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Programming ArcGIS Pro with Python

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Eric Pimpler of Geospatial Training Services is giving away copies of his new book Programming ArcGIS Pro with Python.  Enter to win a copy, just click below!

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Chapters include:

  • Chapter 1: Introduction to the Python Programming Language
  • Chapter 2: Introduction to using Arcpy in ArcGIS Pro
  • Chapter 3: Executing Geoprocessing Tools from Scripts
  • Chapter 4: Using the Arcpy Mapping Module to Manage Projects, Maps, Layers, and Tables
  • Chapter 5: Managing Layouts
  • Chapter 6: Automating Map Production
  • Chapter 7: Updating and Fixing Data Sources
  • Chapter 8: Querying and Selecting Data
  • Chapter 9: Using the Arcpy Data Access Module
  • Chapter 10: Creating Custom Geoprocessing Tools

SoCal URISA GIS Day

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Your friends at SoCal URISA would like to encourage you to participate in GIS Day 2017 by visiting a local K-12 school to introduce/ promote GIS! There are plenty of ideas and resources on the GIS Day website. Posters, videos, and games are available for download. Scroll to the bottom to see the Children, Teen, and Adult hands-on activities.

If you do participate, please share your fun with us at: @URISAsocal or on our Facebook page.

SoCal URISA will have a booth set up at the LA County GIS Day event. Stop by to meet us and sign up for membership!

HAPPY GIS DAY 2017!

CSULB GIS Day Networking Social

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Dear Friends of CSULB Geography:

Just a reminder to let you know about CSULB’s GIS Day Networking Social. We hope you will join us.

Please join CSULB Geography for our Annual GIS Day Mixer!  Reunite with classmates, meet our current CSULB GIS students and build your professional geospatial network!

Wednesday November 15th
CSULB Geography GIS Day Mixer
6:00 – 9:30 PM  @ On the Rocks
5755 E. Pacific Coast Highway Long Beach CA

Please RSVP to Lynne.Harris@csulb.edu by November 10th.

 …What a way to top off your day of celebrations! I hope to see you there.

 

The Living New Deal

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During the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt promised the American people a “New Deal”.  From 1933 to 1943 a constellation of federally sponsored programs put millions of jobless Americans back to work and helped revive the economy.  The result was a rich landscape of public works projects across the nation.  No city , town, or rural area was untouched.  Hundreds of thousands of roads, schools, theaters, libraries, hospitals, post offices, courthouses, airports, parks, forests, gardens, and artworks – created in only one decade by our parents and grandparents – are still in use today!

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