GIS Intern – City of La Habra
GIS Associate Analyst – City of Carlsbad
GIS Manager I & GIS Manager II – Los Angeles County
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History of Cartography Competition
Students of the history of cartography are invited to submit papers for the 2020 Ristow Prize competition. Undergraduate, graduate, and first-year postdoctoral students of any nationality are eligible to compete. Papers must be in English, not exceeding 7500 words, and should be submitted digitally as a PDF document to kaparker18th@gmail.com by 1 June 2020. Appropriate illustrations, especially maps, are encouraged. The winning essay will receive a cash prize of $1000 and will be published in The Portolan, the journal of the Washington Map Society. The prize, named in honor of the late Dr. Walter W. Ristow, is sponsored by the Washington Map Society of Washington, D. C. For more information, including a list of previous winners, go to the website www.WashMapSociety.org or contact Dr. Katherine Parker at kaparker18th@gmail.com.
The Living Atlas of the World
ESRI’s ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World can be described as an evolving collection of authoritative, curated, read-to-use global geographic information curated by ESRI and the GIS user community. It includes imagery, basemaps, demographics and lifestyle, landscape, boundaries and places, transportation, earth observations, urban systems, oceans, and historical maps, all of which can be combined with your own data.
Most can be used without signing in, but you will need an ArcGIS Online account for the more interesting ones. Here are a few I found that were interesting. Continue reading
ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud
There are some ArcGIS users that export their maps to an Adobe format so a graphic artist can finish it up. Now inside Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator you can import data-driven maps with ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud. Check out the video below and read the Seattle Times case study.
Reminds me of my digitizing days!
Map Making in the Good Old Days
If you have been making maps for a long time, then you remember ink on mylar, Leroy lettering sets, and adhesive-backed screentones like Zip-A-Tone and Letraset.
Now replaced with computer techniques, check out these five production processes in map making that are no longer in use.
Local GIS Jobs This Week
Geographer (GIS Coordinator) – US Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District
GIS Business Analyst – Bakersfield area
Instructional Designer – ESRI, Redlands
CalGIS 2020 Registration Now Open
Registration for the CalGIS 2020 conference in Long Beach next year is now open. Check out their website and register today!
