The Southern California Association of Governments, or SCAG, is excited to announce a major opportunity for college and university students in the region. On May 2, 2019 SCAG’s annual Regional Conference & General Assembly will feature a special Student Showcase session featuring sustainability planning posters and GIS Story Maps selected through a competitive application process. This will be an opportunity for students to share their work with more than 1,000 elected officials, planners, and regional leaders.

Students whose projects are chosen will be designated as SCAG Conference Fellows, receiving complimentary event registration, hotel accommodation and admission, and access to local elected officials and planning experts on Southern California. Additionally, projects from each category will be will be selected to compete for thousands of dollars in cash prizes, four cash prizes totaling $6,000.

For more information about the contest, click here.

Students may also sign up for free Story Map training on March 15th at SCAG.  To register for the training session, please RSVP here.

For questions, please contact Mike Jones at (213) 236-1978 or jonesm@scag.ca.gov.

As we approach the date when the new State Plane Coordinate System of 2022 (SPCS2022) is established as part of modernizing the National Spatial Reference System, the NGS will be holding a webinar about the final SPCS2022 policy and procedures.  For more info on the changes, read this previous posting on the topic.

Back in 2015 I wrote about the planned retirement of NAD 83 and NAVD 88.  Well, it’s almost here.  The new replacement datums are coming in 2022.

To improve the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS), NGS will replace the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83) and the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88) with a new geometric reference frame and geopotential datum in 2022.

The new reference frames Continue reading →

ArcGIS 10.7 Prerelease is available for download now from My ESRI.  This includes Desktop, Engine, and Enterprise.  What’s new in 10.7 can be found here.  System requirements here.  Release note here.  The quick start guide can be found here.

The ArcGIS Desktop and Engine 10.7 setup packages are designed to detect and upgrade an existing installation of the same ArcGIS product. The settings for the installation location, License Manager (for Concurrent Use), or authorization information (for Single Use) are retained during the upgrade.  Continue reading →

ArcGIS Pro 2.3 just became available today.  Check out what’s new here.

Quite a few customer requests were added to this release.  To view what they are, ESRI has made a video of each request.

More info can be found here.  Release notes can be found here.

The system requirements for 2.3 can be found here.  ArcGIS Pro will not be supported on Windows 7 after January 2020.

And if you have been running ArcGIS Pro on a Mac using Parallels or VMware Fusion, at 2.3 you will not be able to do that anymore.  Instead you must use Boot Camp.  Read more about that here.