GIS Day

HAPPY GIS DAY to all! Our GIS Day event last Friday was a HUGE success. We estimate 300 people came to the event throughout the day. A BIG thanks goes to everyone who helped out...

Hopefully we'll do something similar next year...

Other GIS Day events ...

If you haven't seen all the great GIS Day events going on in the mountains, Greg Dobson did a great job of summarizing them all on http://mrgac.blogspot.com. Check it out - see you Friday!

GIS Day event this week

We are a few days away from the 'Celebration of all things GIS in and around Asheville' GIS day event hosted here at AB Tech. Please come join us for this Open House highlighting GIS activities in and around our area. Come for a little while or stay all day.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR A SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

WHEN: Friday, November 9th, 2007 / 9:00am - 2:00pm
WHERE: AB Tech Main Campus / Balsam Computer Technology Center

• See a map of the campus here

Thanks to all our sponsors and presenters:

• Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College – GIS Certificate Program
• City of Asheville – GIS Department
• Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) (Charlotte Office)
• Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
• GeoMaxim
• Madison County
• National Climatic Data Center
• NC Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NC CGIA)
• Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
• Resource Data, Inc.
• UNC-Asheville / National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC)

Questions? Contact Pete Kennedy at 828.251.1921 x289 or pkennedy (at) abtech.edu

ESRI Web-based help

The ESRI site has some of the best web-based help around. Over the past several years I've gotten so used to using it that I never really open the desktop help any more. I guess my never ending ramblings to my students has been getting through to them because today a student point out the ArcGIS 9.3 Help online. What? you say... That's what I said too but it's there. Luckily it doesn't go anywhere except to a coming soon page. Coming soon but how soon?

nice eye adam...

A Vision of Students Today

This American Life does mapping

One of my favorite shows ever, This American Life does mapping on this week's show. This weeks show has 5 parts and looks at mapping the world by the 5 senses. North Carolina artist, cartographer and author Denis Wood joins Ira Glass in Act I. Ira gives an interesting perspective to mapping from a non-mapping person (if there is such a person these days). I'm not sure I agree with everything he says but interesting none-the-less.

Denis is author of The Power of Maps and co-author of Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS (occasionally used in our GIS curriculum).

The following link will take you directly to this weeks podcast - Mapping.

GIS Day 2007

We'll be celebrating GIS Day on Friday, November 9th from 9:00am til 2:00pm right here at the AB Tech main campus. Drop in any time and to see all the exciting GIS going on in and around Asheville. The list of organizations putting this event on can be seen below:

• Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College – GIS Certificate Program
• Buncombe County – GIS Department
• City of Asheville – GIS Department
• Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) (Charlotte Office)
• Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
  
• GeoMaxim
• National Climatic Data Center
  
• NC Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NC CGIA)
  
• Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
  
• Resource Data, Inc.
• UNC-Asheville / National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC)
  

We'll have demonstrations, hands on activities, a map gallery and more. You can get more information by going to our event at gisday.com or by downloading our flyer here (refresh the page if you are not taken to the download page). Please pass around the brochure and/or put it up at work if you like.

If you'd like to talk to a live person about the event ... you can call or email me or Greg Dobson.

Pete Kennedy - pkennedy(at)abtech.edu - 828.254.1921 x289
Greg Dobson - gdobson(at)unca.edu - 828.251.6973

If you are planning on bringing a large group ... let us know so we can plan accordingly! Thanks and hope to see you there!