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Thursday, December 29, 2016

GIS Education Weekly: Favorite Maps, Most Popular MOOCs, No License

Resources and Articles of Note

Cartonerd Blog: Favorite maps from 2016 - Esri's Kenneth Field weighs in. Also includes some "not so favorites."

Not one of Kenneth Field's Favorites
Esri-UK's Making of the British Landscape story map is now live. h/t @GIS4HE

You may have heard that regulation related to crowdsourcing and federal agencies is awaiting the President's signature. Lea Shanley, PhD explains the upshot of the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act. "Section 402 makes clear that federal agencies may use crowdsourcing and voluntary, collaborative citizen science to advance their missions. This legislation will help agency staff get past the automatic 'no' of higher ups and general counsels who may be initially cautions of innovative new approaches."