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Give your students the tools to construct their own visualization of geographic data with My World Geographic Information System (GIS) software. Based on a decade of research, My World provides the functionality of a professional GIS with the ease-of-use required by students and the ease-of-administration critical to schools.
Developed by the GEODE Initiative at Northwestern University (formerly WorldWatcher Project), My World allows students to query, plot and analyze geographic data such as climate, geology, biodiversity, population and more. Supports both quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Eight different geographic projections of data
• Table and map views of data
• Convenient distance-measurement tools
• Customizable map displays
• Supports import of data from public databases, tab and comma-delimited files and manual entry
• Data Library Included:
Includes a data library with population data for the United States and the world, global temperature and elevation data, and earthquake and volcano data. Plus, import data from hundreds of public sources and websites using GIS-standard shapefile format.
Designed for middle school through college inquiry-based learning.
Technical Requirements:
Operating System: Win 95/98/NT/2000, Mac OS X
Processor: Win, Pentium II or better; Mac, G3 or better
RAM: 256 MB RAM or more recommended (128 MB RAM required)
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