NYS GIS Association News
2019 Undergraduate Geospatial Technology Skills Competition
The GeoTech Center is pleased to announce the 2019 Undergraduate Geospatial Technology Skills Competition! The intent of the competition is to showcase the geospatial technology skills of U.S. undergraduate students. Competing students will create a project that...
NYC School of Data 2019 (Mar 2)
BetaNYC invites you to join them on Saturday March 2 for NYC School of Data — a community conference that demystifies the policies and practices around civic data, technology, and service design. This year’s conference kicks off NYC’s annual Open Data Week and...
Digital Agriculture Continues to Evolve in New York State
The latest post from NYS GIS Association member Sam Wear, "Digital Agriculture Continues to Evolve in New York State", is available on his website eSpatially New York. You can also follow Sam on Twitter @eSpatiallyNY
Members in the News: Frank Winters!
The NYS GIS Association’s Communications Committee is pleased to bring you another installment of Members in the News! MEMBERS IN THE NEWS! At a live podcast recording of StateScoop Radio’s GIS Addressed podcast at the National States Geographic Information Council’s...
Building Next-Generation Mapping Applications with Open Source Spatial Tools Webinar (Feb 6)
The New York State GIS Association invites you to attend an upcoming webinar “Building Next-Generation Mapping Applications with Open Source Spatial Tools” presented by Chris Whong on Wednesday February 6, 2019. Mr. Whong is an urbanist, mapmaker, data junkie, and...
Mapping Hard to Count Communities for a Fair and Accurate 2020 Census Webinar (Jan 30)
The New York State GIS Association invites you to attend an upcoming webinar “Mapping Hard to Count Communities for a Fair and Accurate 2020 Census” presented by Steven Romalewski on Wednesday January 30, 2019. Mr. Romalewski directs the Mapping Service at the Center...
Cool New GIS Tools and Data Webinar NOW AVAILABLE on YouTube!
The NYS GIS Association is pleased to announce that the Dec 18, 2018 webinar "Cool New GIS Tools and Data from the NYS GIS Program Office" as part of the 2018-2019 Webinar Series is available to view on our YouTube channel! Title: Cool New GIS Tools and Data from the...
Upcoming NYS GIS Association Webinars (Jan 23, Jan 30, Feb 6)
The New York State GIS Association invites you to attend our upcoming webinars! You have three chances over three weeks to attend a FREE webinar! Join us on Jan 23, Jan 30, and Feb 6! UPDATE: The Digging Into Census ACS Data webinar has been cancelled. Date:...
Geographic Information Gateway (Gateway) News: Effects of Government Shutdown, Current Status, A Fond Farewell and Some Metrics
Happy New Year! Hope you had a fantastic holiday season! Impact of the Government Shutdown As you may know, the Gateway provides geospatial information from a number of different sources: we host a large chunk of the data ourselves on the same cloud server that hosts...
Announcement of 2019 NYSGPO Collection in New York State
The New York state GIS Program Office (NYSGPO) is pleased to share news that we plan to collect Quality Level 2 LiDAR data that will cover all or parts of three counties (Erie, Genesee, and Livingston) in NY, replacing three LIDAR-derived datasets. This project is...
Open Source GIS
- MovingPandas is moving to Codeberg 09/14/2026
- MovingPandas 0.23 released! 08/09/2026
- New Open Basemaps for Austria 07/26/2026