Use of GIS

University of Alabama, Birmingham, U.S.A. (UAB) Associate Professor Akhlaque Haque, Ph.D., is returning to his native country of Bangladesh to begin a four-month adventure to create Bangladesh’s first comprehensive digital maps using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology. Go to http://www.uab.edu/bangladesh to learn about the project. Students can blog and participate in the project.

Specifically, Haque plans [...]

If you’re reading the Geography Matters blog, chances are you know the importance of geography in education and the roll geography plays in understanding today’s interconnected world.

My Wonderful World, a National Geographic-led campaign, is supporting an effort to help us tell our lawmakers that we need geography in our classrooms. They’ve created a letter [...]