LIGIS Conference April 19, 2013 at Brookhaven National Labratory

2013 Conference on April 19, 2013 at Brookhaven National Lab in Berkner Hall (Bldg 488) Special Note: Please bring ID as you must sign in at the front gate and get a visitors pass. Agenda 9:00 – 9:45 Registration and Networking – Please sign in. 9:45 – 10:00 Introduction And…

Message from Alan Leidner – President, NYS GIS Association

Downstate GIS Leaders, Hello and Happy New Year. Some of you may not know that I was recently elected President of the NYS GIS Association. This email is to simply say hi and to encourage you to consider becoming more active in your State’s organization.…

Debris Management Map

During the early part of our clean-up efforts from Hurricane Sandy we realized the enormity of the event with regard to the amount of storm debris. We needed an easy way to get information to our residents and we needed this information to be publicly…

Election 2012

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LIGIS Sponsored Emergency Management Webinar Thursday, July 26th

To LIGIS members with public safety, emergency management and disaster response responsibilities. This is to invite you to a LIGIS sponsored Webinar set for Thursday, July 26th between 10:00am and 11:15am. The main speaker at the Webinar will be Alan Leidner who currently works for the…

Educational Webinar

Intermap Technologies and its partner, GIS Services, is hosting an educational webinar on Thursday, June 7th at 2pm MDT.…

Release of the free GIS Cloud Publisher extension for Esri ArcMap

GIS Cloud just released a free extension for Esri ArcMap which enables you to easily push your maps from desktop to GIS Cloud. This tool will publish maps together with their data and symbology making the end result look the same as in your desktop…

2012 LIGIS Conference Recap

On May 11th we held our annual conference at Brookhaven National Lab. We had four very informative sessions. Jim Daly from Suffolk County IT explained how their Suffolk iMap web mapping application has matured. He expressed that in the future they may move into a…

GIS in K-12 Education in New York

New York State has signed an agreement with Esri to provide GIS licenses for the K-12 environment. The New York State GIS Association is in the final stages of addressing the administrative details of this agreement which will run through July 31, 2014. Through this…

GIS User Blues

By: Thomas J. Marquardt, A.I.C.P. (member of LIGIS Steering Committee) Remember; it is not shameful to be lazy. Use all of the tools whether they are simple or complicated; but get the job done with the least amount of effort.…