Project GeoSim Information Server
Project GeoSim is a joint research project of the Departments of
Computer Science and Geography at Virginia Tech. We are
creating education modules for introductory geography courses. These
modules typically have two parts:
- A tutorial program to introduce terms and concepts of the module.
- A simulation program with which to carry out lab exercises.
Project GeoSim Modules Available
The following GeoSim modules are currently available:
- Human Population (HumPop) and International Population (IntlPop)
- HumPop is a multimedia tutorial program.
IntlPop is a population simulation program.
- Migration Modeling (MigModel)
- MigModel is a migration modeling and simulation program.
- Mental Maps (MMap)
- MMap is a geography quiz program.
Project GeoSim software will run on the following systems:
- MS-DOS
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Macintosh
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DECstation with X-Windows
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SPARCstation with X-Windows
All Project GeoSim software is available via anonymous FTP
or Gopher at geosim.cs.vt.edu.
The GeoSim Gopher Server is available here.
GeoSim Interface Library
The Project GeoSim modules were implemented with the
GeoSim Interface Library (GIL). GIL is a small,
easy to use set of C language functions for building a graphical user
interface.
GIL hides all machine-dependent details from the programmer, so
that the same application source code can be used on all GIL-supported
systems.
GIL executables are available for the following systems:
- MS-DOS (Borland C++ 3.0)
- DECstation with X-Windows
- SPARCstation with X-Windows
Project GeoSim mailing list
To join our mailing list, send your e-mail address to
geosim@cs.vt.edu.
Virginia Tech Information
Information about other Internet services at
Virginia Tech is available here.
geosim@cs.vt.edu