NYS GIS Association News
2020 GIS Champion: Frank Winters
Frank Winters | 2020 Fight Against COVID-19 GIS Champion Award Frank Winters has been a strong advocate for the use of GIS to support COVID operations. He has succeeded in having the NYS Geocoder used for complaints about large, unsafe gatherings of individuals and...
eSpatially – Geospatial Student Spotlight: Christopher Plummer
The latest post from NYS GIS Association member Sam Wear, “Geospatial Student Spotlight: Christopher Plummer”, posted December 9, 2020, is available on his website eSpatially New York. "Plummer’s overall research goal was to use thermal imaging drones to perform...
NYS GIS Association Election Results !!!
NYS GIS Association Election Results Congratulations to President-elect Karyn Senneff Tareen (Geocove, Inc.) and new Directors to the Board, Stephanie Rockwell (NYS Canal Corporation) and Jiin Wen (NYC Economic Development Corporation). Here's to a good year!
2020 Application/Dashboard Winner: Rockland County Planning Department
Rockland County Planning Department | COVID-19 Application/Dashboard Award Rockland County developed and launched a COVID-19 HUB along with various related dashboards: Rockland County COVID-19 Dashboard, Rockland Unpause Dashboard, Rockland’s Early Warning Dashboard....
2020 GIS Champion: Doug Schuetz
Doug Schuetz | 2020 Fight Against COVID-19 GIS Champion Award Doug Schuetz worked with the Health Department and his GIS team to not only build useful public dashboards to track COVID, but also set up a geocoding application. Based on county and state SAM data, this...
2020 Application/Dashboard Winner: New York University
New York University | COVID-19 Application/Dashboard Award This project describes a unique dataset of 5,065 records documenting the behavior of 6,075 individuals around 19 hospitals and urgent care clinics across four of New York’s five boroughs at the height of the...
2020 GIS Champion: Richard Reichert
Richard Reichert | 2020 Fight Against COVID-19 GIS Champion Award Rick Reichert was instrumental in creating and maintaining Oneida County’s COVID-19 status dashboard. The dashboard includes mapping that traces the statewide spread of the pandemic as well as detailing...
eSpatially – MGRS Mapper: Software for Military Operations Mapping
The latest post from NYS GIS Association member Sam Wear, “MGRS Mapper: Software for Military Operations Mapping”, posted November 24, 2020, is available on his website eSpatially New York. "Developed entirely with JavaScript the application enables users to easily...
2020 Application/Dashboard Winner: Livingston County Planning Department
Livingston County Planning Departement | COVID-19 Application/Dashboard Award Livingston County rolled out their first two ArcGIS Online web application in the Spring of 2020 just as COVID-19 was entering New York State. Taking the forward progress already initiated...
2020 GIS Champion: Alan Leidner
Alan Leidner | 2020 Fight Against COVID-19 GIS Champion Award Alan Leidner was instrumental in organizing the “Use of Precision Location Data for COVID Operations” Webinar on August 19th which explored the uses and benefits of precision mapping for contact tracing,...