Nicholas Chrisman
Professor (retired)
This site provides access to a snapshot of archaic websites, a rather archaeological exercise. Many links are dead, and not fixed. Apologies to all.
Workshops on Data Quality:
Service to the Community
Previous employment:
Research Interests
Instruction (resources from the past)
At RMIT 2013-2014 Geospatial Sciences
(Courses delivered behind a firewall- Blackboard...)
Map Projections GEOM 2117
GIS Analysis/ SIS 2 GEOM 1044
At Laval 2005-2012
Seminar for graduate students: SCG
60430
en francais, bien sur!
Courses offered 1987-2004 at University of Washington:
Winter 2003: Geography 465 - Analytical Cartography
Fall 2003: Geography 460 - GIS
Analysis
Winter 2004: Geography 458 -
Map Sources and Errors
More about courses offered at
University of Washington.
Current Projects
- Operations as Editor of Cartography and Geographic Information Science (a journal published by Taylor and Francis)
- writing a book on Society and Technology with GIS as
the example (proposal (2002) from an earlier unpublished version, to be amended, particularly with reference to the other book written in between this proposal and now.)
Past projects
Computing on the ellipsoid, not flat projections. Result published in IJGIS.
Published a book on the history of the Laboratory for Computer
Graphics and Spatial Analysis (for ESRI Press) Charting
the Unknown
Geography of Geographic Information
Social Construction of
GIS:
- Social Construction of GIS: Software, Data, Results (funded
by National Science Foundation 1998-2001)
- Software: Reversibility of progress: Making Topology a Requirement
for GIS
- Data: GIS as Standardized Package with socially constructed
Boundary Objects: Wetlands as an example of boundary objects
- Results: Case Study of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Siting
Institute for Teaching Excellence, third annual workshop
(2001) in Forks, Washington (ONRC); my
proposal, my presentation,
results...
Olympic Natural Resources Center: Geospatial
Data and Metadata Project
Second Edition of a GIS textbook: Exploring
GIS
- Cooperation avec UMR ESPACE, Montpellier, France (2000)
- Critical History
of GIS: subject / researcher
Who is this Nick Chrisman?
| Publications: a GIS textbook: Exploring
GIS |
Charting
the Unknown
| Historical (web-based) Presentations
| Current
collaborators and students | Disquistion on Web
Style for this site| So it is pictures you want? a
gratuitous GIF
The pages referenced below here are updated on varying cycles (most content is rather historical, therefore frozen in its past state, with all manner of dead links),
this page last changed 20 September 2019