Have a few minutes to spare before your next task? Open Google Maps and turn on the satellite imagery. Now zoom all the way out until you see Earth and listed on the left are planets, moons, and other objects you can zoom to and check out. See you in an hour!
SoCal does not experience avalanches very often. Since 1950, at least 64 people have died in avalanches in California with 9 of those in SoCal, according to this article.
Snow avalanches can cause a significant loss of life. As a naturally occurring disaster they are unique in nature, usually being highly localized events, and often in remote areas. Their victims are often voluntarily at risk for recreation purposes and become the trigger of their own avalanche.
Avalanche forecasting seeks to safeguard recreationists in winter mountain environments using risk based decision making. Avalanche experts interpret the spatial and temporal distribution of hazards and abstractly present these in the form of a forecast. Recreationists can then use them for planning excursions into avalanche prone terrain and avoid high risk slopes that pose a hazard.
Check out this article on how Scotland looked at using GIS to make cartographic visualizations of predicted avalanche danger areas.
Sir Francis Galton was the first to identify the anticyclone (as opposed to the cyclone), and introduced the use of charts showing areas of similar air pressure – the modern weather map. His book Meteorographica was the first systematic attempt to gather, chart and interpret weather data on a continental scale, a fundamental work of modern scientific meteorology.
Galton prepared the first weather map published in the British newspaper The Times (April 1 1875, showing the weather from the previous day, March 31), now a standard feature in newspapers worldwide. Click below to read more about Sir Francis Galton.
Standing out on the shoreline, have you ever wondered if you set sail straight ahead across the sea what other beach would you run into? Check out the Beyond The Sea interactive map. You can move your mouse along a shoreline or click on a country to visualize all the locations which lie directly across the sea. Location names will be displayed once the track hits land. Colors of the lines represent the different destination continents. Try the Start Fireworks button too for an impressive display!
ESRI has opened up the registration for the 2019 ESRI User Conference in San Diego. Register now and get your favorite hotel while they last!
PS – Most of the government rates have been taken at the closer hotels already! 😦
Starting the night of December 5th, ESRI will be changing the user types in ArcGIS Online. Right now there is a Level 1 and Level 2 user, where Level 1 was a viewer only and Level 2 could publish and edit data. After the change there will be 5 user types: Viewer (formally Level 1), Editor, Field Worker, Creator (formally Level 2), and GIS Professional.
The new user types include a mix of capabilities and included applications. For example, the Field Worker user type includes the ability to edit existing datasets through field apps like Survey123, Workforce, and Collector. The different functions of each user type can be found here. Read the ESRI blog about the new user types here.
ESRI states your current user settings will not change … I would check that after December 5th! Role settings will not change.
Looking for that interesting map book or atlas for the cartographic nut in your family? Or maybe for you! Check out this listing of map books that were published or are scheduled to be published in 2018, with a few in 2019.
Warren Roberts at Rio Hondo College has a Survey and Mapping With Drones session on December 14 that all are invited to attend at 10am. It is free. The location is at a field station in Claremont. If you are interested, you need to register at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lF0-_uujCZst7h5cPCzf5y_PPKHyDFrw/view?usp=drivesdk .
Any questions should go to Warren Roberts at gisteacher@gmail.com .
20 years have passed since the last atlas of desertification was published by the EU. Within that short period, the environment has undergone enormous global changes due largely to human activities. Fortunately, because of the massive increase and growth in the availability of global and regional datasets, and the tools necessary to analyze them, significant progress has been made in understanding human-environment interactions. Continue reading
The Los Angeles County Countywide Address Management System (CAMS) is a system that supports the County’s role in maintaining accurate, authoritative, geospatially referenced, situs (physical) address information for the entire County of Los Angeles including all incorporated Cities within.
The Los Angeles County eGIS Group is hosting an meeting for the incorporated city jurisdictions on December 6th. This meeting is intended to open the lines of dialog regarding “Addressing Authority” roles, responsibilities, and build an addressing partnership for LA County Cities and the countywide address process.
For more information about CAMS, visit the LA County Enterprise GIS website. To register for the meeting click below.
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