new jersey geographer » Teaching http://njgeo.org GIS and planning in New Jersey Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:00:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Projects featured on Rowan’s home page http://njgeo.org/2010/07/05/projects-featured-on-rowans-home-page/ http://njgeo.org/2010/07/05/projects-featured-on-rowans-home-page/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:59:37 +0000 John Reiser http://njgeo.org/?p=301 Continue reading →]]> I’m proud to say that I now have two articles written about my work that have been featured on the Rowan University home page.

Mapping the Guard - view of tank

Most recently, Mapping the Guard (still on the home page) was posted, detailing the great work performed by students for the New Jersey National Guard. I’m very pleased to be heading up this internship program, because I feel that the students leaving the program will be excellent candidates for GIS positions. The students are learning about SDSFIE and other data schema, how to edit data in a multi-user environment, and working with web-based GIS services.

Way back when I was still an adjunct, Mapping the Campus in Layers was written. It’s a good read, because now that I’m at the University full time, I’ve worked to put the pieces together so that we can do much more.

Check back within two weeks about one of the projects we’re working on now. It might not be front-page material, but I’m sure you’ll find it interesting.

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The Nipper Building in Camden

Nipper Building, Camden

I’ve been organizing my digital photography library and posting some of my better pictures to flickr. The “Urban Design” collection highlights pictures that illustrate important urban design principles. I plan on using these photos for the future planning classes at Rowan, but you’re welcome to use them too, as I’ve released them under a CC BY-NC-SA license.

Oh, and many of the photographs have been geotagged, either manually or through GPS records. I’ll be adding older photographs when I get time and new photos as I take them.

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