Enabling the California geospatial community
Geographic Data Specialist in the California Department of Water Resources since 2008. Presently serving as the Technical Lead for the California National Hydrography Stewardship Program. Board member of Northern California Chapter of URISA (Chapter President for 2016). GIS Certificate from American River College, 2009
This document was created by our Geodetic Control Workgroup Chair Scott Martin of the Caltrans Office of Land Surveys. Scott also serves as California Geodetic Coordinator. It is a quick read suitable for sharing with GIS colleagues and non-GIS staff…
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We have three candidates for the position of Vice Chair of this Council! The Vice Chair will serve from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021, and will serve as Chair from July 1, 2021 through June 20, 2022. Everyone…
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The Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO), a coalition of 13 national professional societies, trade associations, and membership organizations in the geospatial field, has sent a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees to express their…
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The next quarterly meeting of the California GIS Council takes place on the second Thursday in June at 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon. This will be an online-only meeting on the Microsoft Teams platform. The link and phone-in information will…
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The GIS Council needs to elect a Vice Chair to serve July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021, and then to serve as Chair for the July 2021 – June 2022 term. Since the current Vice Chair identifies with the…
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The California GIS Council is pleased to share the news that our Council Chair Carlos Isaac Cabrera has accepted the newly-created position with the California Department of Technology (CDT) as the State Geographic Information Officer and Manager of Data and…
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Passing along this from California Geographic Information Association (CGIA) President An-Min Wu: The CGIA Brown Bag Web Speaker Series will continue as planned on Tuesday, April 28 and Wednesday, May 13. For the April 28 webinar, while Tony LaVoi (GIO…
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Inventory Your Data Feeds for Health/Medical Capability Reporting Data The following information is copied from the website of the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS website: https://www.napsgfoundation.org/inventory-health-data-feeds/ On behalf of the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation (NAPSG), the…
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The agenda for the March 12, 2020 GIS Council meeting has been updated and is available at this link: https://cgia.org/cagiscouncil/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CA-GIS-Council-Quarterly-Meeting-Agenda-March12-2020-rev-.pdf
USDA NAIP 2018 aerial imagery (60cm resolution) for California is now publicly available through GIS-compatible services hosted by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW). Four different 2018 services are offered (4-band, natural color, CIR, and NDVI) and add…
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