GIS Education Weekly: Teaching and Learning Resources from Canada and New Zealand

Resources for Teaching and Learning

From: Indigenous Place Names in Canada

Canada: Stories from the Land: Indigenous Place Names in Canada - A story map. There's a bay with a name that means "lots of swans, all the time." How can that not make you smile?

Sun Sentinel: He thought he snagged a villa for $9,100. He got a foot-wide strip of land - "Holness said that property appraiser pictures linked to the auction site showed the villa as being the parcel he was bidding on." Via Brent Jones. A story that suggests that the buyer beware when it comes to buying property based on photos rather than detailed survey data.