BBC Article - Ukraine maps chart Crimea's troubled past

Check out this BBC article - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26476314 - on how historic maps chart the turbulent political past of the Crimea peninsula, Ukraine is currently going through another ownership battle.

Free online GIS Courses

Check out this article published on GIS Lounge during last year regarding free GIS training resources available via the internet - http://www.gislounge.com/learn-gis-for-free/

The options listed are:

• Itunes U - http://www.apple.com/education/it/
• Free courses from ESRI - http://training.esri.com/gateway/index.cfm?fa=search.results&searchterm=&search=Search&cannedsearch=2&OrderBy=CourseTitle%20asc&AllPage=All
• Harvard (Introduction to GIS) - http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/maps/gis/tutorials.html
• Opencourseware - Free courses from Universities - http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
• MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) GIS - Check the various links in the GIS Lounge article.