Check out this NASA map showing fractional turf grass (lawn) area across the United States. The associated article notes how common lawns are across the country despite a wide variability of climate and soils. Please note the article was dated 2005.
For more information about the July 2015 California GIS Council Meeting, visit their website here.
ESRI has a free Spatial Analysis course that you can take online. Here are a few more details:
For more info and to register, visit their sign up page.
High-quality hydrographic data are critical to a broad range of government and private applications. Resource management, infrastructure planning, environmental monitoring, fisheries management, and disaster mitigation all depend on up-to-date, accurate, and high-quality hydrographic data. The U.S. Geological Survey National Geospatial Program has begun a series of virtual seminars to highlight the uses of hydrographic data. The next seminar will be on July 30 at 2 pm EDT. These seminars are intended to share success stories from users who have solved real world problems using hydrographic data, provide information about the National Hydrography Dataset and related products, and provide a virtual forum for users, similar to what might be encountered in a conference setting.
Connections are limited, and you will need to register to attend these seminars. Please visit this site here to sign up. After your registration is approved, you will receive instructions for joining the meeting.
The next seminar will feature Anita Stohr of the Washington Department of Ecology discussing applications of hydrography within the State of Washington. There will also be lightning talks by Susan Phelps of AECOM, and David Holtschlag of the USGS Michigan-Ohio Water Science Center. They will discuss developing local-resolution hydrography from lidar; and UFINCH, a method for estimating unit and daily flows in a stream network defined by the National Hydrography Dataset with Value-Added Attributes (NHDPlus) using daily flows from USGS streamgages, respectively.
For full abstracts and biographies of the speakers, or for information about past hydroseminars, please visit the Hydrography Seminar Series website.
The Soviet Military secretly mapped the entire world, but few outsiders have seen the maps … until now. Check out this article from Wired Magazine about the secret world of Russia’s cold war mapmakers.
Thanks goes to Barry Waite from the City of Carson for sending us this link.
If you are looking for images of old maps, OldMapsOnline.org is the resource for you. It is the world’s largest portal for freely available, high-resolution images of historic maps, bringing together many of the world’s largest online historic map collections in a single search interface. Check it out.
Found this interesting article comparing 6 web map providers: ArcGIS Online, CartoDB, MapBox, SimpleMappr, MangoMap, and Click2Map.
After attending a few workshops on ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Sever today, here are a few things that I noted and thought you all might find interesting. If you work on the bleeding edge, you probably already know!
ArcGIS Pro
ArcGIS Server
For those of you that arrived in San Diego on Sunday, you were greeted by a downpour of rain that lasted into the night. However, that all cleared up today for the 36th Annual ESRI User Conference.
During this morning’s Plenary Session, Jack emphasized the “Geography Everywhere” theme and touched on the usual things like web GIS and sharing data. Really there were few surprises. However, they did have a cute little skit about all their apps, posing like individuals in a dating service to get your attention to use them. It was a different way of showing you all the choices you have when it came to apps. You can even vote for your favorite app here.
Here are a few new announcements that might be of interest:
I would suspect that ESRI will have the Plenary Session video online sometime today. I will update this post when it becomes available for you to watch at home! -mike
4:25pm update: Click here for today’s videos.
SoCalGIS.org 