Thank you everyone who attended our Council meeting on March 10th. Here are the meeting notes:
Council business
Approval of Strategic Planning Charter (attached here): Strategic Plan Work Group Charter – Approved (March 10, 2016)
Scott Martin of the Geodesic Control Working Group has requested Council review and approval of the attached SDI Report Card. Please review the report card document (California SDI Report Card 3-30-15 draft watermark) – and provide feedback to Scott at scott.martin@dot.ca.gov
Upcoming Council Meetings (2nd Thursday of every 3rd month, 10-noon)
- 2016 – June 9th, September 8th, December 8th
- 2017 – March 9th, 2017, June 8th 2017, September 7th, December 7th
Data and application Links
- Planet Labs Open California imagery dataset: https://www.planet.com/open-california
- Central Valley Subsidence and Drought indicators: http://ca.water.usgs.gov/land_subsidence/central-valley-subsidence-data.html
- Link to the information about the NHDPlus Workshop:www.cwemf.org/workshops/nhdpluswrkshp.htm
- Link to information on the CalGIS Student Competition: http://www.urisa.org/clientuploads/directory/Documents/Conferences/CalGIS/CalGIS_2016_StudentCompetition.pdf
- Link to download the Prototype 2020 Census Blocks for California (we are st06.zip): http://www2.census.gov/geo/pvs/bbsp/
Upcoming Conferences
FOSS4G North America: https://2016.foss4g-na.org/ May 2-5 in Raleigh, NC. This is a conference for open source geospatial software. It’s really a great opportunity to learn about software and even to get experience and training with tools – the first day is all workshops on popular software like QGIS and Postgresql/PostGIS and skills like webmapping.