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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.

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 Ca...

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 includ...

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 fo...

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.

  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: Style Crust Cheese Sauce    Toppings Sold by Slices Cut Oven Check it out and help him in collecting data or know about pizza more. http://www.geographyofpizza.com/