Category Archives: Conferences/Meetings

Water/Wastewater User Group Meetings

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Please join ESRI for the Fall 2013 Water / Wastewater User Group Meeting! Two dates/locations to choose from, agendas attached. Lunch will be provided!

Fall Water/Wastewater User Group – Otay Water Dist. – Spring Valley, CA
REGISTER | AGENDA

Date Thursday, November   7, 2013
Location Otay   Water   District
2554   Sweetwater Springs Blvd
SPRING VALLEY, CA 91978
Time 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM
Check-in 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Fall Water/Wastewater User Group Meeting – Park Water Co. – Downey, CA
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Date Thursday,   November 14, 2013
Location Park   Water Co.
9750   Washburn Rd.
DOWNEY, CA 90241
Time 10:00   AM – 1:30 PM
Check-in 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM

SoCal URISA Seminar – ESRI and Open Source Web Mapping

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Upcoming event information:
So Cal URISA – ESRI and Open Source Web Mapping ESRI, Redlands, CA
Date: 22 Oct 2013 9:00 AM

Schedule
8:30am – 9:00am:  Arrival and networking
9:00am:  Start
9:00am – 10:30am:  ESRI – Web Mapping, Ryan Hunsicker – MapBox
10:30am – 10:45am:  Networking Break
10:45am – 12:00pm:  2 Presentations 1/2 Hour each or 6 Lightning Talks – 10 Minutes each

ESRI Campus Tour – Limit 12

Location:
ESRI Headquarters
380 New York Street
Redlands, CA 92373

Check in at main lobby in Building Q

Free to So Cal URISA Members

For more information and to register online: http://socalurisa.org/Events_201310_ESRI_WebMap.html

If you are interested in presenting for either a 1/2 hour or giving a lightning talk, we still have spots to fill.  If you are interested in either, please contact Ryan Hunsicker.

Best regards,
Southern California Chapter of URISA

Sharpen Your GIS Skills Seminar

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As a GIS professional, you have to maintain your edge. Esri invites you to hone your tradecraft at the Sharpen Your GIS Skills seminar. This free, half-day event will show you best practices to accomplish your tasks and update your workflows to increase your effectiveness.

Attend this seminar to do the following:

  • Learn how and when to use basic to complex analysis tools to drive better decision making
  • Find out about the wealth of data, templates, and other resources available for your projects
  • Get ideas for extracting more value and better information from your existing software and data
  • Increase your knowledge of the latest GIS tools and how you can take advantage of them
  • Expand your professional network by meeting Esri staff and others who are using ArcGIS to solve similar challenges

Space is limited. Find the seminar location in your area and register today!  NOTE: For those in the SoCal area, there is one on October 1, 2013 in Anaheim.

2013 ESRI Conference – Some Surprises

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As the 2013 ESRI Conference wraps up this week, I wanted to mention a few pleasant surprises this year that might mean some big things for government GIS.

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This year ESRI’s focus was on web GIS. Their products are definitely maturing and integrated with the web. I remember hearing “ArcGIS is now a web GIS”.

One of the surprises was Portal for ArcGIS. If you have an advanced license of ArcGIS Server, Portal is now included for the 10.2 release as an extension. If you have a standard license, you will need to purchase the extension. If you don’t know what Portal is, just think of it as ArcGIS Online that you can install on your own server (Web GIS on Premises). For us government GIS types, this opens up some fantastic options for internal use on our own networks. One big thing that I liked was the ability to use single sign on with Portal. You can import your active directory logins into Portal so you don’t have to create a bunch of logins manually like in ArcGIS Online.  When users go to your Portal site, they will not have to login since they already logged into their computer.  Nice!

Another interesting surprise was the new ArcGIS Professional product. It has a clean ribbon interface with tabs (think Microsoft Office look and feel), is fast, and integrates 2D and 3D together. It was pretty slick. ESRI said if you can use ArcMap, you can use ArcGIS Professional.  Here are some other properties:

  • 64 bit
  • Fast 2D/3D graphics engine
  • Multiple maps and multiple layouts
  • Multi-threaded application
  • Integrated with ArcGIS Online/Portal
  • ArcMap/ArcCatalog/ArcGlobe fused together into one application
  • Project centric workflows
  • Simple search and query
  • Integrated with ESRI Solutions (Local Gov, Address Mgt, Water Util, etc)
  • Task Assistant to help you with editing (put tools together for a task and many tasks as a workflow)
  • Updates will not require uninstall/reinstall
  • Extensible with addins, python scripting, .NET API

My impression of ArcGIS Professional is that it was a replacement for ArcMap, though ESRI said it was not. Both will function together on the same computer. I attended the Desktop Road Ahead workshop, thinking that I would see where ArcMap and the Desktop product was going, but instead it turned out to be a big demo of ArcGIS Professional. Hmm.  During one of the demos, the presenter slipped up and called it ArcGIS 11 then quickly corrected and called it ArcGIS Professional! Hmm again … time will tell.

As for ArcGIS Professional licensing, ESRI said it was too early to announce, but they were considering a simplified subscription based model. ArcGIS Professional is slated for a Q4 2013 release, probably in November.

One last surprise was ESRI publishing videos of the Plenary session the next day. That was fast! You can view them here: http://bit.ly/18BBX0A.  I wonder how fast the workshops will be published?

Oh, and walking back to my hotel I discovered a wall of Etch-a-Sketch’s that you could draw maps or whatever on! Pretty neat.

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Looks like someone took one home!

That’s all for now.  Time for the Thursday night party!  Please reply to this post and share your conference observations too!  -mike

GIS Group – Women In GIS

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Hello Fellow GIS Colleagues,

We are in the process of developing a new GIS group, Women In GIS.  Both men and women are welcome to join.  We will be meeting at ESRIUC on Wednesday, July 10th from 12:00 to 1:00 in Room 30A (please bring your own lunch).  We hope you can join us in a discussion of where we are going and what is next on the horizon.   Please include any friends interested in coming, all are welcome to join!

If you are interested in joining our listserve, see the instructions below. Looking forward to a productive ESRIUC! See you soon!

Subscribe instructions for Women in GIS listserve:

Send an email to: Majordomo@csun.edu
In the body of the email type: Subscribe wigis-g

To unsubscribe:

Send an email to: Majordomo@csun.edu
In the body of the email type: Unsubscribe wigis-g

That’s it. It doesn’t matter what is in the subject line.  Send me an email if you have any trouble: shawna.dark@csun.edu.

Right now the listserve is open to everyone, inquiries and responses will go to everyone. If traffic gets heavy I can adjust the settings for summary responses only.  Finally, we will also be forwarding to you a new website for our group, keep your eye out for this information soon!

Regards,

Christina, Danielle, Lori, Patricia, Regan, Ruthanne, Shawna, and the rest of the Women doing GIS!!
_______________________________________________________________________
Dr. Shawna Dark
Chair, Department of Geography
Director, Center for Geographical Studies (http://www.csun.edu/~centergs/)
California State University, Northridge
818-677-3532

SoCal URISA Networking Social

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During the ESRI Conference, SoCal URISA invites you to a Networking Social at:

Bootlegger Bar & Restaurant
Corner of 8th & Market, downtown San Diego
(Seven blocks from the Convention Center)
Wednesday, July 10th, 2012
4:00-7:00pm

Drinks and appetizers will be served.  Free for Members!  If you are not a member, you can join online or on-site for $30 individual, $10 students.

Please register at:  www.socalurisa.org

Spatial@ucsb.local13 Poster & Plenary Sessions

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Spatial data come in many forms—from geo-referenced coordinates and areal units on a map to diagrams and the coding of sound with musical notation. The sources of such data include, among many others, human creativity, the Census, trajectories of movements from GPS, and the social networks represented by online contacts. Problem solving in the science, business, and design disciplines, and aesthetic renderings in the arts increasingly make use of spatial visualization technologies to represent and interpret the patterns and processes that define natural and human worlds at scales ranging from the molecular to the astronomical.  spatial@ucsb.local2013 brings together leading contributors to the art and science of visualization for demonstrations of applications and discussion. The Visualization of Spatial Data Plenary Session will feature presentations by Jason Dykes (School of Informatics, City University London), JoAnn Kuchera-Morin (Media Arts and Technology Program, UCSB), and Ross Whitaker  (Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI), University of Utah).

On Thursday, June 6, 2013, spatial@ucsb.local2013 will host a Poster Session and Plenary Session on this theme. The event will be held at Corwin Pavilion. Posters can be viewed from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.; the Plenary Session will be from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Karen Doehner, kdoehner@spatial.ucsb.edu.