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2024 CGIA Professional Development Series
2024 CGIA Professional Development Series
2024 CGIA Awards – Nominations are LIVE!
2024 CGIA Awards
Nominations are LIVE!

Exciting News: Nominations are Now Open for the California Geographic Information Association (CGIA) Awards Program, Celebrating 30 Years of Excellence!

Member Spotlight
Member Spotlight

Roland Martin is the Geospatial & Earth Observation Skills Leader for the Americas at Arup. He has 18 years of experience in geospatial and digital consulting. By trade he is a Spatial Data Engineer, but he has always valued versatility, and at different times in his career has built up experience with data collection, management, analysis, visualization, and automation.

Sustaining Member Spotlight
Sustaining Member Spotlight

Donna Miranda-Begay is a CGIA Board Member – Tribal Representative. Her Tribal affiliation is Tubatulabal, Paiute, Tule River Yokut, and Dine’. She is founder of the new non-profit CA Tribal GIS.

In working with both California Native American Tribes (federally and non-federally recognized) and State government, Donna recognized the need to have Tribal Lands on public government maps. She worked with several state Tribal Liaisons who often asked, “how can we better work with Tribes?”. Donna’s response would be “place tribal lands on your department maps...

CA SDI
CA SDI Map Now Available!
The California Geographic Information Association (CGIA) has launched an initiative to provide California with a comprehensive picture of our state's Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).

Use the map to see the availability of locally-produced and publicly-available authoritative spatial data sets organized by national SDI themes
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About CGIA

California Geographic Information Association (CGIA) is a non-profit, statewide association formed in 1994 to facilitate coordination, collaboration, and advocacy for California’s Geographic Information System (GIS) community. CGIA promotes the creation and maintenance of the best practices in the governance and application of geographic information within the State of California that can become a model for the nation.

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CGIA Annual Meeting 2024

Celebrating thirty years of CGIA – and looking ahead to the coming year As California Geographic Information Association (CGIA) celebrates its thirtieth anniversary, we are excited to prepare for this year’s Annual Meeting. You will hear updates from all of…

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Recent technical issues

You may have noticed some recent technical issues with the CGIA website and email lists. I wanted to write a short message to apologize and let you know that the Website Committee believes they should all be fixed now. As…

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Sustaining Members

Initiatives

CA SDI Map

CGIA has launched an initiative to provide California with a comprehensive picture of our state's Spatial Data Infrastructure

CGIA Awards

CGIA recognizes outstanding achievements in various aspects of geospatial technologies within California through its annual awards program, commemorating excellence in Geographic Information across the Golden State.

Events

CGIA hosts webinars, brown bag lunch series and general membership meetings.

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California GIS Contacts

View a map of GIS contacts throughout California. Perfect for networking!

Become a CGIA Member​

We are GIS professionals, students, educators and nonprofits. Join CGIA and gain access to job updates, networking events, annual awards programs, discounted conference registrations and more. As a CGIA member you have the opportunity to participate in the shaping of GIS industry standards, best practices and legislation affecting California and the nation.

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