{"id":23851,"date":"2006-09-07T12:01:24","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T19:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=23851"},"modified":"2015-08-17T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T22:09:00","slug":"parent-plots-to-get-to-know-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/parent-plots-to-get-to-know-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent plots to get to know campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Haugen got to know the NAU campus better than most parents\u2014or new students\u2014when he helped his son Andy move in two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Haugen\u00a0<a href=\"\/OPA\/Inside%20NAU\/bumps\/2006\/9_7_06\/NAU_facility_lat_long.JPG\" target=\"_blank\">plotted NAU buildings and facilities on a campus map<\/a>\u00a0using Global Positioning System coordinates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I use GPS devices frequently and find them very useful for finding locations that I am unfamiliar with,&#8221; Haugen wrote in an e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since I am in the process of assembling various GIS applications samples for a conference later in September, I thought that I might as well use the NAU campus for one sample,&#8221; he writes.<\/p>\n<p>Haugen said the exercise took three or four hours to complete &#8220;with a couple of coffee breaks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the exercise would help orient his son to campus, Haugen responded with the experience of a father: &#8220;Andy does not like getting advice from Dad, so he may or may not use the map information to his advantage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, he noted, &#8220;This sample may also have some utility for you in terms of your &#8216;techie&#8217; students, staff, parents, etc., who use the Global Positioning System.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/parent-plots-to-get-to-know-campus\/\">Joel Haugen got to know the NAU campus better than most parents\u2014or new students\u2014when he helped his son Andy move in two weeks ago. Haugen\u00a0plotted NAU buildings and facilities on a campus map\u00a0using Global Positioning System coordinates. &#8220;I use GPS devices frequently and find them very useful for finding locations that I am unfamiliar with,&#8221;&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}