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Jan. 18 -20 – Free online Community Maps Virtual Workshop

Description
Through Esri's Community Maps Program your organization can contribute its authoritative geographic data to become part of a community map that Esri publishes and hosts online. Your data is integrated with data from other providers and then published through ArcGIS Online as a map service. The community map is integrated into the World Topographic Map, hosted as part of ArcGIS Online maps, and freely accessible for use in your own applications. This workshop will teach recommended workflows to prepare your data, author a map document, and cache your data so that it can be included in the Community Maps Program.
Who Should Attend
GIS managers, technicians, spatial data managers, and other experienced ArcGIS users who will be involved in creating and maintaining a topographic community map service.
Goals
After completing this workshop, you will be able to
Assemble data for the basemap and ensure the data layers are complete and have the proper level of attribution.
Prepare data to be used in authoring the basemap through data migration and other data processing techniques.
Author a multiscale basemap using the preconfigured topographic map template.
Generate a map cache that uses the Bing Maps/Google Maps global tiling scheme.
Publish a map service and deliver the map cache to Esri for integration into the World Topographic Map.

About GIS Day

GIS Day is playing a powerful role in creating geographic awareness throughout the world.

GIS Day provides an internattional forum for users of geographic information systems (GIS) technology to demostrate real-world applications that are making a difference in our society.

History

The National Geographic Society has sponsored Geography Awareness Week since 1987 to promote geographic literacy in schools, communities, and organizations, with a focus on the education of children. GIS Day is held on the Wednesday during Geography Awareness week.

GIS Day 2011 will be held on Wednesday, November 16, 2011.

IT IS FRIDAY!!!!!!!!

Good Friday Morning,
Just a quick note of things happening in Oklahoma regarding GIS as of late. Earlier this week ESRI hosted an ArcGIS 10 Increase in Productivity seminar that seemed to be well attended & showcased the new advantages of ArcGIS 10 as well as other resources we can use in day to day operations.

Coming up next week is GIS day at the Tulsa Community College. It is on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 with several booths & presentations scheduled for the event. Registration is free & anyone is welcome to attend. OK SCAUG will be sponsoring a few refreshments at the event so stop by & see us. I'll even make the offer that if you mention this BLAUG posting to us there we might very well have a SCAUG giveaway set back for the first few lucky people.

http://www.tulsacc.edu/62743/

Have a good weekend,
CEB III

ArcGIS 10 SP1 coming soon

Esri will release ArcGIS 10 Service Pack 1 soon. Click on the title of this post to see a list of issues addressed with the service pack.