Enabling the California geospatial community
The California Geographic Information Association (CGIA) hosted a webinar on March 3 featuring Tamar Foster, Deputy Executive Director of the Little Hoover Commission presenting on the report “Mapping a Strategy for GIS.” A recording of that webinar is available at…
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Please join us for the next quarterly meeting of the California GIS Council to be held on March 12 at 10 a.m. to 12 noon. The in-person meeting will be at the Department of Water Resources Bonderson Building, 901 P…
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The California Geographic Information Association – which generously hosts this GIS Council website – presents a series of web talks on “The Role of GIS in Organizations and Strategic Planning” They are open to all; pre-registration is required. All Brown…
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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…
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Please save the date for the next quarterly California GIS Council meeting taking place on March 12, 2020, 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon. The physical location will be the Department of Water Resources’ Bonderson Building, 901 P Street, Sacramento, CA…
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The State of California Department of Technology is accepting applications for an Information Technology Manager II who will serve as the State of California Geographic Information Officer (GIO) and Manager of Data and Geospatial Services. The final filing date is…
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As many of you may have heard, there is a substantial effort to move towards completing statewide lidar coverage. To support this move, I’ve put together a very quick survey that is targeted at getting just a little bit more…
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Governor Gavin Newsom has announced the appointment of Joy Bonaguro as the Chief Data Officer. The following is from the Governor’s Office website https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/01/30/governor-newsom-announces-appointments-1-30-20/ “Joy Bonaguro, 39, of Oakland, has been appointed chief data officer at the California Government Operations Agency. Bonaguro…
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California Emergency GIS ArcGIS Online Group (Isaac Cabrera) California Emergency GIS ArcGIS Online Group: https://arcg.is/1fyaCv (Please feel free to join!) Enables State, Counties, Cities and private to work and share authoritative data. 27 out of 58 Counties involved, we are…
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The agenda and web/phone connection information for the December 12, 2019 GIS Council meeting is available at this link: https://cgia.org/cagiscouncil/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CA_GIS_Council_Meeting_Agenda_20191212.pdf If you are attending remotely please sign the attendance sheet at this link. Please join us as we welcome Amy Tong, Chief Information Officer…
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