This is my first post to this blog, so I figured I would post some content from the Skidmore College GIS Center blog to test it out. Here is our most recent "Mystery Map." All last year we posted maps of different kinds of spatial distributions over the landscape to get people thinking spatially. (Check some old mystery maps out here). This is the first map for the 2011/12 academic year. Can you guess what it is? Leave a guess in the comments on this blog or on the GIS Center blog "on location" here. Typically to get the word out on campus about the mystery map I would tweet it on the @geoparadigm Twitter account, post it on the GIS Center facebook page, and even get it in th student announcements. Some mystery maps also have a reward for the first student on campus who guesses correctly in the blog comments. The prize this time is a NEARC t-shirt. I can't take full responsibility for the Mystery Map idea...I have to give some credit to Jon Caris at Smith College who spoke a little about Smith's program and Mystery Maps in this NITLE: Spatial Perspectives podcast.
So, check out the podcast and try to guess the mystery map! Good luck.
Once you have pondered this unique spatial distribution, check on the solution to the mystery map here.
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