Annotated Agenda – 3/11/2021 Council Meeting
Some notes and links have been added to the posted agenda.
Enabling the California geospatial community
Some notes and links have been added to the posted agenda.
NMCorps Mapping Challenges continue on the Pacific coast with a new challenge for schools in California and Nevada! This is an excellent challenge for Peer Reviewers and Advanced Editors since all the existing points have already been edited, but there are many points needing to be reviewed. Don’t forget to look…
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The Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) is tasked with tracking and permitting the transportation of hazardous waste throughout the state of California but has historically struggled with a more real-time view into that data. Roger Cleaves, IT Specialist, will…
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The National Map – Applications The National Map’s applications are now hosted at apps.nationalmap.gov. To help facilitate this transition, traffic to viewer.nationalmap.gov is automatically redirecting to the new application URLs. We encourage you to update any bookmarks you have for…
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Please register to attend the next quarterly meeting of the California GIS Council by filling out the form at this link. After you submit the form, the confirmation message will provide the Teams meeting connection information. Copy and paste that…
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Dear colleagues, The USGS National Geospatial Program is again updating the US Interagency Elevation Inventory. We invite you to provide us information so that your data is discoverable by others. Your data need not be in the public domain, and the…
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TNMCorps Mapping Challenges continue along the Pacific Coast with a challenge for fire stations in California, Nevada, and Arizona! We speculate many are still missing and the green dots show data points that need validation. Please note there are numerous…
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Read all about GIS-related action in California’s Legislature! Jacob Mark, the Chair of our newly-forming Policy Advisory Workgroup, prepared a listing and quick synopsis of some bills active in the 2021-22 Regular session which convened on December 7, 2020. Read…
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A new challenge has been launched. It focuses on city halls in California and Nevada. See the link below for details. https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/ngp/tnm-corps/mapping-challenges?qt-science_support_page_related_con=3#qt-science_support_page_related_con Please don’t forget that other US Topo map features can also be updated through the National Map Corps…
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Greetings of the season from the California GIS Council! Meeting notes from the Council meeting are posted at this link. The webinar on the Digital Atlas of California Native Americans that happened on 12/15/2020 was not recorded, but a video…
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