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Georgia Geospatial Conference
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Georgia URISA, ASPRS Mid South, SAMSOG and GITA Southeast are joining together again for the Georgia Geospatial Conference of 2014 to be held October 6th-8th at the Classic Center in downtown Athens. Participants are welcome from federal, state, local governments; academic; private sector; non-profit and international organizations.
If you are a practitioner, student, or otherwise interested, in the fields of geographic information systems or surveying, please make plans to attend the largest geospatial conference in Georgia. For three days, you will have the chance to network with peers, share projects and ideas, and learn.
On October 6th, there will be pre-conference workshops. On October 7th and 8th, you will hear from leaders in the GIS and surveying fields with practitioners sharing papers and presentations. On Tuesday afternoon, we have a session devoted to future leaders in the GIS field: students. That night we will also host a social in Downtown Athens.
For more information:
http://www.geospatialconferencega.com/
More details and instructions for registration will be coming soon.
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Welcome to 2014, Members! This year is going to bring even more opportunities to interact with other GIS professionals and geospatial enthusiasts. Georgia URISA remains dedicated to providing our members with monthly luncheons, low-cost workshops, and a broad forum for obtaining those valuable GISP points.
Membership renewal letters will be coming soon for those that applied early in 2013. Those new to GIS or those that are considering joining GAURISA can visit our membership page for an application form. GAURISA has a rolling membership and it will be active for one year from the date you sign up!
And as always, feel free to e-mail Ross Brewer, [email protected] for all of your membership needs!
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2014
March 26 - Darien, GA
Coastal GAURISA Subchapter Luncheon
April 16 - Alpharetta, GA
Joe Bless Family Benefit Workshop:
Building an Address Repository Using the FGDC Standard
May 5-9 - Calgary AB Canada URISA Leadership Academy September 8-11 - New Orleans GIS PRO 2014 October 6-8 - Athens, GA October 13-17 - Louisville, KY URISA Leadership Academy
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Benefit Workshop to assist Joe Bless Family
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Dear Georgia URISA members and friends,
The Georgia URISA Board was recently made aware of a GIS colleague whose family is in need of immediate and lasting assistance. Joe Bless is a graduate from the Gainesville College GIS program and is currently employed as a GIS analyst at an Atlanta based GIS firm. Some of you may know Joe and are aware of his story. Joe was recently admitted into treatment for a degenerative brain disease that has affected his ability to work or to lead a normal life. Loss of income is hard for anyone, but for Joe and his family, the situation was made worse during the first snowstorm in January when pipes in their house burst. The broken plumbing flooded out the living areas, damaged much of their property like clothes and furniture, and made the house uninhabitable. The family has been living out of suitcases in a hotel for several weeks until their house can be repaired. Joe and his wife Lucinda have two young children.
In an effort to raise some much needed funding for Joe and his family, Georgia URISA has organized a workshop to benefit the Bless family. We were able to get everything donated in terms of licensing, instructor time and classroom space, so 100% of the funds raised for this workshop will go directly to the Bless family to help them get through the challenges that they are now facing. Special thanks go to Sara Yurman for agreeing to teach the class pro bono, Natalie Culpepper for donating classroom space at the ESRI offices in Alpharetta, and Keri Brennan for donating the URISA workshop license for us to use at no cost. This has all come together in a short period of time so that we can provide assistance in a timely manner to Joe. Please take this opportunity to leverage some great training at an affordable cost while helping out one of our colleagues in his time of need.
A fund is also set up for you to give directly to the Bless family. Here is the link to the donation page:
https://fundly.com/aiding-the-bless-family. Every dollar helps them to buy clothes for their children, food, and to repair the house so that they can move back home. If you would rather to donate time, then rest assured that construction helpers are not going out of style any time soon. Contact me at [email protected], and I can connect you with their friend who is the contractor for the repairs.
Thank you for your kindness and consideration.
Sincerely,
Colin Gowens
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Date: April 16, 2014
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location and Directions: ESRI
3650 Brookside Pkwy
Norcross, GA 30022
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Building an Address Repository Using the FGDC
Standard: Implementing Quality and Data Sharing
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Full-day URISA Certified Workshop
This URISA Certified Workshop will help you understand the addressing process, managing address data, and organizational challenges. It will guide you in developing a Master Address Repository that serves the needs of the entire organization. The workshop will also review the Federal Geographic Data Committee Street Address Data Standard, and help you understand how the standard can help you build quality address data.
Instructor
Sara Yurman, GISP
Sara Yurman, GISP, is a founding partner in Spatial Focus, Inc, a consulting firm specializing in addressing and spatial data. In that capacity she has worked nationally and internationally, handling projects in locations as diverse as Little Rock, Arkansas, Bandah Aceh, Indonesia and Zrenjanin, Serbia. Sara is a member of the Address Standard Working Group, chairing the Quality Control section of the FGDC Address Standard. Prior to the Spatial Focus startup, Sara served as a GIS Manager for local, regional and state governments. She has been a URISA member throughout her career, currently serving on the board of Georgia URISA.
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$125 Donation, lunch is on your own
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