Check out the new TopoView site. TopoView is intended to serve the immediate need for the older, conventionally printed topographic maps to become easily searched, viewed, and downloaded. The approximately 163,000 maps available through this interface were scanned by the USGS Historical Topographic Mapping Collection (HTMC) project.
CSU San Marcos is having a GIS Day on April 17, 2013. Students, staff, faculty, and community members are welcome. Free pizza provided! Come learn about how GIS is used by local and national organizations, such as the City of San Marcos and the U.S. Geological Survey, and here on campus, in your classes and for campus mapping. Find out more about careers which utilize GIS. After the event, join us for a campus-based geocaching adventure! Meet outside the front door of the Field House at 1:45.
CSUSM Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Clarke Field House 113
11:30-1:30
Questions? Contact Kim Knowles-Yanez, kyanez@csusm.edu
A campus map and address can be found here. Park in a guest spot in PS 1.
Driving directions to campus can be found here.
The flyer for this event can be found here, in case there is a place you are able to post it.
Totally non-GIS related! Today is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s from noon to 8 pm!
Do you have a great mobile app that you developed for your city? Then enter it in the AppMyCity! Prize. See http://appmycity.org/about/ for more info. The deadline is April 26, 2013, so you better hurry!
If you are into teaching GIS, check out this new site: TeachGIS.org.
Mark your calendars! Our next SoCalGIS meeting will be on May 9th, 2013 from 9am to 11:45 am at Culver City’s City Hall, 9700 Culver Blvd, Culver City, CA, in the City Council Chambers. Free underground parking.
Culver City will be hosting and showing us what they have been doing with GIS. There is also room for presentations by others, so if you want to present as well, just contact Michael Carson at mcarson@burbankca.gov or 818-238-5114.
Using a site that tracks dollar bills (Where’s George?), a theoretical physicist noticed that our state boundaries are rather arbitrary, but that money tends to stay within new, more realistic boundaries. Read the story here.
Our next SoCalGIS meeting will be hosted by the City of Culver City in May 2013. We will have a specific date and time soon.
If you would like to make a presentation at the meeting, please let me know so we can include you on the agenda. You can contact me, Michael Carson, GIS Manager, City of Burbank at mcarson@burbankca.gov or 818-238-5114. You can also use the SoCalGIS About page to leave a message as well.
The State of California has a new GeoPortal web site for access to geospatial data resources. Check it out at http://portal.gis.ca.gov .
The California Geological Survey (CGS) has developed a new online tool that allows you to search all of CGS’s Regulatory Maps, Landslide Maps, and Tsunami Maps. Also included are related reports and GIS data.
Regulatory Maps include:
Landslide Maps include:
Tsunami Maps include:
CGS will be adding more product to the warehouse. Visit their site at http://www.quake.ca.gov/gmaps/WH/index.htm .
