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Next Northwest GIS User Conference September 30 - October 4, 2012 - Portland, Oregon

Submitted by bbutterfield on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 8:16pm

Hello all and Happy Holidays!

The NW GIS Users Group is active planning the next conference. Here's the news& we're joining forces with URISA and their GIS-Pro 2012 50th Anniversary Conference in Portland, OR, Sept. 30-Oct. 4, 2012. Classes are on Sept. 30 - Oct. 1 and the conference follows.

This should be an outstanding conference for a number of reasons and not just the fact that we've joined forces. Paramount is the fact that this will be a crossing of cultures: Management & Technology. Traditionally, URISA is more of a management focus and NWUG is more of a technical group. The combination will offer you a lot of outstanding choices!

We have three representatives from the NWUG on the planning committee and we're working for you. For instance, our typical registration fees and business partner fees have been somewhat less than theirs. We're negotiating these prices to help you get the biggest bang for your buck!

We'll have more information for you as we approach the conference date, but for now, mark these dates on your calendar!

Also, please be thinking about paper presentations or short 1-2 hour workshops. The Call For Papers should be sent out the first part of the year AND there is an EARLY DEADLINE! (February!) Be thinking now about your presentations.

Summary:

  • Sept. 30 - Oct. 4, 2012 - put it on your calendar and in your budget
  • Put together ideas for presentations (Feb. deadline)
  • Keep an eye out for more announcements

Watch for us at http://nwgis.org. We hope to see you there. Follow us on twitter, facebook and LinkedIn.

 

Creating the 2011 NWGIS Conference Attendees Map

Submitted by NathalieCSmith on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 1:00pm

2011 NWGIS Conference Attendees Map: The map is interactive, zoom in/out, click on the pins to get details on the attendees to the conference.  

To recreate this map (or your own simple map)

Step 1: scroll to the bottom of the community list and click on the small orange ‘csv’ button – save the file ”community.csv” to your desktop

Step 2: start ArcGIS Explorer Online: http://explorer.arcgis.com  and start a New Map

Step 3: Click on the Add Content button (button with + sign), click on “import” and select CSV

Step 4: Browse to the ‘community.csv’ file you just saved, click next and then import

You know have a map with all the currently registered attendees to the 2011 NWGIS conference.

If you want to go further and symbolize by state for example, expand the layer details ( click on > on the left side of the map) and start playing with the “Display Configuration” (to control symbology – Unique value by State for example) and/or “Pop ups Configuration” (to change the content of the pop-ups when you click on a symbol – no need to show “FID” for example).

To embed the map in a website or to share it via social media venues (facebook, twitter), you will have to save the map first and for that you will need to log in to your ArcGIS Online account (or create a login if you don’t have one).

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