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Dear California GIS Professional: CalGIS 2015, the 21st Annual California GIS Conference, is happening June 1-3, 2015 at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Downtown Sacramento. www.calgis.org If you have never […]

An interesting use of Open Data (can’t wait for LA County’s Open Data Portal to go live in the next few months). Here’s the source article.  

From Our Friend Drew Decker at USGS. Attached is the November 2014 U.S. Geological Survey National Hydrography Dataset Newsletter. This marks the fourteenth year of the NHD Newsletter! You will

Join LA Geospatial for a post GIS Day meetup in Los Angeles at: Redwood Bar and Grill 316 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 5:00 PM -8:00 PM    

GIS Day is celebrated nationally as part of National Geography Awareness Week.  Click here for more information. LA County’s GIS Day is free to attend both for the public and

www.calgis.org CalGIS 2015- Join us in Sacramento! Just announced! CalGIS 2015 21st Annual California GIS Conference Dates: June 1-3, 2015 Venue: Sheraton Grand Sacramento Coming Soon: Call for Presentations Coming

Riverside County hosting a GIS Day event.  Nine different departments showcasing their work with GIS, and vendors representing their companies (Psomas, Picometry, ESRI and Source Graphics) will be with us. This year we

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