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Celebrate GIS Day 2017: Share Your Story On GeoNet!

JosephKerski — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:40:07 GMT

We’re excited to celebrate GIS Day 2017 with you here on GeoNet! Join in the worldwide geo-festivities and let us know how you’re celebrating this year by sharing your GIS Day stories and experiences (pictures, videos, comments or links to other content) and answering one of the questions below.

How have you helped others learn about and apply GIS in their work or lives this year?
What personal GIS projects are you most proud of?
What areas GIS would you like to explore more this year? What GIS skills would you like to improve in?
What is one way you’d like to see GIS change the world?

Celebrate with your GeoNet profile picture!

Download one of these images and upload them to your GeoNet profile to show your love for GIS:

Thanks for sharing and we look forward to seeing your contributions and be sure to follow GIS Day group and check out more content in the group!

Re: How are you celebrating GIS Day?

KimberlyKosier — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 19:17:06 GMT

My students at McKeel Academy of Technology located in Lakeland, Florida, will be partnering with representatives from the City of Lakeland, to guide them through MissingMaps.org.

MissingMaps objectives are:

1. To map the most vulnerable places in the developing world, in order that international and local NGOs and individuals can use the maps and data to better respond to crises affecting the areas.

2. To support OpenStreetMap, specifically the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team (HOT),, in developing technologies, skills, workflows, and communities.

Students will be introduced Missing Maps objectives with mini video presentation, then a brief question answer session. We are hoping to join a campaign for regions of Mexico that were devastated by the recent earthquake. Students will be mapping houses and roads.

Re: Celebrate GIS Day 2017: Share Your Experience On GeoNet!

MichelleMathias — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:21:50 GMT

HI kimberlykosier@mckeelschools.com‌ and welcome to GeoNet!. Thank you for your comment/post on how your class will be celebrating GIS Day!

Re: Celebrate GIS Day 2017: Share Your Experience On GeoNet!

LauraMalkin — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 10:00:59 GMT

We are a small local authority based in North Yorkshire, UK.

Although there are only two of us we embrace GIS day as a day to sell our wares and promote ourselves to our colleagues.

Usually by attracting them with cakes and the promise of freebies (gained from badgering our suppliers, including ESRI UK) then bombarding them witht he brilliant things that GIS can do!

Re: Celebrate GIS Day 2017: Share Your Story On GeoNet!

ÁkosHalmai — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 20:38:39 GMT

We’re finished our 5^th GIS day at University of Pécs, Hungary. We had 209 participants & 12 presenters!

Check out our event: GISDay a Pécsi Tudományegyetemen

Re: Celebrate GIS Day 2017: Share Your Story On GeoNet!

MichelleMathias — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:20:18 GMT

halmaia - That is awesome, thanks for sharing!

Re: Celebrate GIS Day 2017: Share Your Story On GeoNet!

deleted-user-h-swY_y9gYKy — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:21:31 GMT

Melbourne Australia here!

We had a morning tea where we distributed prizes for the GIS quiz we sent out and also had a competition for everyone attending to name the 10 missing countries from our map of Africa (tricky since there were 9 distinct countries). Great attendance for all our co-workers (the sweets helped cement that)! Can't wait for 2018!!!

Re: Celebrate GIS Day 2017: Share Your Story On GeoNet!

DamienMansell — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 08:59:30 GMT

Hi Joseph Kerski and GeoNet.
The University of Exeter Geography celebrated both Open Street Map Geography Awareness Week and GIS day by hosting a missing maps mapathon. The Mapathon collaborates with British Red Cross and Humanitarian Open Street Map Team to map an area where humanitarian organisations are trying to meet the needs of vulnerable people. This mapathon was mapping the Kurigram District in Bangladesh in order to effectively implement disaster risk reduction activities, to enhance resilience to future floods. During the 2 hour mapathon which included wine and pizza, The University of Exeter volunteers managed to make 2,272 map edits which included 2,035 buildings and 1,134 km of roads. The humanitarian aid projects continues at Exeter and we encourage you to host a mapathon for yourselves! see here http://www.missingmaps.org/host/ or get in touch on twitter @damienmansell

Re: Celebrate GIS Day 2017: Share Your Story On GeoNet!

DunwoodyGIS — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:28:33 GMT

Greetings!

I spent the day at Clarkston High School in DeKalb County, Georgia, USA. I spoke with four classes about GIS and GIS as a career. No student was familiar with GIS and at least one from each class found it interesting and said they want to purse it in college. For one Environmental Science class we spent time exploring the Atlas for a Changing Planet story map (perfect and very informative map for enviro science class!) and we played around in ArcGIS Online briefly. The students just got these sweet Chromebooks this semester so we were able to do a quick web map lab with out having to go to a computer lab!

Re: Celebrate GIS Day 2017: Share Your Story On GeoNet!

GeorgeHouck — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:30:53 GMT

Re: Celebrate GIS Day 2017: Share Your Story On GeoNet!

JamesAnnan-Aggrey — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 16:56:57 GMT

Hi Joseph Kerski's Blog‌,

The staff of AccuGeospatial, an Esri business partner in ghana joined students of Liberty American School in Accra to celebrate gis day 2017 as part of the Partners Spatial Thinking ( SpaT ) Campaign. A total of 31 students and 6 facilitators were involved. Students engaged in activities such as telling stories with maps. The best story telling maps that won prices were from William - http://arcg.is/2ALO4cR and Chisom - http://arcg.is/2AK3Dlc

Students also created web maps and apps from mapping their campus using esri apps such as arcgis collector* on their smart devices.

gisday‌ souvenirs such as wrist bands and book markers were distributed

Special thanks to the Director of Students - Jason and Principal - Mrs Larweh-Martey for the opportunity to engage with their students.

Re: Celebrate GIS Day 2017: Share Your Story On GeoNet!

DanaNolan — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:35:40 GMT

Here in the middle of the Mojave Desert, in the middle of a shopping center, we, the local Army Sustainable Range Program, gave out MapMan comic books, desert-animal coloring pages, posters, burro-shaped cookies, ESRI Mapbooks, and info for teachers and homeschoolers. The community, kids and adults, is fascinated with our newer burro population, especially a three-legged critter named Tripod. We made a Pin the Donkey on the Map map; results will be posted on our local (closed) Facebook page. We have a lot of leftover career and other stuff that we can give out during the year, or next year on GIS Day.

How have I helped others learn about GIS this year: (Dana's answer) We made a Soldier's Guide to Scale map/poster, which is already helping us train people how to think about mapping. Our goal is to get it into a lot of offices, especially mapping and planning groups.

What personal GIS projects are you most proud of: (Mark's answer) Mapping sea plastic with Algalita; concidentally, Dana also helped map shore plastic at the CA Water Board.

Re: Celebrate GIS Day 2017: Share Your Story On GeoNet!

JosephKerski — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:08:14 GMT

I love it, Damien! Kudos to you and Ex marks the spot is VERY clever and spatial!

--Joseph Kerski

Re: Celebrate GIS Day 2017: Share Your Story On GeoNet!

JosephKerski — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:09:02 GMT

This is GREAT and so SPATIAL! Thanks for being GIS champions!

--Joseph Kerski

Re: Celebrate GIS Day 2017: Share Your Story On GeoNet!

JosephKerski — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:09:25 GMT

This is GREAT and so SPATIAL! Thanks for being GIS champions!

--Joseph Kerski

Re: Celebrate GIS Day 2017: Share Your Story On GeoNet!

JosephKerski — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:10:06 GMT

I love the huge globe too! You are all champions of spatial tech!

--Joseph Kerski

Re: Celebrate GIS Day 2017: Share Your Story On GeoNet!

JosephKerski — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:10:42 GMT

This is fantastically geo-spatial! Thanks for sharing and for being committed to GIS in education!

--Joseph Kerski

Re: Celebrate GIS Day 2017: Share Your Story On GeoNet!

JosephKerski — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:11:15 GMT

This is great - but that cake is making me hungry : - ) Thanks for sharing!

--Joseph Kerski

Re: Celebrate GIS Day 2017: Share Your Story On GeoNet!

JosephKerski — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:12:01 GMT

Small is good too - you are making a positive impact - thanks for sharing!

I have been to Hebden and taught GIS at the Univ of Leeds! Wonderful places.

--Joseph Kerski

Re: Celebrate GIS Day 2017: Share Your Story On GeoNet!

JosephKerski — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:12:54 GMT

Thanks Kimberly! I have worked with Patricia Solis and OSM.

I was just at Univ of Central FL last week for GIS Day not far from you.

Great part of the world you are in!

--Joseph Kerski