Call for Presentations

The Annual Missouri Mappers Conference will be held

July 23 - 26 at Tan-Tar-A Resort at

Osage Beach, MO.

Go to www.MissouriMappers.org to learn more about us!

We are changing our format up a bit and will hold even more workshops and break-out sessions this year! We are looking for presenters willing to do 30 or 45 minute presentations.

Examples of prior conference topics include: Property Assessment & Mapping (Pen & Ink or Digital), Emergency Management, Deed Interpretation, Mobile/GPS, topics concerning local governments and mapping.

This promises to be an awesome conference in a brand new location so come share with us!. Please contact the Conference Chair Lisa Perry at lisap@ecarthage.com for information and time slots.

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Free GIS and 911 Seminar

Mid-AmericaGIS Consortium (MAGIC) has teamed up with GeoComm, St. Clair IL, and WashingtonUniversity St. Louis to offer a FREE E911 and GIS Seminar in St. Louis, MO on May 29, 2013.

This workshop is for folks working on 911 system and GIS data. This seminar will help build the foundation for understanding requirements, roles, responsibilities, and standards for present 911 systems and NEXT GENERATION 911.

This one day seminar will cover:

·         911 and GIS today

·         Developing communication between 911 and GIS professionals

·         Where is 911 going and what are the new GIS functions?

·         NENA GIS model for public safety

·         Roadmap to future GIS requirements

Date and Location

May 29, 2013 (9:00 am-4:00pm), Washington University-West Campus

7425 Forsyth Blvd. St. Louis. MO 63105

Accommodations

Sheraton Clayton Plaza Hotel, St. Louis

Registration is FREE.

For more information, and to register:

http://www.magicgis.org/projects/addressing/E911workshop.cfm

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How to Use Boost Library 1.53 in Visual Studio 2012 Professional?

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First Image of Earth from LandSat 8

The LDCM/LandSat 8, which is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on February 11, 2013 is started   to send Earth’s picture to the ground from the space. This week, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) released its first images of Earth, collected at 1:40 p.m. EDT on March 18.LDCM is performing as planned and everything is on track for a May operational transition. LDCM is a joint mission of NASA and the Department of Interior's U.S. Geological Survey.

According to NASA website, LDCM’s first instrument, Operational Land Imager, or OLI instrument, that took the natural color image. The natural color image showed the landscape in the colors our eyes would see, but Landsat sensors also have the ability to see wavelengths of light that our eyes cannot see. LDCM sees eleven bands within the electromagnetic spectrum, the range of wavelengths of light. OLI collects light reflected from Earth's surface in nine of these bands. Wavelengths on the shorter side include the visible blue, green, and red bands. Wavelengths on the longer side include the near infrared and shortwave infrared. LDCM's second instrument, the Thermal InfraredSensor (TIRS) detects light emitted from the surface in two even longer wavelengths called the thermal infrared. The intensity of the emitted light at the longer wavelengths measured by TIRS is a function of surface temperature.

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Good Book for GIS Beginners : Book II

Understanding GIS: An ArcGIS Project Workbook, is a very user-friendly written book for those interested to begin using ESRI ArcGIS Desktop 10 or ArcGIS Desktop 10.1 using real data from the City of Los Angeles' Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering's Mapping Division, and Department of Recreation and Parks and to manipulate it using the power of GIS.

 Don't expect to become a GIS expert at the end because this is simply a good introduction to ArcGIS. The book guides the reader step-by-step, mouse-click-by mouse-click, decision-by-decision through a GIS project to determine for yourself which locations along the river are best suited for public recreational use in Los Angeles. At the end, you will have learned many of the fundamentals of GIS generally and ArcGIS specifically which aims at finding a suitable land parcel(s)for a new park area in Los Angeles .You use real data which comes in the companion DVD. When you reach the final stage in chapter 6 and follow all the careful steps to manually select the best areas and you learned why you do so, you discover in the following chapter (chapter 7) that you can do the same in a much quicker way by using a visual graphing tool, a marvel in my opinion of ArcGIS Desktop.

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GeoExt Layer Tree: Showing BaseLayers and Overlay Layer

I was looking for GeoExt's tree example for my project, and I found official tutorials are kind of hard to understand for the GeoExt beginners. On Googleing through the internet, I found nice and easy way of creating tree  structure menu using GeoExt BaseLayer and Overlay layer tree.

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Geography of Pizza : Trying to Explore VGI and Crowd Sourcing

 Mark Turgeon, a graduate student studying GIS at California State University is studying and analyzing regional pizza preferences, styles and identity as his MS thesis. To collect anonymous data about the regional pizza preferences he built up a nice survey website, geographyofpizza.com.


He classified pizzas by:

1. Style
2. Crust
3. Cheese
4. Sauce   
5. Toppings
6. Sold by
7. Slices Cut
8. Oven

Check it out and help him in collecting data or know about pizza more.

http://www.geographyofpizza.com/

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Geographic Information Science (GIS) Internships Summer 2013

Title	Location	Requirement	Click Link for Details
Summer 2013 Internship	Burlington, Vermont	GIS Mapping Project - This internship includes a stipend of $4,000 for 10 weeks work.	http://bit.ly/YLVVeU
GIS Intern	Anchorage, AK	-Knowledge of Esri ArcGIS software, GIS analysis, ---Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office suite.  Knowledge of AutoCAD/Microstation is a plus.	http://bit.ly/WZoXd4
GIS Intern	Oakland, CA	Currently enrolled as a junior or senior in Geography or related field. - Intermediate skills using Esri ArcGIS version 10 - Good written and communication skills.	http://bit.ly/12XpCkh
Intern - GIS  Summer	Madison,WI	-Demonstrated working knowledge of ESRI data formats and Microsoft Office products -Must have a minimum of one year undergraduate education in GIS, Cartography, or other related discipline and be currently enrolled in and actively working towards a degree	http://bit.ly/YrqA0o
Horticulture & GIS Interns	Missouri Botanical Garden, MO	Various Openings	http://bit.ly/UR5PiO
GIS Intern	Boston, MA	-College Graduate BA/BS  -Understanding of excel and economic modeling a plus.	http://bit.ly/XGCdU3
12-Week GIS Internship	National Park Service , Gatlinburg, TN	-Experience in geographic information systems (GIS), computer cartography a must, specifically experience using ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap/ArcCatalog). Experience with geodatabase formats is a plus.	http://bit.ly/WGinVq
GIS Intern	Arlington, TX	Skill in Arc GIS, Arc GIS editing environment and Geo-processing tools is essential.	http://bit.ly/WfgK2a
GIS Intern	Southlake, Texas	-Work requires knowledge of a specific vocational, administrative, or technical nature that may be obtained with advanced study or training past the high school equivalency.	http://bit.ly/Yi7PR9
Environmental Intern		-Proficiency with GIS software preferred. -Must be enrolled in a planning program in an accredited School of Planning	http://bit.ly/13aNvVk
Intern II	Philadelphia, PA	-Bachelors or Master’s degree complete or in progress -Experience with GIS, simple web design, and graphic design a plus	http://bit.ly/ZnxDu7
Wildfire Planning Intern	North Carolina	-Undergraduate or graduate program focusing on Environmental Studies, Biology, Forestry, or related field -Ability to perform physical work, sometime under adverse conditions or in inclement weather -Ability to make maps using GIS	http://bit.ly/YiaGcG
GIS Intern	Libertyville, Illinois	-Knowledge of geography as applied to concepts and principles of GIS, map projections and datums, coordinate systems and cartographic designs. -Ability to use GIS equipment, instruments and devices	http://bit.ly/XGK1VT
GIS Coordinator Intern	Sioux Falls,SD	-Working knowledge of ESRI and ArcGIS software -Knowledge of GPS or GPS/GIS data collection. -Knowledge in CAD and design software.	http://bit.ly/W8jtj2

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Call for Student Volunteers : FOSS4G-NA 2013

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial North America is calling for Student Volunteers to encourage student participation at FOSS4G-NA Conference 2013 at Marriott City Center, Minneapolis, MN May 22–24, 2013.

Apply by April 1, 2013 to select on random drawing.

As a volunteer, students will be able to participate in all of the conference activities such as  staffing the registration desk or being a room monitor for a session. You will get a complimentary registration to the conference, but you will still need to get yourself to Minneapolis and find lodging.

Applicants need to be a currently registered, full-time student at a college or university in North America. Volunteers may be asked to confirm their student status.To ensure volunteer opportunities are spread across institutions, only one person from each college or university will be selected until all institutions are represented by one student. For institutions with multiple campuses, each campus will be allowed one student.

Click below for more information:
http://foss4g-na.org/student-opportunities/

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Python Scripting for ArcGIS

Python Scripting for ArcGIS is a new text from Esri Press by Paul A. Zandbergen (2013). It isn’t the first Python book for the geospatial community or even focused on ArcGIS, but it is the first that has the Esri logo on it. Much like other recent books on Geo/Python we have seen, it focuses on integrating an introduction to Python with the industry specific materials. As Frank mentioned when he highlighted the book in a previous podcast, this allows users to gain exposure to Python, but it doesn’t fall back on the (in my opinion) bad habit of most programming texts of spending half of the book on the language and concepts before even getting to the application in the specific area. There is a time and place for that approach in Python specific books. When you add another software library to a book, then use it from the get go.

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