The National Weather Service models are showing a very wet storm for the LA area today, including flash flood watches, high surf advisories, and wind advisories.
Here are some forecast rain totals for today and tomorrow (Friday night being the heaviest). Continue reading
In January, the City of Long Beach launched an open data portal that aims to give the public clear, visual information they can use. In addition to maps, DataLB provides access to applications that put city data in context.
Developed with ESRI, DataLB’s applications focus on visualizing the impact of initiatives and public investments. Check it out!
After almost 80 years in business, the owner of The Map Store in Milwaukee will be closing the doors in April. Read about the owner and the store history, and maybe buy a few maps before they close! Click below for the story.
Looking for an alternative to ArcGIS Server but still want to use ESRI’s other products? Maybe CloudSpatial is for you. Announcing the Beta release of CloudSpatial GIS Server – an ESRI Geoservices REST Implementation. CloudSpatial is a drop in replacement for ArcGIS Server that works with all ESRI API’s and ArcGIS Desktop. CloudSpatial was created as an alternative to ArcGIS Server for organizations that have existing investments / apps built with ESRI technology but would like to reduce the ongoing expense of ArcGIS Server and/or ArcGIS Online. CloudSpatial can also be used by customers that want an ESRI compatible, inexpensive, lightweight and easy to use system for their spatial infrastructure. See how easy it is to setup and use by watching the screencasts. More info at cloudspatial.com/gisserver.
ArcGIS Pro 1.4 is now available. Some of the new features include supporting the production of georeferenced ortho products, sharing dynamic image services, georeference CAD data, create graticules, multipatch editing, changing the interface theme, controlling feature layers with display filters, new interactive selection tool for 2D views, new 3D symbols, create vector tile packages, vector tiles can now be printed and exported, and much more!
Here is a listing of what’s new. You can download the software from your ESRI account.
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, many believed California was a remote island with plenty of gold, free-loving amazons, and strange beasts.
A new exhibit at Cal State Fullerton’s Pollak Library features a selection of maps from the Roy V. Boswell Collection for the History of Cartography, one of the University’s special collections. The exhibit, “California As an Island and Worlds That Never Were,” will be on display Jan. 22 to March 29 in the Salz-Pollak Atrium Gallery.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released the first image taken by Harris Corporation’s Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) onboard their next-generation weather satellite. The image taken from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 (GOES-16) is of Earth’s full western hemisphere with detailed cloud and water features.
Uber is providing access to anonymized data from over 2 billion trips to help improve urban planning around the world. Uber movement provides a new way on how traffic is moving around in your city. It was designed in partnership with urban planners and transportation professionals. Tools are included to analyze traffic changes over time. Check it out!
Thanks goes to Barry Waite for finding this one!
Jack Dangermond from ESRI talks about five GIS trends that are changing the world. Check it out.
52 19th and early 20th century maps of California have been added to the California Historical Society’s new Digital Library. The images represent a sampling of unique or uncommonly held titles ranging geographically from an 1863 map of the copper region of Del Norte County in the north, to a circa 1866 Topographical Map Showing the Locations of the Sutro Tunnel and the Comstock Lode, to a colorful 1913 townsite map of Date City (now called Calipatria) in Imperial County in the south. In between are city, county, mining, real property, water-supply, road, and railroad maps of various localities throughout the state. Check it out!
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