ESRI's Hurricane Katrina Disaster Viewer Map Service

A new Web application, the Hurricane Katrina Disaster Viewer, is now available from ESRI to provide detailed information about areas impacted by Hurricane Katrina. The site allows the public, emergency responders, relief organizations, and others to locate an address or zoom to areas of interest and view areas declared "damaged" by FEMA, affected delivery areas for the U.S. More info about the app is now available at http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/6917/ or you can jump directly to the application at http://arcweb.esri.com/sc/hurricane_viewer

GITA Announces Online Conference for Fall 2005

The Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) announced today that it will host its first-ever online convention and exposition, beginning Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, 2005. Attendees will gather virtually to attend sessions presented by seven featured speakers. Complete info and free reg. details available at http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/6916/

MSN provides before / after Hurricane Katrina online imagery

MSNBC / MSN has released a very impressive image gallery showing before and after imagery in select hotspots in New Orleans. An overview map reveals camera icons that produce before/after side-by-side imagery of the place of interest. Check it out at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/apps/ve/katrina.htm?a=1/ Imagery has been provided by Pictometry.

 

GIS Career Opportunities

The following are just several of the many GIS career listings that have hit the gisuser career center this week.

 Geospatial Systems Engineer
 GIS Coordinator
 GIS Technician
 UNIVERSITY GIS COORDINATOR (MO)
 Research Leader: ICT4EO
 Software Developer
 Assistant Database Administrator
 Entry Level Software Developer
 GIS Technician
 Mapping Technician I (CA)
 Photogrammetrist - Stereocompiler

Blogmaps

Here's a cool one for ya... jump to http://www.blogwise.com/blogmaps and you can view a Google map API mashup that enables you to view the location of blogs as you pan around the World. Taking this even further, they also have a KML that enables you to view the blog locations in google Earth.. nice! http://www.blogwise.com/maps/earth.kml Speaking of mashups, I recently stumbled onto what I think is the coolest Google API mash I've seen to date. See the amazing Googlemap Gym Search at http://www.gympost.com/gymsearch/map.php. Sort by Women/men or by gyme type... aerobics, pilates, etc... this is a truly awesome implementation! Can you top this???

Street Address Data Standard up for review

The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) presents the first draft of a newly created Street Address Data Standard for first review and comment by the geospatial community.  The draft standard is available on the URISA website, http://www.urisa.org/address_data_standard.htm .  This is the first opportunity for members of the GIS Community to view the Federal Geographic Data Committee-approved effort to create a street address data standard. URISA invites everyone to review the standard and provide comments.  The comment period for this version of the draft standard will end on October 3, 2005.  A second draft will be posted for comment after the URISA annual conference (October 9-12).

USGS to Announce Location of Consolidated Geospatial Center

Tomorrow the USGS plans to Announce Location of Consolidated Geospatial Center and Plans for Restructure - During a special media teleconference, 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. (EST), Sept. 15, USGS officials will announce the location of its National Geospatial Technical Operation Center (NGTOC) and the strategy for implementing transformation. The NGTOC will support all production activities and technical services associated with the USGS Cooperative Topographic Mapping Program, The National Map, Federal Geographic Data Committee, Geospatial One Stop, and Department of Interior Enterprise Geospatial Information Systems. Services to be provided by the Center include geospatial data integration and quality assurance, cartographic production, contract management, software and applications development, and hosting of geospatial data and applications. More info can be found at www.usgs.gov

Metacarta scores $10mill in C funding

MetaCarta has announced today that it received $10 million in a Series C round of funding. The latest round of financing was led by new investors FA Technology Ventures and Hunt Ventures and also included long-time company backers Sevin Rosen, Solstice Capital, Chisholm, In-Q-Tel and ChevronTexaco Technology Ventures. The funding will be used to expand operations, sales and marketing. See metacarta.com for more.