Magazine
Patricia Longas – GIS Programmer – EPCO
Logan Parker – GIS Programmer – EPCO
Tom Shupe – GIS Programmer – EPCO
Dion Duran – GIS Programmer – EPCO
Chris Johnson – Lead Investigator for Virtual Alabama
Michael Jones – CTO and Lead Developer of Google Earth
Carl Reed – CTO Open Geospatial Consortium
Duration : 0:9:49
An overview of Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and how they can be used to achieve one of the goals of Gov 2.0: greater citizen participation in their government. Based on a report by Sukumar Ganapati, of Florida International University , prepared for the IBM Center for the Business of Government.
An overview of Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and how they can be used to achieve one of the goals of Gov 2.0: greater citizen participation in their government. Based on a report by Sukumar Ganapati, of Florida International University , prepared for the IBM Center for the Business of Government.
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Explore how geographic information system (GIS) technology fosters critical thinking skills and improves decision making in your institution. The ESRI Education User Conference (EdUC) is an ideal forum to learn, collaborate, and get updated on all things GIS for both inside the classroom and policymaking. Learn more at: http://www.esri.com/educ
This demonstrates the dependence of geospatial analysis on BOTH geographic information systems software AND statistics. This demonstration combines the functionality of Maptitude from Caliper Corp and the open source R-Statistics. 
Alvin Cullum York was born in the small town of Pall Mall (PAL MELL), Tennessee in 1887. Because of his religious convictions, he wanted nothing to do with the killing during World War I. But he had a change of heart and became the most highly decorated soldier from that war. Tom Nolan from the MTSU department of Geosciences has combined an interest in history with his knowledge of geographic information systems or GIS to pinpoint the location of Alvin York’s heroic actions.
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