Prototype Portal Welcome to KidsGIS.org
Mission: Provide an intuitive environmental geospatial portals for kids of all ages, based on open source software, open exchange formats and industry standard data models - and core support centers to assure sustainability and continual growth. GIS Professionals from around the state of Oregon have come together to provide a productive and effective learning environment for kids. Based on industry tools and industry standard geospatial data structures, KIDs GIS is being carefully designed to help develop interests in math, physics, science and graphic arts. We hope to provide a series of intuitive applications to improve core educational requirements and promote communication, collaboration and healthy team building skills in kids worldwide. Taking special measures to embrace open source, public domain software and open, nonproprietary data structures, the Kids GIS program promotes a collaborative development environment and produces accessible programs. Important measures of the program’s success include an intuitive and fun interface, ability to load with any operating system (PC, Mac, Sun, Open Source , etc.) and prolific use. The objective is to provide a stable programs and core support centers to educate and enable future generations. If successful, core components will support a broad array of fundamental environmental needs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geospatialshapeimage_4_link_0
Visit OSGeo Wiki for technical information. Open Data Models: ArcHydro NHD OGC PNW Hydro Open Source Software: MGOS MySQL ProgreSQL PostGIShttp://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Kids_GIS_Portalhttp://www.crwr.utexas.edu/giswr/hydro/ArcHOSS/index.cfmhttp://nhd.usgs.gov/http://www.opengeospatial.org/http://hydro.reo.gov/https://mapguide.osgeo.org/http://www.mysql.org/http://www.postgresql.org/http://postgis.refractions.net/shapeimage_5_link_0shapeimage_5_link_1shapeimage_5_link_2shapeimage_5_link_3shapeimage_5_link_4shapeimage_5_link_5shapeimage_5_link_6shapeimage_5_link_7shapeimage_5_link_8
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