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| A Screenshot of the Atlas of New South Wales |
How do you provide a more transparent and open government, an educational resource while utilizing emerging technology? The New South Wales government decided to develop an online atlas that includes Economic, Election, Environment, History and Demographic related information. Click here to check out this savy and information rich GIS application that uses Bing as its basemap!
Get the most out of the free web mapping platform and it’s new capabilities by attending this free webinar August 18th!
Here’s the link: http://training.esri.com/Gateway/index.cfm?fa=seminars.gateway
We are happy to announce that the Outside the Neatline blog has a new look! The newly relaunched Outside the Neatline blog features more options for sharing posts (including Google +, Facebook, Twitter, and e-mail), offers a new mobile optimized version of the blog, and pages are loading even faster than in the previous design.
Check out the new design and let us know what you think!
I stumbled upon AggData today accidentally while looking at some neat-o-maps of Starbucks Vs Dunkin Donuts locations by Numbers Run. I was looking for the data source used and followed it to a pretty slick home page.
At the AggData home page you can find location data for just about any business or public facility. Some data is free, some isn’t. The data you have to pay for comes at a modest price and would honestly be worth it if your crunched for time.
An example of the fields provided in their CSV files follows:
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Westchester County’s GIS Newsletter – 2011 Spring Edition is now available online.
The newsletter can be downloaded from the county’s GIS homepage at http://giswww.westchestergov.com.
This edition includes articles on topics such as:
We are pleased to announce that a NOAA Coastal Services Center (CSC) geospatial training short course on Coastal Inundation Mapping will be taught in southeastern CT this summer.
Matt Pendleton and Billy Brooks, trainers from the NOAA Coastal Services Center, will be teaching CSC’s regular 2-day “Coastal Inundation Mapping” course on July 6 and 7 at the University of Connecticut/Avery Point campus. This hands-on course will provide an introduction to coastal inundation issues and coastal inundation mapping techniques. The course is a combination of lectures and exercises that allow attendees to gain a better understanding of the following topics:
Please see http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/training/inundationmap.html for a complete course description. Please note that a working knowledge of ArcGIS is required (version 9.3 will be used for this course).
The course will be offered at NO COST (although there will be a $30 advance fee to cover refreshments and lunches) and enrollment is limited to a max of 24 people. People eligible to attend should work for a not-for-profit organization; municipal, regional, state or federal government; or academia and should have an interest or responsibility in coastal resource management or planning. See attachment for more information.
If you or others are interested in registering for this course, please contact Cary Chadwick at 860-345-5216 or cary.chadwick@uconn.edu. Please note that registration requires an advance payment of $30 to cover the cost of refreshments and lunches. Checks can be made out to the University of Connecticut and mailed to the address below:
Middlesex County Extension Center
1066 Saybrook Road, PO Box 70
Haddam, CT 06441-0070
Attn: Cary Chadwick
This course offering is made possible by the support of the University of Connecticut/Avery Point and the Center for Land Use Education and Research (CLEAR) at the University of Connecticut.
The New England Section of ACSM (American Congress on Surveying and Mapping) is hosting a day-long short course on Map Projections on June 3 from 9am-4pm at UConn Storrs. Cost is $50 for members and $60 for non-members.
Additional details and to register for this day long course click here.
NEURISA is hosting “Ignite Spatial Hartford” an exciting event that will showcase talks on “anything spatial” in a lightning talk format. This event is being held on June 22, 2011 at 10:00am at 260 Constitution Plaza Conference Room in Downtown Hartford. Additional details on this event are available at the NEURISA events website.
The Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis, together with metaLAB@Harvard, is cosponsoring the 2011 spring conference on *Geospatial Collaboration: New Common Ground*. This two-day conference is open to all. It brings web-mapping experts from across the country to share their knowledge and experience, and to envision what lies ahead in the dazzling field of mapping on the Internet. Speakers will introduce ideas, systems, tools, and visions, and present case studies and discuss challenges. Some will offer live demos and hands-on training. This conference provides a forum for geospatial technologists, developers, academics and end users to engage in dialog and help shape the future of geospatial technology.
Date: May 6-7, 2011
Time: 8:30am – 5:30pm
Location: Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, Concourse Level, S010
Address: 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138 For registration and further information, please visit http://gis.harvard.edu/conference
Are you a tech-friendly undergraduate? If so, we are conducting a survey to find out what technologies you use and prefer. Taking the short survey could net you a $50 gift certificate to the Co-op!