GIS Education Weekly: A Study on Distorted Representations of Country Size on Maps

Participate

UGent: How accurate is your mental map? - Lieselot Lapon invites those interested to complete a "fun study to challenge your mental model of world maps. Guess the correct size of countries and support PHD research." Via @kennethfield.

Resources

Texas State: Research in Geographic Education - Volume 19, Issue 2 features papers by the 2016 recipients of transformative research grants from the National Center for Research in Geography Education.

GIS Education Weekly: Does your Campus Map Reveal Accessible Parking, Sustainability Projects and Napping Locations?

Articles and Resources

MathBabe: Guest Post: In Praise of Globes - A guest post by Ernie Davis, Professor of Computer Science at NYU, explores the reasons for, and the math behind, the Mercator and Gall-Peters projects. It was prompted by last week's news about the latter replacing the former in some Boston classrooms.

The Guardian: Yes, Facebook, I am safe – no thanks for asking - Facebook's Safety Check has some geographical issues.

GIS Education Weekly: Campus Maps, Data Storytelling

Articles of Interest

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Fast Company: Ever Want Image Search For Google Earth? This AI-Driven Tool Does That - Descartes offers a search engine that will find other instances of a feature in a satellite image in other satellite images. The tech the company is commercializing was developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Interesting, but I confess feeling a bit of "solution in search of a problem" situation. I hope I'm wrong.

Tapestry Conference: 10 Data Storytelling Videos from Tapestry 2017  - Among the ten data storytelling presentations is one titled "Geospatial and Temporal Visualization of a New Vaccine Introduction."