NYS GIS Association News
2020 Application/Dashboard Winner: Erie County Office of GIS
Erie County Office of GIS | COVID-19 Application/Dashboard Award The Erie County GIS Team came together to design one of the first live COVID-19 dashboards in NYS. Their dashboard went live on March 19th, 2020 and County Executive Mark Poloncarz showcased it at his...
Happy GIS Day!
Happy GIS Day! Take a moment to recharge your GIS battery: CUNY College of Staten Island: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdrpgKrJWO4fs52zDdVa0nyP6mpJMjSX01ghCbwwbbHClHnQ/viewform GeoTech Center: https://geotech-virtual-gis-day-kctcs.hub.arcgis.com/ NYS...
2020 GIS Champion: Gretchen Culp, Ph.D.
Gretchen Culp, Ph.D. | 2020 Fight Against COVID-19 GIS Champion Award Dr. Gretchen Culp is an essential member of the Surveillance and Epidemiology Branch of COVID-19 response within the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Using her mapping skills, Dr....
Upcoming Professional Development Events!! ALERT!!
The Professional Development Committee will be celebrating GIS Day with two events this November. November 13, 2020, at 12:30 pm: Lunchtime Lightning Talk by Tao Tang from the University of Buffalo titled "Surface moisture monitoring and mapping in a vineyard in Erie...
Update to 2015 Webinar Posted
One of our webinar presenters from 2015 has updated his work on the Stillwater Reservoir in the western Adirondacks: Nathan Vary, an electrical engineer for the FAA working in their Wide Area Augmentation System (WASS) department out of Atlantic City, NJ has taken on...
Thanks for attending! Virtual Annual Mtg is a Wrap!
Although we would have preferred to be together at our usual venue for the Geospatial Summit, our Board successfully brought us together virtually. We were separated by space but still invigorated by our colleagues and our shared enthusiasm for each others' innovative...
Professional Development Opportunity
The Professional Development Committee is hosting monthly webinars on GIS & Drones, Predictive Modeling, Remote Sensing & LiDAR, and GIS for Kids. The first webinar is scheduled for 13 November! Click the link below to learn more and participate....
eSpatially – D.I.Y MS4: Erie County
The latest post from NYS GIS Association member Sam Wear, “D.I.Y MS4: Erie County”, posted September 30, 2020, is available on his website eSpatially New York. "Built in ArcGIS Online with Web AppBuilder the Coalition-wide MS4 application includes over 2,237 miles of...
Regional Committee Video on Use of GIS for COVID Operations Now Available
On August 19th the Regional Committee of the NYS GIS Association organized a webinar to highlight the use of GIS for COVID related operations. The webinar focused on the use of geocoded, precision location data to map and analyze COVID positive cases and contact...
Draft NSDI Strategic Plan Released for Public Comment
NEW Draft NSDI Strategic Plan Released for Public Comment (August 27, 2020) The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is seeking public comment on the draft strategic plan for the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). Comments are due by September 17, 2020....
News from GIS Lounge
- Acequias in the Southwest U.S. 04/27/2024
- Latitude and Longitude 04/27/2024
- Tracking Penguin Colonies Through Their Droppings 04/25/2024
Open Source GIS
- QGIS Server — Docker edition 04/20/2024
- Getting started with pygeoapi processes 03/18/2024
- Trajectools 2.0 released 🎉 02/24/2024