I've come to rely on this, my blog, for recalling important work related events, places, tools, and datasets. But, it is a bit unwieldy as a search engine. Perhaps it is delayed spring cleaning (ok, delayed like 12 years...
My wrap-up from a very engaged and provocative 1.5 day workshop on geospatial technology futures, hosted by the CyberGIS Center: Towards a National Geospatial Software Ecosystem. First: great group of cool peeps all hyper-engaged in geospatial data, tools, use cases, science, and community.
As always, the Plenary session was an immersive and emotional showcase of the power of mapping. Running through Mondays talks was a sense of urgency for we GIS people to save the world. This is what JD calls societal GIS, or embracing the digital transformation and leverage the science of where.
Have you ever wished you had your own geoportal like ArcGIS Online within your own ArcGIS Online Organization, now you can with Esri Arcgis Hub. ArcGIS Hub and the Sites it can create will allow you to do just that. Now within UCANR we can create sub sites within our organization account.
Day 1 at the User Conference was dominated by the Plenary talks of ESRI Owner Jack Dangermond and others. The morning plenary by Mr. Dangermond and other ESRI Staff is where they highlight the newest technology that we now have access to from ESRI.