Previous issues: December 2010 - January 2011 - February 2011 - March 2011 - April 2011 - May 2011

News stories
Digital Europe Citizens, businesses and policymakers must be fully on board if Europe is to realise its digital ambitions. The digital agenda for Europe is the EU strategy to deliver benefits of a digital society and economy for all or, more simply, to make "every European digital". Adopted by the European Commission in May 2010, the digital agenda outlined 100 actions for a smarter, more sustainable and inclusive Europe. One year on, so what does it really involve? http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c9a6ae6f#/c9a6ae6f/5

Europe's Digital Agenda Scoreboard: 65% of EU population regularly uses the internet http://bit.ly/lscS9M

Digital Agenda: Open data access plans for Europe
The European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes, , responsible for the EU digital Agenda 2020 programme, announced support in 2012 for the opening of European, national and regional data for public uses in her State of the Digital Union address at the Digital Assembly, Brussels, 16 June 2011 http://bit.ly/kcnuNu

NASA prepares satellite for a new era of Earth observation
To extend and build upon this legacy, NASA plans to launch a new member of its Earth-observing fleet this fall called the NPOESS Preparatory Project. NPP, a minibus-sized satellite, will monitor a broad range of land, ocean, and atmospheric phenomena. http://bit.ly/lo5pnT

• Council of Europe: European Leaders Call for Ban of Cellular Phones and WiFi in Schools. http://ow.ly/5k074
• Digital Agenda : awards for creative reuse of open data apps. http://bit.ly/jwkFZg
• EU in race to digitise economy - http://euobs.com/893/31921
  
• Police enlist help of public by pinpointing where crimes take
  place http://bit.ly/ga8oEv
• More features to the mountains in Google Earth http://dlvr.it/N6vxf
• European Commission: Nellie Kroes - by 2013 one EU data portal for all regional national and European data
  

Maps and mapping

• What Ever Happened To…?: So many mapping websites, new location-based apps and other initiatives http://bit.ly/m0kdUd
• New Map Reveals Giant Fjords beneath East Antarctic Ice Sheet: http://bit.ly/mUgx6P
• Google's Map "Accuracy" issues http://wp.me/p1mINo-97
• Students map local fires. GIS engages real world problems, analyses,
  participation http://bit.ly/dWwYlc
• World Bank launches Mapping for Results project http://maps.worldbank.org/
• Open Green Map maps green living, nature and cultural resources http://www.opengreenmap.org/
• Mapping the World With Facebook Connections: http://goo.gl/fb/iUDRY
  
• Swimming in Europe: every beach, lake and bathing spot ranked and mapped http://gu.com/p/3vxkf/tf
  
• Severe Weather: local impact map http://ow.ly/53DFZ
  
• New map viewer for the Environmental Atlas of North America. http://www.cec.org/atlas/
  
• Placebook: Facebook Nation http://bit.ly/kSHutI
  
• Map The World's Hotspots of Climate-Induced Food Insecurity? http://bit.ly/kMyn7x
  
• 3-D mapping reveals hidden Mayan city http://on.natgeo.com/jtrrHA
  
• US Weather map: realtime data http://1.usa.gov/ilanFe
  
• Sourcemap is an open source map so that everyone can access the information
  needed to make sustainable choices and share them online http://www.sourcemap.org/
  
• Mapping Globalisation Project http://qed.princeton.edu/index.php/MG

Images and geo-media

• Living in a Read/Write World from Bing Adding media to maps and sharing it with others to create a personal experience - a geo-spatial LinkedIn? http://bit.ly/eELcM9
• Google Earth, Columbia University Reveal World's Most Comprehensive Seafloor visualisation (Video) http://bit.ly/kOEkTi
• Visualizing Historical Data, And The Rise Of "Digital Humanities" http://ow.ly/5gnR3
• MondoWindow - a platform for online, in-flight, location-based content and
  entertainment: http://www.mondowindow.com/
• New video: Drawing with GPS, Mapping with GIS: http://bit.ly/kE6ETM
• Egyptian Pyramids Found Using Satellite Imagery http://is.gd/vraaIT
  
• Urban Earth Provides a Compelling View of Cities http://bit.ly/kxwZGl
  
• World Map Of Social Networks: SocialTimes.com: http://bit.ly/jXNVfi
  
• Community mapping as a peacekeeping tool http://bit.ly/ktkU6r
  
• Using night light imagery to measure economic growth http://bit.ly/lNVD9l
  
• The scar of destruction left by Massachusetts tornado http://bit.ly/jDh7wV
  
• Tornadoes infographic: Comparing six decades of devastation across the US http://bit.ly/lV7vnM
  
• USA tornadoes, floods, weather in ArcGIS Online: http://bit.ly/j9xmyC
  
• Landsat 5 Imagery Helps Fight Largest Fires in Arizona History http://bit.ly/lpqE28
  

Data, tools and technology

Technology, tools and portals

• Easy mapping web tools to engage pupils http://ow.ly/5b0GK
• The Global Heritage Network | Google Earth Blog http://t.co/rWx1dQF
  
• Irresponsible mapping http://t.co/LZNLZ2h
  
• Dynamic location tracking facilitates crowd management eg at airports:
  http://nyti.ms/hWi6M9
• Iceland is crowdsourcing its new constitution. http://su.pr/4kd1Zs
• iGPSGIS a free iPhone app to record GIS Info http://tinyurl.com/3jg7lt2 At the app store http://bit.ly/m74ePK
  
• ArcGIS Desktop: free download for visualising and sharing maps and data http://ow.ly/1u4Xeo
  
• Sign up for Quikmaps: http://www.quikmaps.com
  
• Create Free Maps: Upload an Excel spreadsheet http://goo.gl/fb/7Mrkd
  
• Project Photofly 2.0: Turn digital photos into 3D models: http://bit.ly/mA4UYO
  
• iCMTGIS Version 1.2.6 for the iPAD facilitates mobile GIS mapping tasks, a free app from the App Store: http://bit.ly/i5B3fg
  
• IPhone Tracker Shows Your IPhone Knows Where You've Been http://bit.ly/hKj6Hu
  
• Beyond Maps - geoAugmented Reality for Navigation with Wikitude Drive on a Smartphone http://t.co/hEJNfPS
  
  

Data sets

• Tracking Ash Plumes: Data pulled from several satellites has been put to use http://goo.gl/fb/Dc1dx
• Data without borders initiative http://ow.ly/1u4ZP4
  
• The GIST Data Repository has moved to https://gistdata.itos.uga.edu
  
• UK National population statistics now online http://bit.ly/mwfwdG
  
• International country database http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/
  
• Landsat has never been this easy to use! http://ow.ly/56Twz
  
• Homelessness in England is up - see the data (http://bit.ly/kxdJtM) and explore the interactive map http://bit.ly/jNONx9
  
• Mapping field data in ArcGIS Online. Watch this video: http://t.co/fGuagTT
  
• 100 years of UK rainfall: when was it this dry before? http://gu.com/p/2py3h/tf
  
  

Education, Learning and Teaching

• Geotechnologies for educators - see opportunities and resources from GISetc: http://www.gisetc.com
• National Geographic What is Geo-Literacy? resource page http://ht.ly/5p7j9
  
• Texting, video games, the Internet: how they wire the learning brain. http://mindshift.kqed.org/?p=8645
  
• 3 new tornado-based GIS lessons on http://bit.ly/d0S1v
  
• Use ArcGIS Online to examine real-time floods in USA: http://bit.ly/cDW2ql
  
• Geocaching.com Do It Yourself Create a Geotrail http://ow.ly/1cYHVF
  
• Siting wind farms with GIS: Lesson and data set on ArcLessons: http://edcommunity.esri.com/arclessons/lesson.cfm?id=447
  
• Supermarket access map - study the distribution and access using ArcGIS Online: http://bit.ly/azCLni
  
• ArcLessons-mapping demographics of your community & region: http://edcommunity.esri.com/arclessons/lesson.cfm?id=577
  
• Describing a Community or Region with Photographs and ArcGIS Explorer http://ow.ly/1dikNZ
  
• How social media and game mechanics can motivate students. http://ow.ly/56UYp
  
• 5 ways Twitter has changed education http://ow.ly/4iTQP
  
• Texting, video games, the Internet: how they wire the learning brain. http://mindshift.kqed.org/?p=8645
  
• 3 trends in the future of curriculum: digital delivery, learner-centric, 21st Century skills. http://ow.ly/3Quth
  
• Climate change and other ‘issues’ should be excluded from curriculum saysUK government adviser http://bit.ly/jqgjDs
• Analyzing Tuscaloosa tornado with ArcGIS Online lesson - see "new ArcLessons" section http://edcommunity.esri.com
  

Publications (free to download)

• July 2011 issue of International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (IJ-SoTL) is available free and online at http://bit.ly/mJC9bI
  
• Web GIS for Sea Ice Information and an Ice Service Archive: Transactions in GIS, April 2011 http://bit.ly/mwBcZX
  
• Enhancing Citizen Science Participation in Geoweb Projects http://bit.ly/lgZxOC
  
• What is Geo-Cool? Geotechnologies! http://bit.ly/dygYkP
  
• 'Learning to Think Spatially' - now a free pdf download from http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11019.html
  
• National Academies Press books as of 2 June as PDFs are free to download! http://www.nap.edu
  
• Citizen planners & spatial tools ebook http://bit.ly/mhZNBf
  
• Geospatial Analysis- the book: http://www.spatialanalysisonline.com/output/
  
• The Influence of Role Models on Immigrant Self-Employment: A Spatial Analysis for Switzerland: http://bit.ly/ernWcO