Comments on: A super-powered map http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/31/a-super-powered-map/ A world for online journalists. Come all ye scribes, artists and innovators of the press. Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:54:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Danny Sanchez http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/31/a-super-powered-map/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Danny Sanchez Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:45:32 +0000 http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/31/a-super-powered-map/#comment-66 Wow, that's great that you were able to learn that in high school. It is an amazing journalism tool. I've been wanting to learn arcGIS for some time now actually. There are some great data sets to tinker around with at the Florida Geographic Data Library: <a href="http://www.fgdl.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.fgdl.org/</a> Wow, that’s great that you were able to learn that in high school. It is an amazing journalism tool. I’ve been wanting to learn arcGIS for some time now actually.

There are some great data sets to tinker around with at the Florida Geographic Data Library: http://www.fgdl.org/

]]> By: Mallory Colliflower http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/31/a-super-powered-map/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Mallory Colliflower Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:37:41 +0000 http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/31/a-super-powered-map/#comment-65 Too add: We were taught <a href="http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/index.html" rel="nofollow">arcGIS</a> from ESRI which was surprisingly easy to use. They offer a <a>60-day trial</a> that might be fun to play around with. Too add: We were taught arcGIS from ESRI which was surprisingly easy to use. They offer a 60-day trial that might be fun to play around with.

]]> By: Mallory Colliflower http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/31/a-super-powered-map/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Mallory Colliflower Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:33:39 +0000 http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/31/a-super-powered-map/#comment-64 I was lucky enough to take eight credits of dual enrollment GIS courses at my high school in south Florida, offered through Broward Community College. It's such a versatile technology, the "multimedia journalism" of cartography. Great tool. I was lucky enough to take eight credits of dual enrollment GIS courses at my high school in south Florida, offered through Broward Community College. It’s such a versatile technology, the “multimedia journalism” of cartography. Great tool.

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