Maps are one of our oldest forms of visualizing data about the world. One might say we'd be "lost" without them.
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From the early web-based Mapquest versions and later when Google Maps came onto the scene followed closely by Google Earth, online mapping and the use of maps by the general public has exploded. Maps are now a mainstay for mobile computing and other endeavors online line that have a spatial component. The capability enabled by GPS (Global Positioning System) allows our devices to know where we are in the world, what/who is nearby, and what information is available about places.
We see many ways people use maps for personal use and are interested in knowing more about that and your ideas on how mapping tools might also be used for learning.
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For media folks like me, the cool, interactive graphical program that is Google Earth has always had a Holy Grail-inserting moving media so it plays right over the terrain, as still images will do. We've gotten a lot closer with two new features, one with mixed blessings. First, Google Earth now has a YouTube layer.
ArcExplorer Java Edition for Education (AEJEE) is a downloadable, lightweight GIS tool for exploring geographic data. AEJEE can save and open projects, so work can be shared between users, or between school and home. AEJEE can classify and symbolize shapefiles, integrate a wide array of image data, project on-the-fly shapefiles stored in decimal degree, and use data distributed over the Internet from ArcIMS services from the Geography Network, or other hosted ArcIMS sites.