Slow Ways Map Crowdfunder

I've blogged about the Slow Ways project a number of times as it has developed.

It was featured on Countryfile on Sunday.

There is an option to purchase a large map of the UK with Slow Ways routes marked on which can be used to mark routes walked, or plan larger walks. There are 2 maps: a North Sheet and a South Sheet.

I've ordered a pair for me and a pair for the classroom.

Each map costs £5 and you can support the project on the link below.

A giant map of trails connecting all of Great Britain's towns and cities as well as every national park!?

Time to get:

🌈 dreaming
🐙 planning
✍️ drawing
🐌 hiking
💚 sharing

Back our crowdfunding campaign for £10 or more to get both maps! https://t.co/SRLQA9qmcV 👍 pic.twitter.com/xhzQ45zoc4

— Slow Ways (@SlowWaysUK) May 30, 2022

LIDAR

The new Bruce Hornsby album has a song called LIDAR for all the geographers out there.

Lyrics are all about 3D mapping and open data sets - a little niche :)

Scanning forest canopies, evidence to be found
They're free online in the public domain
Mapping truth, learning skills, through the laze

Big fan of Bruce since 1986, and seen him live three times in that time on his rare trips to the UK...

GI Pedagogy Training Course in Madrid - 4th-6th of July

Last week I had a meeting of the GI Pedagogy group of partners - which is funded by an ERASMUS+ grant, given by the British Council.

We have been working on resources and an online teacher training course. 

We now have an opportunity for you to join us for a face to face event in Madrid.

Free training course for secondary teachers - introducing an Innovative Pedagogical Model for Teaching using GIS, July 4-6 2022, Madrid, @GIPedagogy project, some travel grants available - find out more and register at https://t.co/8uy2lRNfpA

— karl_donert (@karldonert) May 19, 2022

The Registration form is here, and you can also request a first-come first-served grant of €200 to help with the cost of attending if you are outside of Spain.

It would be great to have you there. Happy to answer any further questions as well. 

RGS-IBG Podcast on ArcGIS Online

Check out the podcast with Jason Sawle: Global Schools Manager with ESRI.

The @RGS_IBGschools team pleased to feature @GIS4Schools - of @esriuk and @Esri & champion of importance & value of #GIS in education & #geography - in our latest podcast. Listen below ⤵️https://t.co/62j1zIo5I5

— Steve Brace (@SteveBraceGeog) May 11, 2022