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NorthBay GIS is hosting the North Bay’s largest annual GIS Day at Santa Rosa’s Finley Center, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. on November 19!!  The event features exhibits, maps, posters, presentations, […]

Discovering the World Through GIS November 19, 2014 5PM-8:30PM UC Berkeley, Mulford Hall GIS Day 2014 will be held at UC Berkeley’s Mulford Hall,. This year’s event is co-hosted by the

Come and Celebrate… Sponsored by: City of Merced and Central Cal URISA Wednesday, November 19, 2014 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Sam Pipes Room, Merced Civic Center 678 W. 18th

URISA, a national organization, recently recommended that the Federal Government add an eighth framework data theme to the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI).  This would, if adopted, cause a federal agency

I wanted to pass this along, since it is a change on how the federal government is funding LIDAR acquisition. Thanks to Matt Artz for this information.  Click here to see his

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CGIA is pleased to announce the elections results for the 2014/2105 Board of Directors: City Representative: Chris Greene County Representative: Mark Greninger Regional Government Representative: Steven Steinberg State Government Representative:

CGIA has released an online map showing GIS contacts, websites, collaborative, and networking information for Counties in the State of California. Click on a County for contact information, including a link to

CGIA elections for the Board are now open.  We have received a number of highly qualified nominations, and we invite CGIA members, or those who will become members, to vote on

Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom brought his technology and institutional change message to the Resources Building Auditorium on Monday, May 12 as a guest of the DWR Enterprise Geographic Information Systems

Hello, I recently was able to correct an error with our back-end emailing platform, so started receiving notifications when we got new registrants – which turns out to have a lot

Each year the four URISA chapters in California, along with the California Geographic Information Association, come together to present the California GIS Conference.  This year, the  conference will celebrate the

CGIA recently sponsored the 4th Annual LA Geospatial Summit (click here for the program), organized by USC and hosted at the Japanese American National Museum.  It was a great event,

The CalGIS Conference is one month away!  April 14-16 in beautiful Monterey, CA.  If you haven’t  registered now is the time.  We have great presentations, workshops and sponsors.  Don’t miss

You’re invited ……. to the fourth annual CGIA GeoSummit at UC Merced on Friday, March 14th,8:30 am – 3:30 pm in the California Room.  As part of CGIA’s outreach initiative,

The CalGIS Conference is only two months away and it will be a great conference.  I encourage you to get registered for the conference soon.  We have some great sponsors

From Jeff Orton, CalGIS 2014 Chair:  “Nearly 600 of you have registered for these webinars since September.  California has a great geospatial community and I encourage you to share both the webinar and conference