Enabling the California geospatial community
https://cgia.org/cagiscouncil/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/CA-GIS-Council-Meeting-Agenda-December-14th-2017Final3.pdf Reminder about tomorrow’s CA GIS Council meeting (10-12 am, 12/14/17). I am very excited to announce next week’s informative CA GIS Council agenda. The meeting will include a roundtable discussion of how GIS data was shared and used for analysis…
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Updated text of both the Senate and House versions of the Geospatial Data Act of 20017 are available at: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/2128 https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4395 Note that these are the November revisions to the bills not the original July versions under different bill numbers….
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Scott Martin, CADOT, and his CA GIS Geodetic Work Group have developed, a very exciting Geodetic work plan for your review. This cornerstone essential data layer will benefit us all. Please take a few minutes to review the document before…
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As part of an ongoing effort to improve performance and reliability for the suite of USGS Hydrography web-based map services, the USGS is migrating the National Hydrography Dataset and Watershed Boundary Dataset services to a Cloud location. National Hydrography Dataset…
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Many of The National Map dynamic overlay services have new schemas and updated cartography to provide a better user experience in The National Map viewer and other applications. The following changes were made throughout August and September 2017, when new…
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Good Afternoon, The California DWR Land Use Viewerhttps://gis.water.ca.gov/app/CADWRLandUseViewer is a valuable new tool developed by DWR that allows land use and water managers, including Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs), and the public to easily access and compare statewide and regional land use data in one place for…
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This is a reminder that the next meeting of the GIS Council will be September 14th at 10am-noon. Download the agenda: CA GIS Council Meeting Agenda (Sept 14th 2017)Final The Department of Water Resources is making a room available in their…
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Colleagues: The Geospatial Information and Technology Association (GITA) will be hosting a webinar by John Wertman of the Association of American Geographers on the Geospatial Data Act of 2017. The webinar will take place online on Tuesday, August 29, 2017…
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Dear Colleagues, The USGS National Geospatial Program is now updating the 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…
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CA GIS Council Vice-Chair 2017-2018 election results (21 total votes) Nate Roth: 21 votes Other: 0 votes Please join me in congratulating Nate for being selected as the incoming Vice-Chair of the California GIS Council! And thank you to all…
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