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Abstract
Building Community GIS Educational ApplicationsTrack: K-12 Education and Library Science
Author(s): Steve Whitney, Robert MacAuthur, Matt Rahr
The City of Tucson, Pima County, and the University of Arizona are building GIS applications that extend beyond the typical domain of IT experts. These applications, using real-world data, are aimed at K-12 and public education venues. With them, users will learn GIS while they track neighborhood crime, property value fluctuations, desirable places to live, and so on. They will also make use of an extensive set of online orthophotos and multispectral data. The goal is to tease these nontechnical users into learning a complex technology while they do useful things.
Steve Whitney
Pima County Government
201 N. Stone
Tucson, AZ 85701
USA
Phone: 520 740 6670
E-mail: swhitney@dot.co.pima.az.us