Enabling the California geospatial community
Making Sense of COVID-19 Data through Geospatial Technology Hello Everyone, The novel COVID-19 pandemic has already profoundly impacted the world in ways that have not been seen for generations and the full effects have yet to be quantified. Geospatial Technology plays a…
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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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Dear colleagues, The 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) continues to utilize the NOAA sponsored Seasketch: U.S. Federal Mapping Coordination – A Demonstration Site for Federal Mapping Data Acquisition Coordination site for planning, coordinating partnerships, and tracking elevation data acquisition projects. The system supports the maintenance…
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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
This may not be news to many of you that make frequent use of census data, but it came as a surprise to me and to several other folks I’ve talked with. It raises the privacy vs accuracy debate in…
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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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