July 4th will be here soon and that means Fireworks! The fireworks app I have used for the past few years has been updated. It includes the cities in LA, Orange, Ventura, and Riverside County. If you love fireworks and want to find out where you can legally buy and shoot them off in SoCal, check out the app!
If your organization participates in LARIAC, then you probably know that right now you have Early Access to the 2017 imagery (both orthos and obliques) in Pictometry’s online CONNECTExplorer application. Keep in mind the Early Access imagery still has work to be done on it, but at least you can take a look at the new stuff while they are working on it.
One thing you can do is bring some of the ortho imagery into your ArcGIS Desktop environment. Here are the simple steps to do so:
The GeoTIFF images are actually using geographic coordinates (WGS84), but they reproject very well into State Plane.
This is a very quick way to bring in the new 2017 Early Access imagery into your maps if you need to. As the imagery is cleaned up and worked on to create preliminary images, there will be map services setup for you to consume in your applications. But for now, you can use these steps. Enjoy! -mike
For much of the last decade, digital maps have helped people pull up basic directions while walking and driving. But tech and auto companies are investing in a new generation of maps for a much more demanding audience: self-driving cars. Click below to read the article about “HD maps”.
Today there will be a meetup, June 22nd at 11am (PDT), about what’s coming in the ArcGIS for Local Government UC 2017 release as well as ArcGIS for Local Government events at the ESRI User Conference in July. If you are interested, please join the meetup today by registering here.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Video recordings and slides from all presentations at the 2017 Geospatial Summit are now available online. Check them out!
The USGS is requesting information from the land imaging community for user requirements for future Landsat systems. To view the RFI go to www.fedconnect.net, click on “Search Public Opportunities Only”, then choose search by “Reference Number” which is G17PS00634. Click on right side of the screen to view the RFI document. An overview:
This is a Request for Information – User Needs for Future Landsat Missions. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Land Remote Sensing Program has collected a diverse set of U.S. Federal civil user measurement needs for moderate-resolution land imaging to help formulate future Landsat missions. The primary objective of this RFI is to determine if these needs are representative of the broader Landsat user community, including, but not limited to, private sector, government agencies, non-governmental organizations and academia, both domestic and foreign. Responses to this RFI will be considered along with other inputs in future system formulation. Please see the RFI for full details.
Please pass along to your land imaging constituents this information. Any inquiries about the RFI can be sent to the Contracting Officer, Vickie Floyd (vfloyd@usgs.gov), during the open RFI period. Responses are due no later than 11:00 am ET, July 14, 2017.
If you have converted your ArcGIS Pro licenses from Online to Concurrent Use, you must upgrade your ArcGIS Licenses Manager to 10.5.1 to use ArcGIS Pro 2.0. There is a GeoNet article on how to do it. Enjoy!
The CGIA and SoCal URISA are hosting a Pizza Night social at the ESRI User Conference in July. More info and to RSVP here.
If you are planning ahead for the ESRI User Conference in July, there will be a State and Local Government Social. Click here for date and time. Don’t miss it!
Thinking about migrating away from ArcGIS Desktop and start using ArcGIS Pro? There is an article on ESRI’s GeoNet that one person has posted about doing just that. Check out their experience doing so here. Make sure to read the comments too, great info!
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