Claremont Graduate University and IBM are hosting a Big Data Conference. The conference is free and open to the public. For more info and to register, click below.
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Vote For The ESRI UC Look
Like last year, ESRI will be taking votes for the 2015 UC look. You have until November 18th to cast your vote.
A Change In Road Widths Could Reduce Traffic Deaths
Jeff Speck, a city planner based in Washington, D.C., thinks there’s fix that could make the roads safer that doesn’t involve new technologies like self-driving cars or systems that beep when your car gets to close to another car. According to Speck, just making road lanes narrower could reduce vehicular deaths. Click below to read the article.
Collector for ArcGIS 10.2.7 Updated
If you use ESRI’s Collector for ArcGIS in your organization, it looks like they have updated the software to 10.2.7 for both iOS and Android platforms.
For the iOS platform, Collector now fully supports the new resolutions introduced with iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. In addition, a number of key software defects were addressed.
For more info, visit the announcement here.
ArcGIS/Oracle Bug
If you use Oracle to store your Enterprise Geodatabase, you should hold off with installing Oracle’s Critical Patch Update released on October 14th, 2014. The patch update will prevent ArcGIS Desktop from connecting to it and your connections will hang or crash. ESRI recommends NOT TO INSTALL THE UPDATE. More on this issue here:
http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/43293
New and Correct Map of the United States
Abel Buell’s New and Correct Map of the United States is showcased in the ongoing Library of Congress exhibition “Mapping a New Nation”.
This landmark map of extraordinary significance to the historical record of the United States was published by Abel Buell in 1784. Notably, this is the first map of the newly independent United States compiled, printed, and published in America by an American. Additionally, it is also the first map to be copyrighted in the United States. Only seven copies are known to exist and survive in major institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain. The copy on display is considered to be the best preserved of all extant editions and was officially deposited with the Library by Mr. David Rubenstein in January 2010. Check it out!
Groundwater Loss in California
More scary pictures about the drought, this one about California groundwater loss. NASA used satellites to measure the Earth’s gravity field, which is influenced by many factors including stored water in the soil and rocks. Click on the image to read the article.
ArcGIS Pro is Here!
According to the ArcGISPro twitter feed, the pre-release of ArcGIS Pro will start next week.
The National Map Small-Scale Collection
The National Map is now offering a collection of small-scale datasets that can be downloaded for free. Although the 1997-2014 Edition of the National Atlas of the United States was retired in September 2014, The National Map recognizes the importance of continuing to make a collection of the small-scale datasets, originally developed for the National Atlas, available to users. Click image below for more info.
Google Maptoberfest
Dear Developers + Mappers:
Please join me for the inaugural Google Maptoberfest. Engineers and Product Managers from the Google Maps team will be on hand for you to ask questions about our mapping tools and APIs. We also want to hear about your apps and sites and learn more about how developers are building great maps and location based experiences.
Register for Maptoberfest here. Date, time and location below.
Best,
Brian McClendon
VP, Google Maps and Google Earth
Google Maptoberfest
October 29, 2014, 5:00pm – 9:00pm
Obscura Digital, 729 Tennessee St., San Francisco
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