Month: April 2012

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Thoughts

Google Geography Teacher institute coming to Dublin and London..

September 29 Google Map

After successful events in the US two Google Geo Teachers Institutes are to be held on June 13 and 14  in Dublin, and June 20 and 21, 2012 in London. Both events will be held at the local Google office.

The two-day events are free and designed to help teachers get the most from Google’s geography-related products and technologies. Participants receive hands-on experience and learn best practices and tips for using Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google SketchUp.

If you are interested complete the online application form before April 30, 2012.

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Research

Google Research Awards : Two weeks and counting..

The deadline for our next round of Google Research Awards is 11:59pm PDT on April 15, 2012.  The Research Awards are one-year awards structured as unrestricted gifts to universities to support the work of world-class full-time staff members at top universities around the world.

Member of academic staff can apply for Research Awards by submitting a proposal via the Faculty Research Awards program website.

Although the majority of grants go to applications in Computer Science and Software Engineering, Geospatial is increasingly represented,  last year grants were provided to researchers in Mapping/GIS at,

  • Columbia University
  • Princeton University
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • ETH Zurich
  • UCL / University of Southampton
  • Institut d’Etudes politiques de Paris
  • McGill University

The last call resulted in the funding of 119 awards for a total of $6 million !

If you have any questions please feel free to get in touch, but I suggest looking at this advice first.

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Thoughts

8bit maps..

The retro computing meme continues to gain momentum, just because you are restricted to 8bit computing, there is no reason you should miss out on using Google Maps, so today a new tile set designed for use by the Nintendo Entertainment System has been released.

 

Happy Memories ? I was more of a Sinclair Spectrum man myself…

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