Everything is spatially important part 1: Honoring the Fallen Ones

In order to tribute the importance of the location, I am starting the a section on the topics that are spatially important. This section focuses on certain topics that are spatially important. This morning, Sean Askay, an engineer at Google, released a kmz file (a layer specially designed for Google) that has a great visualization of the casualties during war. The layer was released to honor the fallen ones on the eve of memorial day. The layer contains...

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Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS) to offer pre-conference Workshops at NO COST

The 12th annual society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS) is offering free pre-workshops on different aspects of the Conservation GIS courses. One of the courses that I particularly found interesting is that the workshop no 1 "Working with ModelBuilder and Python for Productivity". It is interesting because the non-programmer conservationist with GIS background can will get benefits from it. If you are new to GIS and have rarely used model builder, I bet it will take you to the next level in the use of model builder. I myself, am not a python programmer,...

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Great Lake Protection Plan.....Will this plan effectively address the pollution at Lake Ontario?

Great Lake Protection Plan is recently released. There is a five-point action plan that includes "tripartite table" of municipal,federal and provincial coordination for the enhancement of natural areas on the lake fronts. However, based different media news ,"investment in Great Lakes protection and restoration can have a 2:1 rate of return on investment". Definitely, it is a slow process.But, the "tripartite" should not ignore that how much change...

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