Author: whysel

The Nature Conservancy has produced a lovely hardcover Atlas of Global Conservation. An interactive version is available at http://www.nature.org/atlas/.

The NYCArc User Group is hosting a seminar on Friday 18 June. The full day session will take place at John Jay College – 899 Tenth Ave @ 59th Street.

Doors open at 8:00 am. The symposium will run until approximately 4:30pm. Please note that seats are on a first come first serve basis: you must confirm with Steve via email to nycarcuser@gmail.com

8:30AM John Jay College Welcome
Jack Dangermond, President, ESRI

GISMO is Back! Come Join Us for a Re-launch Meeting on Wednesday 6/30 from
3-5pm at the Fund for the City of NY
http://www.fcny.org/fcny/about/contact/

Elisabetta (Lis) DeGironimo, GISP & Bruce Oswald are traveling downstate to
present the benefits of formal association between GISMO & the NYS GIS
Association http://nysgis.org.

Steve Romalewski will provide an update on the CUNY Mapping Service
http://www.urbanresearch.org/about/cur-components/cuny-mapping-service

Pay on your own social to follow: 5:30pm at Antarctica Bar
http://www.antarcticabar.com/Directions.html

GISMO was founded in 1990 and was, in its’ heyday, the New York Metropolitan
Area’s largest geographic information systems (GIS) users’ group, with over 700
members from city, state and federal agencies, non-profit organizations and the
private sector.

GISMO continues to be a valued forum for sharing information on
well-established and emerging geospatial technologies along with news from GIS
publications, meetings, vendors as well as business, internship and software
training opportunities.

GISMO members range from students to savvy practitioners in & out of
government: all cite significant benefits over the years from the networking
promoted both virtually and in-person.

GISMO meetings will once again be scheduled bi-monthly beginning in July 2010.
We will generally gather at the Fund for the City of New York, with other venues
adopted depending on group size & nature of presentation(s)

www.nysgis.org

The new site will include improved organization, content and a members only that will provide members with reports on their participation in the organization to assist them in their GISP certification.

Visit the site and send any quesitons or feedback to: info@nysgis.org.

(via Wendy Brawer)

Dear friends at GISMO

Joining the mobile revolution, Green Map System has two new resources for green living – a mobile website and the first Green Map iPhone App!

Ideal for locals and tourists alike, both are free and feature the beta version of “What’s Green Nearby?

*The Summit is BACK!* *

*On May 18-19th the 2010 NYS GeoSpatial Summit will be held at the historic Otesaga Hotel overlooking beautiful Otsego Lake in Cooperstown. Sponsored by the NYS GIS Association and the NYS Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination, the event will be kicked off with a reception on the evening of the May 18th at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Enjoy the reception and talk one-on-one with geospatial leaders from New York State and beyond. In addition, take advantage of the setting to conduct a free tour of the Hall of Fame, and, later, stroll the shores of the pristinelake that James Fenimore Cooper featured in many of his novels and dubbed “Glimmerglass.”

The main event will occur on May 19th at the Otesaga Hotel and will feature speakers from the avant-garde of the geospatial industry. They include Steve Coast founder of OpenStreetMap, a collaborative map of the world and organizer of the Atlanta Mapathon; James Fee, GIS developer, analyst, consultant and founder of the provocative James Fee Blog; Nicholas Roy,a member of MIT

Check out the NYC BigApps Competition:

$20,000 cash prizes including lunch with Mayor Bloomberg.

http://www.nycbigapps.com/

The City of New York is improving the way it provides information and transparency to citizens. But delivering great information requires great tools. The NYC BigApps Competition will reward the developers of the most useful, inventive, appealing, effective, and commercially viable applications for delivering information from the City of New York’s NYC.gov Data Mine to interested users.

Amy Jeu sent me this announcement. If you love mapping and love mentoring kids, don’t miss this opportunity:

The Geographic Information Sciences (GIS) software company ESRI has partnered with National Geographic to recruit GIS professionals to mentor students. In true GIS form, they present a map of who is mentoring where. So far, no one has volunteered in NYC (as of Nov. 5). Participation is a great way to kick off GIS Day, which is November 18, just a few days away. Also, see details on Geography Awareness Week, which begins next week.

Please use the http://www.geomentor.org/ website to sign up for the GeoMentor program.

Map Preservation (literally)

Posted by: “Baruch” barry@droginconsult.com bdrogin
Date: Thu Oct 8, 2009 7:45 am ((PDT))

Volunteers needed to help preserve 1964 World’s Fair 130’x166′ terrazzo replica of Texaco New York State Road Map designed by Philip Johnson.

Please RSVP to Michelle Langlie (Michelle.Langlie@Parks.NYC.gov) if you wish to participate and forward to anyone you may think would be interested. Full details below.

Saturday, October 24th, 9a.m. – 4 p.m.

Designed by famed American architect Philip Johnson for the 1964 World’s Fair, the large-scale terrazzo art pavement was commissioned by Governor Nelson Rockefeller for the New York State Pavilion. Johnson’s Pavilion featured a complex of structures: a Theaterama building, three observation towers, and the “Tent of Tomorrow,” a 12-story open-air elliptical pavilion capped by the world’s largest suspended cable system roof fitted with colored acrylic panels. The “Tent of Tomorrow” became a symbol of the fair, and for its main floor, Johnson designed the largest-known representation of any area of the earth’s surface: a 130-foot by 166-foot terrazzo replica of a Texaco New York State road map.

Although the Fair buildings were intended as temporary, 1965 plans for creating Flushing Meadows-Corona Park identified the Pavilion for preservation and reuse. While the Theaterama was later successfully renovated as a community theater, the remaining complex is closed and derelict. Today the Tent is used for storage, and the Road Map is in an advanced state of deterioration from weathering, vandalism, and past inappropriate recreational uses.

We’re looking for volunteers to help out onsite on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24th, performing a range of activities from removal of invasive vegetation, to the careful and systematic collection and bagging of map fragments that have been dislodged from the floor of the Pavilion. Instruction would be given to the volunteers on how to go about collecting the fragments before any work would begin. We’re looking for volunteers who are responsible, pay close attention to detail, and can follow instructions. Given the historical nature of the work, a certain degree of sensitivity is required. Everyday more of the famous map disappears, making the proposed conservation work critical.

Volunteers should meet at the Olmsted Center (Flushing Meadows Corona Park) by 9 a.m. Preservation Alumni will provide lunch. All alumni, friends, family, co-workers and associates are welcome. There is a lot of work to be done and many volunteers are needed so please feel free to forward to others whom you think might be interested. Additional details will be sent out closer to the volunteer work day. Please visit www.conlab.org to read about previous work done at the site by the University of Pennsylvania and the related exhibition held at the Queens Museum.

If you are interested, please RSVP as soon as possible at Michelle.Langlie@Parks.NYC.gov or at 718.760.6677.