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GIS I
Communications

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Errata: So far so good.

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Humor: Funny, geeky, link to the:10 Commandments of ArcInfo (25 actually), from the Corvallis Forestry Research Community web site.

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Additional references:

Here are some sites/references that I mentioned in class that I thought you might find interesting to visit: A day in the life...

This is a cute sequence showing how GIS is used in almost all our routine activites

ESRI History

The ESRI company timeline is worth spending some time with if you'd like

Edward Tufte

This guy is a design guru. He is also an expert in communication of complex phenomenon... and a famous crank about PowerPoint. Worth taking a look at for anyone interested in the display of quantitative information and the whole communication model in Cartography.

Other Spatial Applications

Not all data that get mapped are Geographic in nature. Check out the highly precise and very specific application of mapping technolgy in the medical research field: The Visual Human Project

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Noelwah Netusil, a professor of Economics at Reed, took my class last semester while on sebatical.She provided me a link to this excellent page that she's compiled for her classes:Economic and Statistical Databases

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