He was separated from his family when he was just a little boy – lost in a world that found him a new home in a different country. Many years later, as a grown man, he used Google Earth to retrace his steps – using basic math and his childhood memories of places he knew — and he found his way back to his village. Read about his incredible story in this BBC news article.
Chalk up one for ‘reasons to be proud to work in the geospatial industry’.
by Michele ‘Geo’Mattix
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I like license plates. Always have. With no encouragement from anyone around me, I naturally gravitated to taking mental inventories of license plates when trapped in the back seat of our family car on those long drives to visit relatives. My home state, Indiana, had numeric codes representing the county where the vehicle is registered. There just weren’t many out-of-state plates in my home town but what we lacked in a variety of states, I made up for it by focusing on counties. All that changed when I went to Bloomington to attend Indiana University where the out-of-state students brought a happy variety of license plates for my viewing pleasure.
Here’s an article I wrote on the ArcPad Team blog about the various ArcPad workflows: click here
My husband had planned a hike in Joshua Tree National Park for a small group of friends. I love hiking but also saw here a perfect opportunity to start up a new project to collect recreational sites with ArcPad. This is something I’d been wanting to do for a few weeks but never got around to it. Now, with only 20 minutes before heading out for the park, I had to start a project from scratch. Here’s how I started from nothing and ended up with a field-ready project in 15 minutes.
Today I have some big news to share with you.
I have accepted a position with Esri as the ArcPad Product Manager. This is a wonderful opportunity for me and it’s one that I am very excited about! As many of you know, I worked at Esri several years ago as an instructor. It was a great experience for me then as I boosted my technical GIS skills and found my voice as a trainer and communicator. I left Esri as my personal and career path brought me back to Arizona where, for the past five years, I worked as an instructor and consultant for GPS, ArcPad, and field data collection. Now it is time for a new challenge – to take what I’ve learned and the experience I’ve gained back to Esri and be the connecting link between those who use ArcPad and those at Esri who develop and market it.