NYS GIS Association News
Catherine DuBreck Appointed to Board of Directors
Catherine DuBreck of EagleView Technologies has been appointed to the Board of Directors. She will complete President-Elect Karyn Tareen's term on the Board. Catherine is currently a member of the Communications Committee.
2020 Application/Dashboard Winner: Suffolk County GIS
Suffolk County GIS | COVID-19 Application/Dashboard Award Suffolk County GIS developed and launched both an internal and external COVID dashboard. With over 1.5 million hits to date, this dashboard is used by hundreds of municipal governments, non-profit...
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...
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Open Source GIS
- GTFS algorithms about to land in Trajectools 05/04/2024
- QGIS Server — Docker edition 04/20/2024
- Getting started with pygeoapi processes 03/18/2024