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| July 12, 2011 More from the 2011 Esri UCCommunityThe videos from the 2011 Esri UC Plenary session have now been posted online. The three part videos cover an overview of the use of GIS in understanding the world, the demo sessions showing the use of ArcGIS product line, and the keynote speakers: Jacqueline McGlade of the European Environment Agency, and Timothy and Michele Schilling of Rwanda’s ... read more July 11, 2011 GMES Masters CompetitionCommunityThe Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) has opened this year’s competition for the best new ideas and services for the best use of Earth observation data from Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security program. The competition is open to students, researchers, entrepreneurs, start-up companies and small and medium enterprises to develop new applications for ... read more  Following the 2011 Esri UCCommunityYou can follow the morning’s plenary proceedings and news from this year’s Esri User Conference from several sources. Straight from Esri, there are several ways to follow: Esri’s International User Conference blog, Esri’s UC Facebook Page, and the Esri UC twitter account. You can also follow any tweets relating to the Esri UC through the #EsriUC hashtag. Several ... read more July 7, 2011 Esri UC BackChannelCommunityThe unofficial Esri User Conference BackChannel is being run by DTSGIS. Among the offerings is a schedule app that allows you to sync your conference schedule with your smartphone. Participate in fun activities like the Photo Safari where points are offered for posting pictures of yourself taken with notable GIS (mostly Esri) people or well known ... read more June 21, 2011 FOSE 2011 Discount CodeCommunityFOSE 2011 is a three-day conference taking place in Washington D.C. that “serves the federal, state and local government technology market as well as the broader international and commercial technology community as a forum for bridging ideas and innovations between the public and private sector—and provides forward-looking view of upcoming federal IT initiatives that impact ... read more June 3, 2011June 2011 Geospatial Conferences and EventsCommunityGIS related conferences, events, and workshops during the month of June, 2011. Additional conference dates are available here. June 7 Event Title – Public Health Geographic Information Systems Online Certificate Webinar Location – Online Web site - http://www.uic.edu/sph/phgis/open-house.html Event Date - Tuesday, June 7, 2011 Event Time - 12 to 1 p.m. central time Contact - phgis@uic.edu | 312-355-0423 Description - Learn more about how an online certificate ... read more May 24, 2011 Networking in GIS: Peer-to-Peer Support in the GIS CommunityCommunity, FeaturesGIS is a diverse field, requiring expertise in a range of areas ranging from cartography, systems administration, relational database management, programming, and of course, spatial analysis. Even the well-versed GIS professional will come across many difficult tasks that require guidance from others in the field. Unfortunately, GIS professionals tend to work solo or in small ... read more May 14, 2011 Open Source GIS Introductory Course at FOSS4GCommunityThe organizers of FOSS4G are offering an introductory course on open source geospatial software on Tuesday, September 13th in Denver, Colorado. The full day offering offers insight on questions about the capabilities, support, and integrations with commercial cloud software. The target audience is users, developers, and managers who work in the geospatial field but aren’t ... read more April 25, 2011 Watch Where 2.0CommunityIf you weren’t able to attend this past week’s Where 2.0 in Santa Clara this year, you can still catch video of the conference online. O’Reilly Media has assembled 47 videos on YouTube covering talks and interviews. Featured speakers included DiAnn Eisnor of Waze, Jack Dangermond of Esri, Dennis Crowley of Foursquare, and Mihir Shah ... read more April 16, 2011 Profile of Michael GoodchildCommunityThe Chronicle of Higher Education has a profile on University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) professor Michael Goodchild called “Inventing the Science of Geographic Information Puts a Professor on the Map“. Mr. Goodchild cemented his place in geography in 1992, when he wrote a paper proposing the creation of geographic information science, the study of the ... read more |
