URISA has just released the second edition of The GIS Management Handbook. This is a major revision of the 2009 book. The book has been expanded and updated and comes with a valuable set of supplemental digital materials. Click to the right for more info and to read an overview of the book.
OK, this might not be the ultimate Christmas gift for some, however if your loved one loves maps and globes … and LEGOs, then this is the ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS GIFT!!!!
You need to get them a LEGO Globe kit! Even the stand for the globe is made of LEGOs! It’s a piece of art for display and geography purposes! There is no excuse! And you can get the globe in different color schemes. It’s not cheap, expect to spend over $800 … your loved one is worth it! Check it out. Only 19 shopping days left before Christmas! 😮
ESRI announced that it has partnered with 3DR, a leading US drone data company, to expand ESRI’s current drone imagery offering, Drone2Map for ArcGIS, with an end-to-end enterprise drone data and analytics solution for ESRI’s ArcGIS platform. Click below to read more.
Looking for that perfect Christmas gift for a map aficionado? Check out these ideas in the 2019 Holiday Gift Guide.
Click below to check out data and maps about individual meal items you find during Thanksgiving dinner. Have a happy Thanksgiving!
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.
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
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!
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.
Registration for the CalGIS 2020 conference in Long Beach next year is now open. Check out their website and register today!
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