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Prepping for my Esri Technical Certification exam

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It wasn’t too long a go that I was submitting my application for the GIS Professional certification.  Now, I on the eve of taking the Esri Technical Certification exam for Desktop Professional.  Although there are Esri Technical Certification Prep Courses, [...]

GISP - 5 years in the making

It has been 5 years in the making.  I had never heard about GISP certification until I started working with GIS over 5 years ago.  My boss told me about it and from that day I set my sights on it.  A few years into the process I wrote GISP Certification – Start Now! to [...]

GISCI Map Contest…..Go Vote!

The GIS Certification institute recently had a map contest. The top 12 maps were decided on by the map contest committee. The top 3 will be decided upon by guest judges. The remaining prize is the People’s Choice Award.
The People’s Choice award will be decided by the map with the most “LIKES” [...]

Taking on Google Fusion

I have heard the term Google Fusion a few times in the past, but I had not explored too deeply into it until this week.  I found that it is really easy to take a spreadsheet of data and create interactive web maps.
As you can see I have incorporated this functionality into my colleges map [...]

List of 2010 Esri UC Plenary Blogs

Check out these blogs from the 2010 Esri International User Conference.  This list will be updated frequently.  If I am missing a blog, let me know. (@GISpathway)

LIVE Blogs
VerySpatial - Frank (@Nojopar) will be updating the blog every 5-10 minute throughout the plenary.
James Fee - James Fee (@cageyjames) works for WeoGeo and will be keeping us [...]

ArcGIS 10 - A Quick Rundown via Twitter #esriserug

I had the opportunity to attend the 2010 ESRI Southeast Regional User Group meeting last week in Charlotte.  Here are my tweets from the “What’s New in ArcGIS 10″ session.
gispathway ArcGIS 10 - Arcgis.com has demos for those of you who feel left out. #esriserug 2 days ago from TinyTwitter

gispathway ArcGIS [...]

ArcGIS 9.3.1 Editing Tips via Twitter #esriserug

Here are some ArcGIS 9.3.1 Editing Tips from a technical session at the 2010 ESRI Southeast Regional User Group Conference.
gispathway ArcGIS 9.3.1 Edit Tips - Instead of fcalculator, select features and open attribute window. Select layer on left and edit field. #esriserug 1 day ago from TinyTwitter
gispathway ArcGIS 9.3.1 [...]

Google Earth for Educators

I had one of my readers send me a link to a blog post on Google Earth for Educators.  There is some great information here for those who may be seeking to use Google Earth in the classroom.  The blog post has compiled a variety of links on various ways to use Google Earth.  The [...]

Life Update and New Job Board

It has been a while since I have gotten the chance to write a post here.  Things have been very busy the last few weeks.  My family and I did get through the Christmas season alright.  At the beginning of January I started another semester at East Carolina University.  I am now classified as a [...]

GeoMentor Site Suitability Project Update

This semester I have had the opportunity to mentor a senior from a local high school.  He is interning in our planning and construction office.  Part of his time here we have been working on a project using GIS.  The task assigned was to find a suitable location for a shelter.  From that simple task [...]