The Association of American Geographers is looking for a diverse group of individuals representing a range of employment sectors, organizations, academic and professional backgrounds, to attend their Geography Careers event in 2016. For more information and to attend, click here.
SCE is looking for a GIS Technical Specialist to join their Geospatial Analysis Team.
Position Overview:
The Geospatial Analysis Team within Real Properties is seeking an experienced GIS Technical Specialist to serve on project teams to provide GIS support. The successful candidate will perform a wide variety of geospatial services by interfacing with internal/external clients to assess project requirements; create high-end analytical and cartographic map products utilizing various data types and sources; perform geospatial analysis for maps and/or reports; acquire data from various sources; create, maintain, and document (metadata). This position will also include the design, modeling, implementation, and maintenance of geospatial databases and identifying and evaluating potential GIS applications and tools to improve operational efficiency and integration of location-based information.
Essential Job Functions Include:
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s degree in GIS, Geography, Computer Science or related field; Geographic Information Systems Professional Certification (GISP).
Comments:
Deadline for resumes is 9/11/2015
This is a temporary 12-month position.
Candidates for this position must be legally authorized to work directly as employees for any employer in the United States without visa sponsorship.
The primary work location for this position is Rosemead, CA; however, the successful candidate may also be asked to work from other SCE facilities as needed.
Please direct all inquiries and resumes to Michael Hinton at michael.hinton@sce.com
Check out how Fontana Public Works is using GIS to make sure parks and public landscaped areas are being watered in accordance with drought regulations.
A friend of mine is currently working on looking at the issue of sexism within the field of GIS and would like to gather input from the greater GIS community via a survey. You can find the post and survey here.
The first world map created by Anaximander. The Catalan atlas commissioned by King Charles V of France. Dr. John Snow’s map of cholera deaths in London. Check out these early data visualizations and see how they developed over time without computers.
Not long ago, obtaining data for a GIS-based project was an arduous task. Because great time and effort was involved with either creating your own data or obtaining data that someone else created, you had to think carefully about the quality of the data that would go into your project. While it can still be cumbersome to obtain data at specific scales for specific areas, cloud-based data services, crowdsourced maps and databases and real-time streaming make it easy for anyone to obtain vast amounts of data in a short amount of time. In an environment where so much data is available, is data quality still of concern? Read more here.
GIS/Database Management – LAFCO of San Bernardino County
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A paid GIS student internship position opened up at the Port of LA.. More info here.
Travel in the slower days of 1906! Here is an interesting map using “isochronic” lines, specifically lines depicting points which may be reached in the same number of hours or days from London in 1906. Need to go to New York? That will be about 8 days of travel. San Francisco? That will be about 15 days. Santiago, Chile? You are looking at over 40 days of travel.
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Looks like ESRI has posted some of the tech session videos from the 2015 ESRI User Conference. Click below to check them out.
