Into a little history in LA County? I found this interesting map showing historic sites, old highways, battle fields, indian villages, gold mines, camps, towns, and other historical places of interest in old Los Angeles County. The map was created by George W. Kirkman and titled “The Kirkman-Harriman Pictorial and Historical Map of Los Angeles County 1860-1937”. Check it out on the LA Public Library website!
If you have apps using Silverlight, this is the year to plan and move them to HTML5. ESRI plans on deprecating ArcGIS APIs and Viewers for Silverlight, and Google plans to remove support for NPAPI (and therefore Silverlight) in Chrome. Note that IE and Firefox will still support Silverlight for some time.
If you have apps built on Geocortex technology, it is time for you to move to HTML5 for sure. Watch this video from a past webinar to help get your applications where they need to be for the transition.
Check out this interactive map comparing the annual average pay from 2004 and 2013. One-third of all US counties have seen their pay decline!
Planning on traveling during the holidays? Flying? Stay on top of the travel misery and view Flight Aware’s Misery Map. The map gives you an interactive look at travel across the country and overlays weather radar showing the obvious connection between bad weather and bad travel. Hover over an airport and view the connections and the misery. There is also a timelapse button to view the weather, and misery, in action!
Looking for aggregate census data and boundary files? Check out the National Historical Geographic Information System. They include census information from 1790 to the present.
Through the NHGIS Data Finder, users may:
All free of charge!
They have currently released:
NHGIS is also preparing the 2013 ACS 5-year Summary Files and 2013 GIS boundary files for release by early 2015.
After 25 years, the Census TIGER data is still in demand. Even the USGS plans on using it as the primary source of road mapping data for its National Map Viewer and Topo digital mapping applications.
The State of California is offering GIS services for organizations that need access to GIS resources. See the LA County eGIS posting here.
CGIA is looking for someone to create their next web application that will make accessible a list of GIS contacts throughout the State of California. The competition is open to anyone. First prize will be $1,500. Click here for more info.
As you read this post, there are many digital attacks going on over the internet. The most common is called the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. A DDoS attack is an attempt to make an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple sources. They target a wide variety of important resources, from banks to news websites, and present a major challenge to making sure people can publish and access important information. Watch this video to learn more. Click below to view real time and historical DDoS attacks worldwide.
The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) has released their 2014 Atlas of Design. The Atlas of Design is dedicated to showing off some of the world’s most beautiful and intriguing cartographic designs. Check it out and order your copy today!
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