Celebrate Christmas with Mapping Fun

 The Blogger wishes all the readers  a happy and prosperous Christmas.

May this Christmas sparkle and shine, may all of your wishes and dreams come true, and may you feel this happiness all year round.

Google provides  Santa tracker which allows the users to track Santa’s movements via both Google Earth and Google Maps starting at 2:00 a.m. PST on Christmas Eve

Released ADC WorldMap v7.2

The newer version 7.2 of ADC WorldMap Digital Atlas was released. It is a detailed digital atlas offering seamless geographic data of  first and second level administrative boundaries in 130 countries worldwide.

File Formats:
                  Esri Shape (.shp) & File Geodatabase (.gdb)

                  MapInfo (.tab), Oracle 11g (Transportable Tablespaces) and many more

The new updates and highlights of new version:

• Added over 1,400 Admin 2 boundaries. The Admin 2 layer now contains over 39,000 boundaries across 130 countries
• Over 8,000 cities added to the World Cities layer
• NEW – World Nations Line layer
• NEW – simplified numeric ID field for easier analysis
• Expanded Parks & Protected Areas layer
• Increased coverage in the Built Up Areas layer
• Up to date World Nation and Admin 1 boundaries

Mapping Chennai Flooded Streets

5884 inundated roads reported

Flood Maps : An  Interactive map to visualize and crowdsource flood related information and inundated roads in Chennai, India using OpenStreetMap and Mapbox GL JS. If your street, building or neighborhood name is missing on the map, you can add it to the basemap directly by editing OSM. The flood map will be updated with the new street in under 10 minutes. The flooded streets layer is contributed by the public. Contributions are anonymous with no version control for the sake of simplicity.

16th Esri India User Conference

Register 

                   The 16th Esri India User Conference provides an opportunity for GIS experts for presenting  their thought provoking keynotes, presentations, user experiences and case studies.This makes it a must attend GIS event with inimitable access to knowledge sharing, networking and getting first hand access to new and latest advancements in GIS and Esri technology and solutions. On the first day, there will be Keynote Address by Jack Dangermond, Founder & President, Esri Inc.

Dates: 2-4 Dec, 2015

Venue: Kempinski Ambience Hotel, Delhi

Happy GIS Day

Today the entire world is celebrating GIS Day with ESRI and OGC. And this week November 15 - 21, 2015 is celebrated as Geography awareness week. The theme for 2015 Geography Awareness Week is “Explore! The Power of Maps”. National Geographic Education officially organizes Geography awareness week .

GIS day provides an international forum for users of geographic information systems (GIS) technology to demonstrate real-world applications that are making a difference in our society. More than an event GIS day brings universities, government agencies, schools, non-profits, and GIS professionals together to build knowledge of GIS in their communities, and create understanding about the world we live in. Many events are organised world wide for celebrating the GIS day and Geoawareness week.

Clearwater Seafoods wins the Award of Excellence in GIS.

Clearwater is one of North America’s largest vertically integrated seafood companies and provides premium wild, eco-certified seafood to more than 30 countries around the world. The company uses Esri geographic information system (GIS) technology for studying shellfish population resources to managing harvesting operations. Thus it results in significant cost savings and minimized impact on ocean ecosystems and it supports Clearwater’s sustainable approach to fishing.For this outstanding work, Esri Canada  presented Clearwater Seafoods with an Award of Excellence in GIS on octber 27, 2015.
“GIS serves as the ideal platform to analyze, model and forecast outcomes so that we can significantly reduce our impact on the ocean floor while more efficiently conducting our harvest operations. More importantly, it enables us to plan our activities in a broader context towards long-term sustainability. This award from Esri Canada confirms that our efforts are successful; it also recognizes our efforts towards being good stewards of the ocean.”said James Mosher, Director, Harvest Science Management, Clearwater Seafoods.
“Clearwater Seafoods’ use of GIS is helping them achieve long-term sustainability,” remarked Alex Miller, president, Esri Canada

GIS Support for the World’s Largest Airport

Taking the support of  WebGIS, the GIS professionals in Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia serve passengers with utmost operational efficiency and customer service. The GIS staff  uses the facilities  of Collector for ArcGIS, Operations Dashboard, Web AppBuilder, ArcGIS Pro, and Explorer for ArcGIS to support the work of maintenance workers, supervisors, engineering staff, general managers, inspectors, contractors, and passengers. ArcGIS capabilities such as 3D and spatial analysis enable them to deliver actionable and trusted results. Using the 3D capabilities in ArcGIS to manage tree trimming at the airfield helped the airport earn a perfect score on their most recent FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) safety inspection.

“Web GIS has transformed our team from map makers to solution providers, allowing us to be agile, responsive, meeting the needs of a 24/7 workforce,” said David Wright, the airport’s GIS manager.

28,793 Open Datasets for free from 2,267 Worldwide Organizations

ArcGIS Open Data  hosted by ESRI allows the public to access and download GIS data of around 28,793 datasets from 2,267 organizations in worldwide for free. Data can be downloaded as spreadsheet (CSV), KML, shapefile (ZIP), or API. Any one can publish their data through ArcGIS Online groups, which helps to set up public facing websites where people can easily find and download your open data in a variety of open formats.

Smart Mapping: Now available in ArcGIS Online and Server.

 Smart Mapping is an exciting new capability  built into ArcGIS Online and to the ArcGIS 10.3.1 release of Portal for ArcGIS (included with ArcGIS for Server),  designed to quickly make maps that are visually stunning and useful.

Source:ESRI

Scholarships for Indian students to study GIS and Remotesing at AIT

Scholarships are available to study GIS and remote sensing at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand for different nationalities at Master’s level and Doctoral level. Students from 24 countries are eligible for scholarships. Students from India are also eligible for the scholarships for doing their Masters in Remote Sensing & GIS in AIT with scholarships.

ESRI updated Standard Global Demographic Data

          By July 2015 ESRI will release the updated Standard Global Demographic Data of 45 Countries. The updated data can be access through ArcGIS platform like ArcGIS online through web maps, data enrichment, reports etc. We can also access through ESRI business analyst products and apps.There are 90 international demographic web maps that will be updated to a more current vintage (2 web maps for each of the 45 countries included in the July 2015 release).

July 2015 Country Release List(Source: ESRI)

National Symposium on

GEOMATICS FOR DIGITAL INDIA

(ISG-ISRS National Symposium 2015)

December 16-18, 2015 Jaipur, Rajasthan

Last Date for Abstract Submission 15/09/2015

Position of GIS coordinator in Elections Saskatchewan, Canada

List of 300 sites for free GIS Data

Over 300 sites providing freely available GIS  datasets. 
Thanks to Mr Robin Wilson.
Click here for access

ColorBrewer for map graphics

ColorBrewer is an online tool designed to help people select good color schemes for maps and other graphics.
ColorBrewer

6th ESA Advance Training course on Land Remote Sensing

The European Space Agency (ESA) is  organizing an  advanced  Training Course on Land Remote sensing.
Last date for Online application: 01 May 2015
Dates: 14-18 September 2015
Venue:University of Agronomic Science and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania 
Online Application