NYS GIS Association News
2021 GIS Champion Award!!!!
Russell Urban-Mead led the crafting of a broad and complex technical scope of work involving multiple communities across New York State and then built a strong team of consultants with GIS and Planning expertise in support of the joint NYS Department of Environmental...
2021 Geospatial Application Award: Mapping NYC COVID-19 Community Transmission via Hospital Workers, Funded by New York University
Delphine Protopapas, Brooklyn Technical High School (left), Ron Alweiss, Ramaz High School (right) In the Spring of 2020, COVID-19 pandemic transformed New York City’s hospitals, with as many as 1,673 single-day, new admissions for COVID treatment and many more for...
2021 GIS Applications Award: terrain | Landscape Visualizations in R and Unity
Aidan Ackerman, Assistant Professor (left), Colin Beier, Associate Professor (middle), Michael Mahoney, Ph.D. Student (right) As geospatial analysis becomes increasingly important across fields, analysts are regularly expected to perform large-scale reproducible...
eSpatially – NYC H2O: Advocating Cleaner Water through StoryMaps
The latest post from NYS GIS Association member Sam Wear, “NYC H2O: Advocating Cleaner Water through StoryMaps", posted November 16, 2021, is available on his website eSpatially New York. "The city maintains 14 sewage treatment plants covering the five boroughs....
Fall Annual Meeting Recording Available!
Fall Annual Meeting Recording Available If you missed the NYS GIS Association's Fall Annual Meeting on September 21st, the recording is now available at: https://www.nysgis.net/activities/conferences/nys-gis-association-2021-annual-meeting/
October Newsletter is Available!
The NYS GIS Association October Newsletter is available! The Communications Committee sends the Newsletter to current members via email almost every month and posts a copy to the website. See what's new!
New A.A.S. degree in GIST!
Hi All! Wanted to share this with anyone looking to build on their educational background -- in addition to the new 9-credit micro-credential for those of us working in the field already, Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY now has an Associates in Applied...
Loss of Dr. Herrington, GIS Pioneer
The NYS GIS Association Mourns the Loss of Dr. Lee Herrington The NYS GIS Association mourns the loss of one of its pioneers, Dr. Lee Herrington. Dr. Herrington died on September 19th at the age of 88. His influence on the development of GIS in New York State cannot...
eSpatially – 10 Questions: Ken Stewart, NUAIR
The latest post from NYS GIS Association member Sam Wear, “10 Questions: Ken Stewart, NUAIR", posted October 13, 2021, is available on his website eSpatially New York. "NUAIR is a New York based nonprofit organization that provides expertise in unmanned aircraft...
Annual Meeting Minutes Available for Review
The draft of the minutes from the NYS GIS Association's Annual Meeting are now available for review! Take a moment to review them at: https://www.nysgis.net/activities/conferences/nys-gis-association-2021-annual-meeting/ They are available for review until Monday,...
Open Source GIS
- Notebooks in QGIS 01/10/2026
- QGIS to (Geo)Pandas – part 3 12/03/2025
- QGIS to (Geo)Pandas follow-up 10/31/2025