Ash Cloud apocalypse

Raphael Heath is planning his 2nd World GIS activity.

The technology of ArcGIS Online has moved on in the last year, and there is now the appearance of the GeoForm (of which more to come later)
This year, the focus is on an Ash Cloud apocalypse.

Between 16 to 20 November get your Geography students involved with a local disaster risk mapping activity. Are you ready for the Ash Cloud Apocalypse. Could you survive? Know your risks!

This is the launch video... more to come on this later in the year....

Using Google Earth to snoop on people

I was interested in an article that came through via Karl Donert
It describes how Google Earth is being used to check on people's general activity.

It can show cars parked in drives, home improvements, the appearance of outhouses etc. and then be used alongside other data from social networks e.g. postings from foreign holidays etc.
How much does this give away about your life?

OS maps as a basemap layer in ArcGIS Online

For those of you who are interested in developing your use of ArcGIS Online, a few new items of interest.
Some new base maps have now been added to ArcGIS Online
You'll need an institutional subscription to see them...

You can see that alongside Watercolour Stamen maps are also ORDNANCE SURVEY maps.

A further development that shows the power of this tool.

Also this week I have been exploring with GeoForms.
These are forms which can be created to connect with a particular feature service layer of the ArcGIS Online platform.... Fill in the form on your device of choice and the data is added to the map in the relevant place...

This is going to use a few apps.