The CSULB MSGISci program will be holding its first networking social this Friday October 11th from 5-7PM at El Torito, 6605 Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach. If you are available, please join us to connect with students and other professionals in the community. Please RSVP to Beth Moody (Beth.Moody@csulb.edu) before Friday.
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:
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.
Did you miss a few technical workshops at the 2013 ESRI International User Conference? Good news, there are many to watch now on ESRI’s video site. Check it out!
A free workshop will be hosted by the City of Murrieta Police Department. The workshop is designed to give the Public Safety Administrator and GIS Coordinator 10 ways to maximize the investment in 911 and GIS to produce highly efficient and effective mapping tools that depend on accurate GIS data. Attendees will be given the overall scope of how GIS data is used and developed for use in a 911 Public Safety mapping application such as Crime/Incident Mapping, Dispatch, Fires and EMS incident mapping, Address Management, Mobile and AVL, and Public Access tool.
The workshop will be held July 31, 2013 from 9am to 11:30am. You can register here.
FREE ON-LINE SEMINAR
Sponsored by ASPRS, CaGIS and GLIS
Open Source in Commercial GIS Software
Date & Time: July 26, 2013 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST
Attendance is limited, so Register Now.
The American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) GIS Division in partnership with the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) and the Geographic and Land Information Society (GLIS) would like to invite our members to attend our next seminar in the series for 2013.
Abstract: Unknown to many in the GIS industry, open source software plays a key role not only in academia and research but also in the proprietary/commercial realm as well. Most well-known commercial GIS applications leverage open-source software. This talk takes an insider’s view of this phenomenon and explores why this happens and why it makes sense for everyone. Using the most recent release of LizardTech’s Express Server as a specific case study, we’ll look at how we decided to use open source software in our product and how it worked out. No math. No code. Just interesting insights into software we all use every day.
About the Speaker: Michael Rosen is the Software Architect at LizardTech, the company that makes the MrSID image compression technology. He’s participated with and contributed to open source GIS projects over the past 13 years.
On-line Registration:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1558354674461623808
NOTE: Registration is limited to the first 95 people who sign up and log in to the seminar.
Questions, Contact:
David Alvarez, PCM, GISP
GIS Division Director (ASPRS)
davidalvarez76@gmail.com
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!!
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Dr. Shawna Dark
Chair, Department of Geography
Director, Center for Geographical Studies (http://www.csun.edu/~centergs/)
California State University, Northridge
818-677-3532
It’s not too late to register to attend the US DOT PHMSA Public Awareness Workshop on June 19 – 20, 2013 – either in person at the Hyatt Regency N. Dallas Hotel or via webcast.
Since 2005 pipeline operators have been required to have a Public Awareness Program per federal pipeline safety regulations. They must provide information to four stakeholder audiences categorized as: (1) affected public, (2) emergency officials, (3) local public officials, and (4) excavators.
The workshop will bring together stakeholders to discuss findings from recent federal and state public awareness inspections, and gain perspectives from various stakeholders on public awareness challenges and successes to identify ways to strengthen pipeline safety public awareness.
The primary goals of this workshop are to:
For more details, please visit http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/meetings/MtgHome.mtg?mtg=90 .
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.
Maps and the Geospatial Revolution is just one of many different types of courses offered at coursera.org … and they are free!
From Warren Roberts at Rio Hondo College:
GIS is increasingly used and GIS courses are needed. We work to keep GIS curriculum articulated with industry users in an effort to keep our lesson material practical and applied. We’re currently updating the certificate and gathering input from industry.
Meanwhile, can you take a couple of minutes to submit a answers to a short survey on importance of certificate. We appreciate your input and will share results at the end of the month.
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