NYS GIS Association News

2020 GIS Champion:  Frank Winters

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...

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NYS GIS Association Election Results !!!

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!

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2020 GIS Champion:  Doug Schuetz

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...

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2020 Application/Dashboard Winner:  New York University

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...

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2020 GIS Champion:  Richard Reichert

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...

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2020 GIS Champion:  Alan Leidner

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,...

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