GIS Quality Control Technical Specialist – Pomona area
2017 ESRI User Conference Student Assistantship – ESRI, Redlands
GIS Technician – Fort Irwin Continue reading
Local GIS Jobs This Week
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Monthly Archives: September 2016
Finding Government Publications
The US government is one of the world’s largest publishers, both in paper and on the web. More than 200 years ago Congress authorized the sending of free copies of certain government publications to libraries around the country. This developed into the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), with more than 1,100 public, academic, and government libraries as members. Each of these libraries receives government materials for free, and is required to make them available to the public.
The Federal Depository Library Program is run by the Government Printing Office (GPO), which recently changed it’s name to Government Publishing Office in order to indicate it is now more involved with electronic data rather than paper.
If you are looking for government publications and other federal information, give these online sources a try: Continue reading
Oddly-Named Towns in the US
Check out this map and article about unusually named towns in the United States. You know you want to visit them on your next road trip!
California GIS Jobs This Week
GIS Analyst/Developer – San Francisco area
GIS Analyst – Edwards AFB
Geospatial Engineer – San Francisco area
Supervisor GIS Analytics – San Francisco area
GIS Technician – Fort Irwin
GIS Technician – San Jose area
Crime Analyst – Daly City
Analyst – Fremont area
GIS Analyst – Calabasas area
ESRI ArcGIS Developer – San Diego area
GIS Applications Developer – Los Angeles area
GIS Specialist – City of Healdsburg
Map Layout Production Engineer – ESRI, Redlands
SCAG Wins in ESRI UC Map Gallery
The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) won Best of Show in the ESRI UC Map Gallery for its Visualization Tool – Scenario Planning Enhanced 3D GIS. They also won the award for Most Unique map for the same visualization tool.
Congratulations SCAG! Check them out and other award winners by clicking below.
ArcGIS for Local Gov Sept Release
ESRI has shipped the ArcGIS for Local Government September release. The release includes new solution offerings and a series of enhancements to existing solutions: Continue reading
Spider Diagrams
Recently I had a need to generate a spider diagram for my map. Spider diagrams, also called desire lines for business scenarios, are a series of rays drawn from a central point to related points. The result shows you the actual area of influence for each central point.
Some good examples would be store locations and customers that visit them, library locations and patrons’ home locations, or in my case fire station locations and incidents they responded to. Continue reading
Local GIS Jobs This Week
GIS Senior Analyst – Riverside County
GIS Intern – Inland Empire Utilities Agency, Chino
GIS Research Technician – La Cañada Flintridge area
Lyft Added To Google Maps
Last week Google announced that is has added support for Lyft and Gett to Google Maps for Android and iOS. Google Maps now displays ridesharing options from nine partners in over 60 countries:
- Gett in the UK (and now New York City)
- GO-JEK in Indonesia
- Grab in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines
- Hailo in the UK and Spain
- Lyft in the U.S.
- mytaxi in Germany and Spain
- Ola Cabs in India
- Uber around the world
- 99Taxis in Brazil
The feature works in the same way as other transportation options in Google Maps. For example, Continue reading
Happy Birthday California!
Today America’s most populous state and third largest by geographic area is 166 years young. California became the 31st American state on September 9, 1850.
Some fun facts that you might not know about the Golden State:
- California is home to the highest point in the continental U.S., the 14,494 foot Mt. Whitney.
- It is also home to the lowest point in the continental U.S., Death Valley, which drops down to 282 feet below sea level.
- The fortune cookie was invented here. At least the Americanized version. Efforts to trace its origins into the past and across the Pacific Ocean have been difficult, as documented by The New York Times and The Smithsonian.
- California is the only state to host the Summer (1932 & 1984) and Winter Olympics (1960).
- Our state song? “I Love You California.”
And here are some things that were going on in the world in the year 1850.
If you happen to be in Sacramento today, you can join in the festivities at the State Capital from 11am to 1pm.
