Enabling the California geospatial community
CGIA annually recognizes outstanding achievements in GIS within California through its awards program. You can nominate a colleague, project, or program for a CGIA award CGIA Nomination Page – http://cgia.org/about-cgia/cgia-awards-program/cgia-award-nominations/ Awards are open to any person in the State…
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This webinar (Thursday 3/7, 11am Pacific) may be of interest to many of you: https://geodesy.noaa.gov/web/science_edu/webinar_series/state-plane-coordinates-3.shtml There will be discussion of feedback received on the draft policy and procedures documents last year. One item to pay specific attention to is the…
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Please join the California GIS Council for its quarterly meeting on March 14th. The California Department of Conservation will be hosting the meeting for those that wish to join us in person at its headquarters. The agenda is linked below…
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The Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO) released the 2018 Report Card on the U.S. National Data Infrastructure. Using a letter grade, the report grades how well we as a Federal, state, regional, tribal, and local GIS community are doing at…
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Good morning, and I apologize for the long delay in posting these. Attached are PDF versions of the presentation materials from both Cy Smith, with the State of Oregon on their Geographic Information Council and Scott Martin with Caltrans on…
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I encourage everyone who can to join us either in person or by remote connection for December’s GIS Council Meeting. In addition to our regular work group updates, we will be joined by Cy Smith, the Oregon State GIO to…
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I am pleased to announce that with 65% of the cast votes Isaac Cabrera, GIS Administrator for Contra Costa County is our new vice chair. He’s already brought several great ideas to the table, and I look forward to working…
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Good Morning, Catching up on some post-meeting activities. First, a reminder that voting for the vice chair will be open until 5pm on Friday 9/28. Voting Information I’ve attached the presentation by Dan Henderson: Performance Measures Some links provided by Donna Begay…
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The California GIS Council is fortunate to the two highly qualified and very capable candidates for the position of vice chair. Whomever is selected will then continue in a year’s time into the position of chair for the 2019-20 year…
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A note from Scott Martin, California Geodetic Coordinator, Geodetic Controls & GPS Surveys, Office of Land Survey, California Department of Transportation. Because the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) will be rolling out a new geometric reference frame to replace NAD83 in…
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