Enabling the California geospatial community
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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Here is the agenda for the December 10, 2020 quarterly meeting of the Council. In order to join the meeting you must register at this link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3399827802281983500 Don’t wait, register now! You will receive an email with a link to join…
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Join us on Tuesday, December 15 at 11:30 a.m. to learn about the new Digital Atlas of California Native Americans on the website of the California Native American Heritage Commission http://nahc.ca.gov/cp/. Created at the California Department of Parks & Recreation…
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All in the California GIS community of practice are welcome to join the quarterly meeting of the California GIS Council on December 10, 2020, 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon. Agenda and meeting items will be posted on the Council website…
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Executive Committee Election Results Announcement for theOctober 2020-September 2021 Term The California GIS Council is pleased to announce the uncontested slate for the new term of the Executive Committee. Nominations were received and accepted for the following stakeholder constituencies as…
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The California Geographic Alliance, an organization that promotes geography and geospatial technology education in K-12 schools in California, has posted the list of winners of the 2020 My California GIS Mapping Competition. The first place award for grades 4-8 goes…
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