33rd Annual “GIS in the Rockies” Conference October 8–9, 2020 Conference Website Due to COVID-19 and restrictions on large gatherings, the 2020 GIS in the Rockies is now planned as a virtual event on October 8 and 9 (the originally scheduled dates). We carefully evaluated numerous possible adaptations for an in-person conference but concluded there is no […]

The Rocky Mountain Region is proud to announce our two student scholarship winners for the 2019-2020 program. Lawrence Beals, a Masters Degree candidate at Colorado State University in Fort Collins,  Department  of Anthropology and Geography, was awarded $1,000 in the Masters Degree category.  He is researching sites in Mexico, Honduras and Columbia to determine how LiDAR density patterns affect […]

This article from the BBC might be of interest:  “Finding the Invisible Millions Who are Not on Maps” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52650856 State of the Map 2020 online (July 4 – 5, 2020) might be good opportunity to learn more about the world’s largest mapping community. OpenStreetMap powers map data on thousands of websites, mobile apps, and hardware […]

Dear colleagues, The slides and recordings from FOSS4G UK 2020, organised by volunteers of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation’s UK Chapter OSGeo:UK, are at https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4gukonline2020/sessions.html and http://www.youtube.com/c/FOSS4GUK Participants from over 75 countries attended the online conference on 17th June 2020. I thank all volunteers of OSGeo:UK for their work and efforts that made this possible. […]

US NSF Convergence Accelerator Expo – Spatial Decision Support for Open Knowledge Networking (OKN) The US National Science Foundation funded several Pilot (Phase 1) projects as part of the development of the Open Knowledge Network for the US. As team members of the Open Knowledge Network for Spatial Decision Support project team, we are reaching […]