A new GPS-powered device, known as Safe2Walk, will help family members keep track of their dementia-suffering relatives.   The new device, designed by Alzheimer’s Australia WA, is about the size of a mobile phone and can be worn on a lanyard around the neck or clipped to a belt. If the wearer finds […]

  Welcome to this week’s Best of Blogs!   GIS Lounge have a post outlining a project put together by National Geographic that hopes to uncover the lost tomb of Genghis Khan through crowd-sourcing. Basically, they want you to start searching the images for any features of interest. It’s a great example of the power […]

  Today, most government organisations and a growing number of private industries have some type of GIS program in place. They vary from being in their early stages, to the rebuilding or tuning-up phase, to being completed and changed as new technologies and applications emerge.   This workshop is designed to provide guidelines for managing […]

  This week, I received two requests asking for participation in surveys to help out some fellow geo-types. Being the considerate guy I am, I thought I’d pass these requests over to you, my faithful readers.   The first is a survey run by Marcos Nino-Ruiz, a PhD candidate at Melbourne University. He is currently […]