ESRI will be holding ArcGIS User Seminars where you will learn how to be more effective with ArcGIS and get a close look at what’s new in version 10.5. You’ll return to the office with practical tips and skills to use right away, including:
Register today to save your seat for the ArcGIS User Seminar.
Check out these free, educational webinars from the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO), taking place this November.
Beyond Google – Another Look at Finding Government Information, November 9, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Eastern): https://www.fdlp.gov/about-the-fdlp/fdlp-events-calendar/event/220-beyond-google-another-look-at-finding-government-information
OSHA’s Web Pages: A Wealth of Occupational Safety Information, November 10, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Eastern): https://www.fdlp.gov/about-the-fdlp/fdlp-events-calendar/event/223-osha-s-web-pages-a-wealth-of-occupational-safety-information
Measuring America Series: Accessing International Data, November 16, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Eastern): https://www.fdlp.gov/about-the-fdlp/fdlp-events-calendar/event/221-measuring-america-series-accessing-international-data
U.S. Naval War College Information Resources: Maritime, Naval History, Geopolitical, and Educational Treasures, November 17, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Eastern): https://www.fdlp.gov/about-the-fdlp/fdlp-events-calendar/event/222-u-s-naval-war-college-information-resources-maritime-naval-history-geopolitical-and-educational-treasures
Science Soup: Mix Your Way through the Ingredients of Some Major Science Databases: Science.gov, PubMed, and WorldWideScience, November 29, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Eastern): https://www.fdlp.gov/about-the-fdlp/fdlp-events-calendar/event/226-science-soup-mix-your-way-through-the-ingredients-of-some-major-science-databases-scitence-gov-pubmed-and-worldwidescience
Using the BEA Interactive Data Tool to get Local Data, November 30, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Eastern): https://www.fdlp.gov/about-the-fdlp/fdlp-events-calendar/event/224-using-the-bea-interactive-data-tool-to-get-local-data
Presenters from GPO, other Federal Government agencies, and from Federal depository libraries across the Nation will present on topics related to Federal Government information and the Federal Depository Library Program. All sessions are presented virtually through GPO’s FDLP Academy: https://www.fdlp.gov/about-the-fdlp/fdlp-academy.
Attendees will receive a Certificate of Participation from GPO for each webinar they attend. Closed captioning is available for all webinars. Registrants will be sent access information upon registering. View their complete archive of recorded webinars and webcasts at http://login.icohere.com/public/topics.cfm?cseq=1172.
This course is for people who know something about spatial analysis and want to learn what ArcGIS Online has to offer. You’ll get free access to the full analytical capabilities of ArcGIS Online during the course. Course at a glance:
Very soon ESRI Press will be releasing the 8th edition of “Map Use: Reading, Analysis, Interpretation”. The e-book will be available September 19th and the print book on November 7th.
Map Use is a comprehensive, foundational textbook, providing students with the knowledge and skills to read and understand maps, and offers professional cartographers a thorough reference resource. Continue reading
Every semester, I give my GIS students (generally planners and public administrators) a rundown of how GIS is being used in our communities. At the Esri conference this year, I saw many new applications and thought I’d ask my colleagues what they are doing now with GIS. If you could send me a map, picture, screen shot or something similar along with a sentence or two of what you are doing, I’d be delighted to have it. I will be happy to share when it is all compiled. You can reach me at barrywaite@outlook.com. The focus is on how we use GIS to solve problems.
By the way, for those of you who hadn’t heard, I have graduated from the City of Carson after 29 years. I’m thinking of becoming a cowboy or an astronaut, but I’ll keep teaching and want to stay in contact with all my GIS friends!
Many thanks!
Barry Waite
Instructor, USC Price School of Public Policy
ESRI is having another free MOOC on building apps. This course will show you how to combine location and narrative in one application to better communicate and broadcast your story, create custom web applications that solve problems in your community, and build powerful native applications for iOS and Android devices without touching a piece of code. If you are a developer, you’ll be interested in ESRI’s APIs, SDKs, and the buzzing GeoDev community.
The free course goes on for 4 weeks (July 20 to August 17) and you will receive a certificate of completion and awards. Check out the syllabus and sign up if you are interested.
The U.S. Geological Survey is hosting the eighth in a series of webinars on hydrography on Thursday May 19, 2016 at 2:00 PM ET. The topic of this webinar will be lidar technology and implications for hydrology and hydrography. High-quality hydrographic data are critical to a broad range of government and private applications.
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit a chapter for the book “Volunteered Geographic Information and the Future of Geospatial Data”, scheduled for release in 2017.
For further information, please visit http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1945 .
Submission proposal deadline: May 14, 2016 (1-page proposal).
Please kindly help circulate this call among your colleagues and students who may be interested.
Dr. Claudio Campelo, UFCG, Brazil
Dr. Michela Bertolotto, UCD, Ireland
Dr. Padraig Corcoran, Cardiff University, UK
(Editors)
Learn what spatial analysis can do for you with a free online course from ESRI. The course is for people who know something about spatial analysis and want to learn what ArcGIS Online has to offer. You will get free access to the full analytical capabilities of ArcGIS Online during the course:
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