WNC GIS Gathering back on this month ...

After a few months off ... come on out!

WNCGIS GATHERING
WHEN: Oct. 29th Wednesday (this week)
TIME: 5:15pm until about 6:30pm
WHERE: Asheville Brewing Co.,77 Cox Avenue
MUNCHIES: by Resource Data (buy your own drinks)

Same casual atmosphere.
Always best to walk or ride your bike. Drink responsibly.
The bus station is very close.

#1. GIS DAY at AB TECH is coming up soon! Last year was incredible. Presenters are lining up for this year. This could be one of the largest GIS events we have ever seen in WNC.

Friday, November 14th, 2008
9:00am – 2:00pm
Contact Pete Kennedy or Greg Dobson for more info.

#2. RENCI engagement centers at UNC and UNCA are organizing a statewide GIS Volunteer program. I want to hear more about this from Greg Dobson. There are a lot of GIS folks in western NC trying to find opportunities to use their talents in new and creative ways with meaningful results outside of their daily jobs. And there is a substantial public interest need in western NC for GIS support.

#3. John Wood at UNCA is looking for your hand drawn maps to study and discuss. Bring paper and pencil. Penciled maps are so much more interesting than these computer based GIS maps we have to deal with every day.

#4. Bring your own special projects to talk about. We want to hear what everyone is doing.

GIS for Real-Estate Class

Calling all students

Creative Juice is holding a competition for teams of college students who can come up with another use for an otherwise throw-away object. Get some students together and get on it! The Grand Prize is a trip to Google's Googleplex in Mountain View, California. In addition to the grand prize, there are $1000's of dollars of worth of other prizes.

Turn around time is short ... September 10th and the prize will be unveiled September 11th so there' little time to waste.

Learn more at http://www.creativejuicecompetition.com .

North Carolina Maps

Really great side from the North Carolina State Archives, North Carolina Collection, Outer Banks History Center , and Rare Book Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill. Many maps already digitized and available with hundreds more to come.

http://www.lib.unc.edu/dc/ncmaps/about.html

LizardTech and NC One Map

An integration has been done with North Carolina One Map for creating an Ortho Server for the state. I am trying to spread the word to end user groups and thought you might be interested in the data available.

Attached is the PR for their Ortho Server for the entire State http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2008/jul/17/news1.html

Catalogs of imagery available for viewing http://204.211.239.206/lizardtech/iserv/browse

These aerials can be brought into any open standards system via WMS and by other means, we also have an arcgis plugin for linking up to the ortho server, this can be brought into Arcmap, ArcGIS, Autocad, google, ArcIMS etc… via this link http://204.211.239.206/lizardtech/iserv/ows


Thanks to John for sharing. What a great resource.

John Ruffing
S.E. Regional ManagerLizardTech, Inc.
Phone: 206-902-2857
Cell Ph: 602-312-4259
Fax: 206-652-0880
Email: jruffing@lizardtech.comhttp://www.lizardtech.com/

gathering tonight ...

Where: Asheville Pizza Company -
When: 5:00pm until

Best pizza in town and it's 50 cents off beer and 50% off appetizers.



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Marshall Arts District Map

This map was made by a former student of mine and I thought I'd share it with everyone as well as plug the French Broad Fridays put on in Marshall by the Marshall Arts District.


More information can be found here: http://marshallnc.blogspot.com/