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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
New Policy for GNIS
New Policy Regarding the Maintenance of Administrative Feature Names in the GNIS
Effective October 1, 2014: As a result of reprioritized budgets and resources, the decision has been made to suspend the maintenance of feature categories classified in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) as administrative (i.e., cultural or manmade).
However, a select number of administrative features will continue to be maintained by other USGS programs supporting The National Map. These features will be updated in GNIS on a periodic revision cycle. If you are interested in participating in the USGS National Map Corps program, which “encourages citizens to collect structures data by adding new features, removing obsolete points, and correcting existing data for The National Map database,” please visit the following web site: http://navigator.er.usgs.gov. To identify the administrative features to be maintained through The National Map Corps program, click Structures List, located on the left-hand side of the web page.
If you have further questions, please visit The National Map home page at: http://nationalmap.gov. Inquiries may be submitted to The National Map via the link at the bottom of the page.
California Drone Bill Vetoed
Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed legislation that would have limited when law enforcement agencies can use drones without obtaining warrants, his office announced Sunday.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/28/6743577/jerry-brown-vetoes-bill-to-limit.html#storylink=cpy
LA County Assessor Maps Have Moved
Just an FYI to all City GIS staff in LA County. If you have GIS applications or data that have links to the LA County Assessor maps, you might find them broken now. It looks like LA County has moved the links since they updated their Property Assessment Information System application here.
For example, this old PDF link:
http://maps.assessor.lacounty.gov/mapping/viewAssessorMapPDF.asp?val=2438-018
has been replaced with this new one:
http://maps.assessor.lacounty.gov/Geocortex/Essentials/REST/sites/PAIS/VirtualDirectory/AssessorMaps/ViewMap.html?val=2438-018
Burbank has a few apps that are broken now. I bet you do too! -mike
Death Valley’s Moving Rocks
For at least a century, the moving rocks of Death Valley have presented a puzzle, and researchers have been trying to solve it since 1948. The rocks, some of them boulders weighing more than 600 pounds, show signs of movement across the desert floor by leaving long trails behind them.
Explanations including dust devils, flooding, hurricane-strength winds, and even UFOs have been offered, but the mystery was finally solved when researchers caught the rocks in the act!
Check out the National Geographic article and watch the video below.
USGS Earthquake 101
The U.S. Geological Survey will host an educational event for the news media focused on earthquakes on Wednesday September 24, 2014. The goal of the event is to provide the press an opportunity to work with USGS staff to build knowledge about and confidence in the information delivery systems and people to create more timely and accurate reporting of earthquakes.
At this event, USGS scientists and public affairs staff will lead sessions in which journalists can refresh knowledge about basic principles about earthquakes, how to improve scientific accuracy when reporting on earthquakes, and about USGS resources to make your job easier. Find out about USGS public domain maps, images, and graphics that can be quickly and freely downloaded and reused following an earthquake.
Who: USGS geologists, geophysicists, and public affairs. See list below.
What: 30-minute plenary session with presentations on reporting on earthquakes and relevant USGS resources, followed by concurrent small group discussions with USGS researchers on various aspects of earthquake science. Subjects will include:
- Earthquake Early Warning vs. Earthquake Prediction, by Doug Given, Geophysicist
- Natural vs. Induced Seismicity, by Justin Rubinstein, Geophysicist
- Emerging New Technology: GPS, InSAR, LiDAR, by Ben Brooks, Geologist
- Shaking Intensity versus Earthquake Magnitude, by Brad Aagaard, Geophysicist
- Liquefaction, Landslides, & Fault Rupture, by Tom Holzer, Engineering Geologist
- USGS Real-time Online Earthquake Products, by David Wald, Geophysicist
- Is the Number of Large Earthquakes Increasing? by Jeanne Hardebeck, Geophysicist
- Earthquake Resources on the Web, by Lisa Wald, Geophysicist/Web Content Manager, Webmaster
- Foreshocks, Main Shocks, and Aftershocks, by Andrea Llenos, Geophysicist and Ruth Harris, Geophysicist
- Who/how/when and where to go for an interview concerning an earthquake, by Leslie Gordon, Public Affairs Specialist and Susan Garcia, Outreach Coordinator
When: Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. PDT
Registration: Please register online to participate in the workshop.
Where: U.S. Geological Survey, Main Auditorium, Bldg. 3, 2nd floor, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, Calif.
Online: The first 30 minutes of the event will be live video-streamed over the web, and archived online for later viewing.
First Maptime LA meetup This Thursday
Maptime LA will have their first meetup this Thursday in downtown LA. To RSVP, visit http://www.meetup.com/MaptimeLA/events/204145932/ .
MaptimeLA
MaptimeLA is a group of people working on maps, learning about geospatial data, and teaching each other the latest cartographic tools. Check them out and join today. They are also on Twitter.
