Green Map System will be demonstrating the OpenGreenMap.org participatory website-in-progress and sharing the potential of this new new tool for inclusive participation in sustainable community development. Presenters include Thomas Turnbull, lead developer (using Drupal, Google Map and more), Carlos Martinez, Latin America Coordinator (managing interface translations and social network outreach) and Wendy Brawer, founding director. … Read more
NYC Office of Emergency ManagementGeographic Information System (GIS) Unit Position: GIS InternThe GIS unit seeks a self-motivated intern to carry out activitiesrelating to application and web map programming, map production, anddatabase design. Familiarity with programming language such as C# orJava is required. Also knowledge of GIS software packages such asArcMap is preferred. ResponsibilitiesGeneral:
Thanks to GISMO member & project contributor John Emerson for bringing An Atlas of Radical Cartography to our attention. September
Dom Elefante and Eric Yadlovski of the New Jersey Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute (MERI) will present a functional overview of ERIS, a customized Emergency Response GIS Tool that integrates critical information from easily-queried, right-to-know databases, developed under a regional initiative to share GIS resources among local governments. ERIS data is displayed using available online mapping … Read more
Date: May 22, 2008Time: 9:00 AM
Steve Romalewski (CUNY Mapping Service) Michael Ufer (dev408) and Herb Stratton’s (NYC Dept of Finance) presentation on “Handheld mapping and data connectivity for NYC Dept of Finance” is now available for download: handheld_presentation_to_GISMO_11-14-07.pdf And for fun, David LaShell presented ESRI’s very own robot, SARA. SARA was created for ESRI by Penobscot Bay Media. Their Robotic … Read more
Ken Reid recommends two New Jersey GIS resources: New Jersey Geospatial Forum (NJGF) and NJMunicipalGIS at yahoogroups as GIS resource for NJ. NJGF is an umbrella organization for NJ and NJMunicipalGIS has over 160 members. https://njgin.state.nj.us/OIT_NJGF/njgf_organization.jsp http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/NJMunicipalGIS/?yguid=89749886
November 14 is GIS Day. GISMO will be holding its General Meeting on Nov 14 at the Fund for the City of New York. Some other events of note: The NYS Dept of Health & Mental Hygiene is offering a map gallery and workshop125 Worth Street(212) 788-2221 New Jersey Institute of Technology plans panel discussions … Read more
The next GISMO General Meeting will be held on Wednesday, Sept 19, 2007 at the Fund for the City of New York, 121 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY. For details, please visit the GISMO website.
The 2007 North East Map Organization (NEMO) Map Design Awards have been annouced. The competition has been established both to honor mapmakers in the Northeast and to promote map making and best practices. Categories have been established to honor professional and amateur mapmakers and those in high school, undergraduate and graduate programs. Groups composed of … Read more
