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.
Have you tried to open a Microsoft Excel file in ArcMap and get the following error?
Error: Failed to connect to database. An underlying database error occurred. Class not registered.
I used to be able to open Excel files and now it stopped working. What happened? Well … our computers were recently upgraded to Microsoft Office 365 and when that happened it removed an important driver that ArcMap uses to open Excel files.
What to do? Head on over to this ESRI Technical Support article and install the Microsoft Office system driver. Don’t worry if you were using a version of Office other than 2007, the driver will work for you. It fixed my problem!
“Every map of a distant place is a picture of the past and a vision of a possible future.” Check out this interesting article about the history of planetary cartography.
Some of you might remember Wade Kloos when he was working at ESRI as an Account Manager for the LA and Orange County areas many years ago. He is currently the Director of Enterprise Systems at Utah Department of Natural Resources and has recently done a presentation at the 2018 NWGIS User Conference about why ROI studies rarely get done and how you can use a One-Page GIS ROI solution yourself for free!
He states, “By doing this ROI investigation yourself, Continue reading
Los Angeles County GIS has made the Woolsey Fire perimeter data available for download. Visit the page here for more info.
