Timothy Hales, Union County Public Schools Project Manager, North Carolina
Co-founder and a moderator of The GIS Forum

One specific case where social media buzzed about the conference was during the plenary session. The ESRI’s Education User Conference Twitter account (@esrieduc) encouraged all of their followers to be sure they knew about the education section with this tweet: “See what a Maryland school is doing with GIS during the UC Plenary (2-3:30 window)…GIS shaping students futures.”

David Moore, President & Founder
Navagis, LLC

We’ve had a lot of really exciting events happen at Navagis in the past few months. Here are the highlights:

Eddie Hanebuth, President, Digital Quest, Inc.

Ohio State Agricultural Technical Institute (ATI) launched a course that introduces students to Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The use of the AGIS in Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources book written by my company, Digital Quest, Inc. has helped provide a useful guide for practical application.

Dr. Nels Hansen of the Ohio State ATI saw a need for instruction in GIS when he arrived at the institute in the fall of 2005. By the spring of 2008 the Engineering Technology course Introduction to Geographic Information Systems was put into place. Students in the Crop Management and Services program and the Environmental Resource Management program go through this course as a way to learn about spatial relationships in urban and rural landscapes using global positioning and GIS.

Spectral Python or “SPy” for short is a labor of love by Thomas Boggs. It is also one of the .001% of Python projects that make this GeospatialPython.com and not PythonWebMapping.com or SomePythonScriptsforGISDataConversion.com.