NYS GeoSpatial Summit website and online registration now open!

From Michael Crino: Hi Folks, Details on the upcoming NYS GeoSpatial Summit, to be held June 16th, 2011 at the Welch-Allyn Lodge in Skaneateles, NY are now posted on the Summit website at www.nygeosummit.org. Register online today to reserve your attendance at this very special event. Registrations will be limited to the first 200 people. … Read more

IA Institute – A New Framework

At the IA Institute Annual Members’ Meeting held in Denver on April 2, the Board of Directors presented a new framework for characterizing the relationships that the Institute will mediate going forward.  The framework came out of a board strategy meeting that I attended in Iceland back in February. Read more in the April newsletter … Read more

Mercator Society Lecture, April 26

Matt Knudson invites you to attend an upcoming lecture of the Mercator Society. http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2011/04/26/toward-national-cartography-american-mapmaking-1782-1800 For details and to RSVP, email Matt at or call him at 212-930-0562. Toward a National Cartography:American Mapmaking, 1782-1800Michael Buehler, of Boston Rare Maps, will address the development of mapmaking in the United States in the years immediately after the American … Read more

By the City/For the City Map Application

http://urbandesignweek.org/by-the-city/reports/submit By the City/For the City invites you to partipate in design for a better New York City. The Institute for Urban Design presents an application that maps ideas for the City submitted by individual website users. By the City/For the City is a “digital placemaking app” designed by PPS: Project for Public Spaces as … Read more