Question for the SoCalGIS group:
Has anyone switched from Oracle to SQL and noticed a performance gain/loss in their GIS capability? Editing, querying, accessing data, etc? And how were benchmarks tested?
Please send your responses to Erik Moule at ERMOULE@CITYOFPASADENA.NET.
Applications for the next round of AAG Cartography Specialty Group Master’s Thesis Research Grants are due by June 15, 2014.
Masters students enrolled full time are invited to apply for the CSG Master’s Thesis Research Grants. These grants are intended to promote scholarly research in cartography by students enrolled in Geography or a related degree program. Grants are available up to a maximum of $500 and may be used for items necessary and relevant to research, such as travel, materials, equipment, and human subject fees.
Deadlines for application are March 15, June 15, and November 1 of each year. Applications and inquiries should be directed to the CSG Non-Academic Director, Sarah Bell, at sbell@esri.com.
For more information and the application form, please visit http://www.csun.edu/~hfgeg003/csg/master.html. You can also access that page from the Awards and Competitions section of the main CSG Web site, http://www.csun.edu/~hfgeg003/csg.
Please share this announcement with your students or other organizations that may have potential applicants. Good luck in the competition!
Looking to learn Python or brush up on your Python skills? You can download for free Mark Pilgrim’s book Dive Into Python. Keep in mind this book is dated 2004 and uses Python 2.3 in the examples, but that should not stop you using the current version of Python and following along in the book. Click here to view the table of contents of the book before you decide to download.
Group: Geospatial LA
Subject: Geospatial LA is THIS WEDNESDAY, June 4th @ CalTech – 5:30pm
Imagin’ Labs & PIXIA Corporation are hosting the meeting this Wednesday in Pasadena for an evening focused on imagery, sensor data collection, processing and remote sensing.
PRESENTERS:
MEETUP DETAILS (hosted by Imagin’ Labs):
Date: Wednesday, June 4th Time: 5:30pm
Where: Caltech, 1200 E California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125 In the Buwalda room, first floor of the Arms building, which is building #25 on the campus map: http://www.caltech.edu/map/
Parking:
Free after 5pm in the campus structures, I suggest parking in structure #123 on the map, which is approximately at: 485 S Wilson ave, Pasadena, CA 91106
MEETUP SOCIAL (hosted by PIXIA Corporation):
When: Approximately 7:30pm – on
Where (New Location!): Lucky Baldwins Trappiste – 1770 East Colorado Blvd.
What does a humpback whale sound like? Or perhaps the White-cheeked Gibbon? The Nature Soundmap provides snippets of these sounds and much, much more. Visitors will find an interactive map of the world, complete with markers that allow audio wildlife travel from Central America to Central Asia. Symphonies of animal noises can also be found here. Each marker includes information about the animal or setting profiled, along with a link to More Info for the generally curious. Click below to check it out.
Stephen Wolfram has worked on the Wolfram Language for about 30 years now. The Wolfram Language is a knowledge based programming language. It’s a language with a vast amount of knowledge about how to do computations and it’s a language that has a model of the world built in. The symbolic nature of the language allows it to accommodate any style of programming. It can even use natural language. And it makes it really easy to create really powerful programs.
The goal of the Wolfram Language is to encapsulate as much computational knowledge as possible so people can go from ideas to deployed products as quickly and easily as possible. The Wolfram Language is a huge language, but it’s built on a small set of powerful principals:
You can run the Wolfram Language in the cloud and access it via mobile devices. You can take any Wolfram Language function and setup an instant API for it that you can call from anywhere on the web. For example, asking for a JSON output of some weather data for a user’s geo-location. The Wolfram Language can interact with connected devices using the Wolfram Data Framework (WDF).
And yes, the Wolfram Language has detailed maps of everywhere built in! This is the future of programming my friends! Check it out.
The talented archivists at Calisphere have curated a range of subjects on California history as part of their Local History Mapped series. This particular feature takes on Disasters in the Golden State by looking into the way disasters have affected buildings during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It’s a great subject and visitors can use the View Map feature to explore the state.
The homepage provides a brief synopsis of each major disaster type, along with resources for teachers, including class activities based on thematic collections of these images. Additionally the site includes a helpful document titled “How to Use Local History Mapped” and some complementary links from the Joint Committee on Geographic Education.
That reminds me of this book:
It’s very interesting with first hand accounts of California disasters from 1800 to 1900.
Here is a small but very good example why government should be using their own authoritative data and not depend of Google or Bing! Too many times I hear “just use Google maps, why should we spend money developing our own data, maps, and apps”.
LA County GIS is constantly setting the bar on developing great data and apps, using it, and sharing too! -mike
Hi all,
Attached you will find the agenda for the GIS Council Meeting to be held this Thursday May 22nd from 9am until noon in Sacramento. The address and teleconference/webinar information is included. We encourage people from all regions of California to participate in Thursday’s meeting, and in future California GIS Council Meetings. One agenda item is to plan out the meeting times and locations for at least the coming year, so please think about where/when we may hold some of the meetings in Southern California.
Please remember that this is the first meeting of the Council in over three years, so we do have a lot to cover. The agenda is meant as a guideline for the discussion, and we will follow it as closely as possible while still remaining flexible.
If you have any questions, please contact one of us (below). We look forward to seeing you (or hearing from you) on Thursday at 9am.
Sincerely,
Karen Beardsley, PhD, GISP
Managing Director, Information Center for the Environment (ICE)
Department of Environmental Science and Policy
One Shields Avenue
University of California
Davis, CA 95616
Ph: (530) 752-5678
Fax: (530) 752-3350
Cell: (530) 848-3310
kbeardsley@ucdavis.edu
ESRI’s new Small Government Departmental Platform Agreement allows for unlimited deployments of core ArcGIS software within one governmental department. Departments that have plans to integrate GIS in multiple workflows, such as assessors, health and human services, public works, fire, and planning departments, can use this program to rapidly achieve their goals.
This program is ideal for departments that want to:
The Small Government Departmental Platform Agreement program is open to all governments in the United States with populations of 100,000 or less. For more information, call ESRI at 800-447-9778.
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