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  • Avenza Launches PDF Maps App 2.0 on iOS

    Avenza Systems, Inc., developer of cartographic software — such as MAPublisher for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager geospatial tools for Adobe Photoshop — announced the launch of PDF Maps app 2.0 for iOS devices.

    The enhanced version incorporates suggestions from consumers that currently use the geospatial PDF and GeoTIFF reader on Apple iOS for travel, outdoor activities or business purposes out in the field. Based on the needs of its primary consumers, PDF Maps app 2.0 provides iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users the ability to track speed and elevation in real time, and import and export data more succinctly.

    The PDF Maps app takes advantage of geospatial technology that allows travelers to view and measure real-world locations and attributes. Paired together with mobile devices that utilize GPS, such as an iPhone, the PDF Maps app provides constant access to geographic locations and even points of interest without the risk of losing reception due to cell tower proximity — making it the ultimate travel accessory for any activity in areas where Internet bandwidth is not available or while roaming outside one’s data zone, Avenza said. Features include:

    • Tracking real-time movement with GPS which includes noting speed and elevation statistics
    • Saving, exporting and importing tracks in KML format
    • Saving measurements to line data as well as importing and exporting lines in KML format
    • “Map Features” list for easy organization of placemarks, lines and tracks including folder enhancements
    • Improved export accuracy

    “When we first launched PDF Maps app in 2011, we knew there was a segment of digital map users that needed something more robust than the turn-by-turn digital maps that were useful in an internet-laden urban environment, and more accessible than the expensive GPS devices that could be used offline. PDF Maps app filled that gap, and since then, we’ve grown a dedicated following that understands we’ve created a tool that supports how they want to travel, work and play…offline,” said Ted Florence, President of Avenza Systems Inc. “Today, we’ve come to a point where we can take consumer feedback and refine it in a way that benefits everyone which has been an invaluable experience for us, and we’re excited to introduce the latest version of Avenza’s PDF Maps app 2.0 to the map users that have provided their own insight to help create it.”

    Avenza’s PDF Maps app expands a traveler’s choices, allowing them to access detailed geography or points of interest created by specific map publishers for use on land, sea or air. PDF Maps app 2.0 allows consumers to access information while at a destination, providing users an opportunity to make the most of their time experiencing their environment rather than searching for cell reception to access directions.

    Avenza’s vast PDF Maps app library covering maps for domestic and international travel includes more than 100,000 maps organized by state and area. All maps available through the in-app iTunes-like map store offer the following capabilities:

    • Access and load maps through in-app purchase, iTunes File Sharing, Wi-Fi or cellular network to read maps anytime
    • Access and interact with saved maps without the need for a live network connection (offline)
    • View your location on the PDF map using the built-in GPS device or via Wi-Fi triangulation
    • Find coordinate of any location in the map, including the ability to type in a coordinate to search
    • Display coordinates as Lat/Long (WGS84), Lat/Long (Map Default), Northing/Easting, or Military Grid Reference System (MGRS/United States National Grid (USNG)
    • Support for GeoTIFF files to create tiles similar to how a geospatial PDF is tiled
    • Map rendering in higher resolution
    • Overlay Google search results
    • Add waypoints and collect/record information about locations, including photos
    • Measure distances and areas
    • Open current map extents in the Maps app
    • Quickly view, zoom and pan maps using gestures (pinch, drag and flick, double tap)
    • Change pin colors, position and label names

    PDF Maps app 2.0 is available now on the iTunes App Store free of charge for personal and private use. Commerical, government and academic use licensing is available for a nominal fee.

  • USGS Releases Updated U.S. Topo Maps of Alaska

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    The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) announced that more than 400 new topographic maps are now available for the state of Alaska. The new maps are part of the U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Mapping Initiative, to update foundational data for the state and to replace the existing maps that are about 50 years old.

    “These new digital maps of Alaska are elevating our visual record of the surface of the state to 21st century levels,” said Anne Castle, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science.  “The associatedadvances in human safety, navigation, and natural resource management cannot be overestimated. The productive partnership between the State government and the USGS is facilitating acquisition of the necessary data to complete digital mapping of Alaska, which is a critical chapter in the history of our geographical knowledge of the North American continent.”

    The first 400-plus new US Topo maps for Alaska are now accessible and are the beginning of a multi-year project, ultimately leading to more than 11,000 new maps for the entire state. The goal of the AMI is the production of a complete series of digital topographical maps at a scale of 1:25,000 to replace the 1:63,360-scale maps produced about 50 years ago. The maps will be published in digital PDF format (GeoPDF) and are available for free download and manipulation on a computer.

    These new maps include several layers, with an option for the user to turn them on or off. Major updated features include:

    • Satellite image layers which allows a recent view of the earth’s surface.
    • Contours and shaded relief layers showing the lay of the land derived from newly acquired 5-meter radar elevation data.
    • Surface water features from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset, which are updated by local stewards and USGS.
    • Glaciers updated using Randolph Glacier Inventory data.
    • Boundaries integrated from multiple sources, including Census and major Federal landholders.
    • The Public Land Survey System layer from the Bureau of Land Management.
    • Roads from a commercial vendor under a USGS contract.
    • Railroads and the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline data from local sources.
    • Important buildings including police stations, schools, and hospitals.
    • Airports, heliports and seaplane landing strips compiled by USGS from multiple sources.
    • Feature names from the USGS-maintained Geographic Names Information System.

    To ensure that the maps meet current accuracy specifications and standards, the maps will be made using newly acquired elevation and imagery data from multiple state, federal and commercial sources. The map-making process will be largely automated using software specially adapted by the USGS to create approximately 11,275 digital map quadrangles, covering the entire area of the state.

    Mapping in Alaska did not keep pace with records for the rest of the nation as a result of difficult terrain, remote locations, and vast distances. Modern mapping information does not exist over the majority of land in the state. Prior to this effort, topographical maps for much of Alaska were about 50 years out of date and not produced to current standards, which rely largely on high resolution digital imagery and elevation data. As a consequence, essential public services have suffered, among them transportation planning and safety, urban and regional planning, economic development, natural resource management, conservation and scientific research.

    This new generation of digital topographic maps will continue the rich and valuable USGS cartographic history, and serve the Nation by providing reliable scientific information to describe and understand the Earth; minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters; manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources; and enhance and protect quality of life.

    For more information and download, go to: http://nationalmap.gov/alaska/

  • Agency9 Releases 3D Models and 3D Cities for City Planners

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    Aerial imagery Courtesy of InterAtlas

    Agency9, a provider of web-based 3D visualization solutions, announces support for 3D models and cities generated with Smart3DCapture from Acute3D. Municipalities, authorities, and private organizations can now use the photo-realistic 3D models in Agency9 CityPlanner to easily create web applications for planning, GIS, tourism and security, Agency9 said.

    According to the announcement, Acute3D’s Smart3DCapture is a software solution enabling data providers and distributors to easily produce true-3D models of cities from aerial and terrestrial imagery, without any human intervention. Agency9 has streamlined a process to support large-scale 3D models from Acute3D Smart3DCapture for web deployment. CityPlanner users can easily edit the Smart3DCapture data, such as demolish buildings, modify terrain, export exerts of data, as well as upload vector data, images, 3D models in order to create stunning interactive illustrations for public consultation or exhibition phases in planning or tourist oriented applications.

    “Agency9 has a vision to web enable any type of 3D terrain and city models in value adding applications. Agency9 is thrilled by the partnership with Acute3D and the potential it creates. Photorealistic 3D models are requested in many applications and Smart3DCapture is definitely one of the sharpest on the market. With CityPlannerOnline Agency9 uniquely offer data providers and users to publish Acute3D data online at a cost starting as low as 5,000 EUR per year without need to invest in IT infrastructure,” said Håkan Engman, CEO at Agency9.

    “The interoperability of our Smart3DCapture solutions is a very important topic at Acute3D, and the partnership with Agency9 opens exciting perspectives in the diffusion of large 3D models through online applications,” said Jean-Philippe Pons, CEO at Acute3D.

    Agency9 CityPlanner is a web-based service for 3D visualization of projects within urban development, infrastructure and energy. CityPlanner provides 3D web planning tools for widespread access and collaboration. It is created for urban planners, communicators, consultants and GIS technicians to easily create, share and publish project and spatial information from a normal web browser. CityPlanner is used by municipalities internationally in their daily work with master and local planning, also involving stakeholders and citizens in the planning process by enabling web publishing of 3D plan visualizations.

  • DigitalGlobe Reportedly Pushing the U.S. Government to Ease Limits on Satellite Imagery Resolution

    Breaking Defense is reporting that DigitalGlobe has requested that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) relax the 41-cm limit currently in place.

    Walter Scott, DigitalGlobe’s founder and now executive VP and chief technical officer, tells Breaking Defense there is “significant demand” for quarter-meter resolution from the international market. And that’s why the company applied for a change to the resolution they can be licensed for from half a meter to a quarter meter.

    NOAA is responsible for managing remote sensing satellite licenses in the U.S. View the Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs website here.

    Current NOAA license holders (per NOAA website)  are listed below:

  • EarthCam Premieres Construction Time-Lapse Movie to Commemorate Opening of the Bay Bridge

    Watch EarthCam’s time-lapse movie of the construction progress for one of the largest ARRA (American Recovery and Restoration Act) funded projects in our nation’s history.

    More than 42,000 hours of construction can be seen in just four minutes with the release of EarthCam’s official time-lapse movie for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. After many years of construction to retrofit and transform the Bay Bridge, project teams and contractors will be celebrating all of their hard work at the opening of the updated bridge today, September 3.

    The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) relied on 12 EarthCam construction cameras to document progress for the $6.4 billion bridge. In 2008, EarthCam installed a combination of live streaming video cameras and high definition time-lapse systems, all carefully documenting progress from several unique perspectives. Strategically located on the project site, each camera captured a specific view of the progress, archiving footage from 42 preset angles. During the life of the project, views of progress, as well as important information about construction-related lane closures, were made available on the Webby award-winning public web page.

    EarthCam’s construction cameras captured nearly six years of progress, a powerful testament to the hard-working and dedicated bridge teams. The EarthCam Time-Lapse Production Team pored over the staggering number of images captured over the past 59 months and spent months hand-editing the archived imagery into a professional time-lapse movie.

  • Esri Releases Android Mapping App to Open Source Community

    Esri announced in a blog post that they have released an Android-based mapping app, based built entirely on the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Android V 10.1.1,  to the open source community.

    Today we are proud to announce the app has been released to the open source community on Github.  There have been some design changes and updates to the app since it’s debut including some of the following:

    • Portal API to populate a gridview with basemaps available to change in the map
    • Reverse Geocoding class
    • PopUp API to view and edit popups from a WebMap.

    This is a great starting point for developers who want to create mobile mapping apps like Google Maps & MapQuest.  Some features available now include:

    And there is more to come.  We encourage developers to collaborate with us as we use Github to continue developing this app together with our developer community.  Anyone and everyone are welcome to contribute.  We will review/accept pull requests, submit/fix issues, & use milestones for updates.  Four things you can do now include:

    1. Get Involved
    2. Report Issues/Enhancements
    3. Contribute code
    4. Improve documentation

  • Electric Utilities Benefit from Line Design Software on the Cloud

    GeoSpatial Innovations, Inc. (GSI) has released a cloud-based line design software tool for electric utility companies, GSI Designer, which it says will support seamless data collection and integration while limiting time and costs.

    GSI Designer addresses the challenges of manual line design using GPS technologies on rugged mobile hardware to maintain and extend overhead and underground electric lines. It is altering traditional steps, such as tape measurements, fighting through difficult environments and dual entry of collected data.

    “Implementing GSI Designer on the cloud cuts out many of the manual steps utility companies have to take in the line design process,” Carl Livingood, president of GSI, said. “The transition from paper to digital is important for our industry to embrace in order to remain profitable and efficiently improve services for our customers.”

    This Software as a Service model is trending in the utility industry and offers scalable, affordable solutions for data collection and storage. “It alleviates back-end server maintenance and IT resources,” said Michael Hamsa, chief technology officer of GSI. “This allows smaller utilities to take advantage of high-end software solutions that will save them money in the long-run.”

  • Microsoft to Acquire Nokia’s Devices & Services Business

    Microsoft Corporation and Nokia Corporation today announced that the Boards of Directors for both companies have decided to enter into a transaction whereby Microsoft will purchase substantially all of Nokia’s Devices & Services business, license Nokia’s patents, and license and use Nokia’s mapping services.

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    Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will pay EUR 3.79 billion to purchase substantially all of Nokia’s Devices & Services business, and EUR 1.65 billion to license Nokia’s patents, for a total transaction price of EUR 5.44 billion in cash. Microsoft will draw upon its overseas cash resources to fund the transaction. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2014, subject to approval by Nokia’s shareholders, regulatory approvals and other closing conditions.

    Building on the partnership with Nokia announced in February 2011 and the increasing success of Nokia’s Lumia smartphones, Microsoft aims to accelerate the growth of its share and profit in mobile devices through faster innovation, increased synergies, and unified branding and marketing. For Nokia, this transaction is expected to be significantly accretive to earnings, strengthen its financial position, and provide a solid basis for future investment in its continuing businesses.

    “It’s a bold step into the future – a win-win for employees, shareholders and consumers of both companies. Bringing these great teams together will accelerate Microsoft’s share and profits in phones, and strengthen the overall opportunities for both Microsoft and our partners across our entire family of devices and services,” said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft chief executive officer. “In addition to their innovation and strength in phones at all price points, Nokia brings proven capability and talent in critical areas such as hardware design and engineering, supply chain and manufacturing management, and hardware sales, marketing and distribution.”

    “We are excited and honored to be bringing Nokia’s incredible people, technologies and assets into our Microsoft family. Given our long partnership with Nokia and the many key Nokia leaders that are joining Microsoft, we anticipate a smooth transition and great execution,” Ballmer said. “With ongoing share growth and the synergies across marketing, branding and advertising, we expect this acquisition to be accretive to our adjusted earnings per share starting in FY15, and we see significant long-term revenue and profit opportunities for our shareholders.”

    “For Nokia, this is an important moment of reinvention and from a position of financial strength, we can build our next chapter,” said Risto Siilasmaa, Chairman of the Nokia Board of Directors and, following today’s announcement, Nokia Interim CEO. “After a thorough assessment of how to maximize shareholder value, including consideration of a variety of alternatives, we believe this transaction is the best path forward for Nokia and its shareholders. Additionally, the deal offers future opportunities for many Nokia employees as part of a company with the strategy, financial resources and determination to succeed in the mobile space.”

    “Building on our successful partnership, we can now bring together the best of Microsoft’s software engineering with the best of Nokia’s product engineering, award-winning design, and global sales, marketing and manufacturing,” said Stephen Elop, who following today’s announcement is stepping aside as Nokia President and CEO to become Nokia Executive Vice President of Devices & Services. “With this combination of talented people, we have the opportunity to accelerate the current momentum and cutting-edge innovation of both our smart devices and mobile phone products.”

    Nokia has outlined its expected focus upon the closing of the transaction in a separate press release published today.

    TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT

    Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will acquire substantially all of Nokia’s Devices and Services business, including the Mobile Phones and Smart Devices business units as well as an industry-leading design team, operations including all Nokia Devices & Services-related production facilities, Devices & Services-related sales and marketing activities, and related support functions. At closing, approximately 32,000 people are expected to transfer to Microsoft, including 4,700 people in Finland and 18,300 employees directly involved in manufacturing, assembly and packaging of products worldwide. The operations that are planned to be transferred to Microsoft generated an estimated EUR 14.9 billion, or almost 50 percent of Nokia’s net sales for the full year 2012.

    Microsoft is acquiring Nokia’s Smart Devices business unit, including the Lumia brand and products. Lumia handsets have won numerous awards and have grown in sales in each of the last three quarters, with sales reaching 7.4 million units in the second quarter of 2013.

    As part of the transaction, Nokia is assigning to Microsoft its long-term patent licensing agreement with Qualcomm, as well as other licensing agreements.

    Microsoft is also acquiring Nokia’s Mobile Phones business unit, which serves hundreds of millions of customers worldwide, and had sales of 53.7 million units in the second quarter of 2013. Microsoft will acquire the Asha brand and will license the Nokia brand for use with current Nokia mobile phone products. Nokia will continue to own and manage the Nokia brand. This element provides Microsoft with the opportunity to extend its service offerings to a far wider group around the world while allowing Nokia’s mobile phones to serve as an on-ramp to Windows Phone.

    Nokia will retain its patent portfolio and will grant Microsoft a 10-year license to its patents at the time of the closing. Microsoft will grant Nokia reciprocal rights to use Microsoft patents in its HERE services. In addition, Nokia will grant Microsoft an option to extend this mutual patent agreement in perpetuity.

    In addition, Microsoft will become a strategic licensee of the HERE platform, and will separately pay Nokia for a four-year license.

    Microsoft will also immediately make available to Nokia EUR 1.5 billion of financing in the form of three EUR 500 million tranches of convertible notes that Microsoft would fund from overseas resources. If Nokia decides to draw down on this financing option, Nokia would pay back these notes to Microsoft from the proceeds of the deal upon closing. The financing is not conditional on the transaction closing.

    Microsoft also announced that it has selected Finland as the home for a new data center that will serve Microsoft consumers in Europe. The company said it would invest more than a quarter-billion dollars in capital and operation of the new data center over the next few years, with the potential for further expansion over time.

    NOKIA LEADERSHIP CHANGES

    Nokia expects that Stephen Elop, Jo Harlow, Juha Putkiranta, Timo Toikkanen, and Chris Weber would transfer to Microsoft at the anticipated closing of the transaction. Nokia has outlined these changes in more detail in a separate release issued today.

    EXTRAORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS MEETING

    Nokia plans to hold an Extraordinary General Meeting on November 19, 2013. The notice of the meeting and more information on the transaction and its background are planned to be published later this month.

    PRESS CONFERENCE

    Nokia will host a press conference today, Tuesday, Sept. 3, at 11 a.m. EEST in Dipoli, Espoo (Otakaari 24). Registration will start at 10 a.m., and the doors will open at 10.40 a.m. Due to space constraints, only media who show valid press credentials at the registration will be admitted. Media are encouraged to watch a live webcast of the press conference at:http://press.nokia.com/

  • Intergraph Mobile Alert App Enables Citizen Crowdsourcing

    Intergraph released Intergraph Mobile Alert, a new mobile application for crowdsourcing incident information. Intergraph Mobile Alert simplifies reporting for citizens. Cities benefit by enlisting the masses to help define and pinpoint issues, such as road or utility line damage. With crowdsourcing to collect data about city infrastructure growing in popularity, Intergraph’s Mobile Alert allows citizens with GPS-enabled smartphones to play an active role in their regions by immediately sending incident information to authorities.

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    “This new offering is designed to enable local governments to foster more citizen involvement in community improvement efforts,” said Vince Smith, Product Line Executive – GIS, Intergraph. “Now, citizens can simply take a photo of an asset or an event and send it to a hosted system where it can be acted upon in near real-time by their local government authorities.”

    Interested citizens can register issues involving anything from graffiti and illegal trash dumping, to road problems such as potholes, missing streetlights, or broken signage. The app, downloadable from app stores like iTunes and Google Play, has an intuitive interface that allows users to complete a report and send it to the appropriate authorities in just a few minutes.

    For resource-thin public works agencies, Mobile Alert offers a reliable, cost-effective means of collecting actionable data from any citizen source. Local government agencies and utility companies simply subscribe to receive the crowd-sourced information by email or through OGC web services.

    According to the announcement, originally developed in collaboration with local governments in Europe, the Mobile Alert client app has already been downloaded by more than 30,000 people worldwide and was ranked #1 on the Danish iTunes store for utility apps.

  • Out in Front: Geospatial on Everything

    Alan Cameron, GPS World and GSS publisher.
    Alan Cameron, GPS World and GSS publisher.
    GPS World Publisher Learns about GIS

    By Alan Cameron

    Everything has a geospatial aspect. Everything. Past, present, future.

    Over grits, coffee, and the airborne delicacy purveyed at the Flying Biscuit Cafe (right out of the oven, right into your mouth) in Sandy Springs, Georgia, I absorbed this high-tech homily.

    You’ve heard of the European financial crisis. Trace it back to geospatial, from the Greek banking collapse, which in turn had roots in the implosion of the Greek tax system, due to a plethora of gaps, inconsistencies, and exceptions filed in a largely uncontrolled property cadastre — the register of real property, including details of ownership, precise location (by GPS coordinates), and value of land parcels.

    Lose control of your cadastre (your GIS), lose the country. With global interconnections, soon the continent, if not perhaps the world economy.

    For want of a nail, the battle was lost.

    Jump forward, technologically, to flash lidar. Ball Aerospace created this ability to capture continuous rapid multiple laser interferometry detection and ranging (LiDAR) images/point clouds, merged with continuous high-resolution optical images, to create full-color 3D models in real time. Stitched together with GPS, this produces real-time full-motion video: interactive geo-referenced metric 3D models.

    In field application, this can yield time-critical 3D mapping for urgent missions, enhanced situational awareness, battlefield characterization, and tactical mission planning. It can help with disaster-response planning and event forensics. Real-time models could be communicated with the public through easily comprehended moving images via television or the Internet. of the actual progress of a fire or flood, together with evacuation routes.

    Jump again to fabfi. What’s a fabfi?

    FabFi is an open-source, lab-grown system out of MIT using common building materials and off-the-shelf electronics to transmit wireless Ethernet signals across distances up to several miles. Communities can build their own networks for high-speed Internet connectivity, and access to online educational, medical, and other resources.

    Simple, low-cost, and feasible in unstable environments: Afghanistan, Kenya, and any number of countries that leapfrogged telephone landlines to come quickly into the cellular era; now they can leapfrog Ethernet cable networks and even Wi-Fi for virtual connectivity. Implement with locally available materials. Print out a 2D design file and create the pieces out of wood, metal, acrylic, clay, stone, or ice, as long as you can attach a metallic RF reflective surface to the front.

    If you haven’t guessed the geospatial aspect of this, I assure you it’s there, but I’ve run out of room here.

    For these geospatial glimpses, I am indebted to contributing editor Art Kalinski. Read his monthly columns here.

    Alan Cameron is editor-in-chief and publisher of GPS World magazine, where he has worked since 2000. He also writes the monthly GNSS System Design e-mail newsletter and the Wide Awake blog.

  • Esri Releases Yosemite National Park Rim Fire Perspectives Map

    Esri has released an interactive map illustrating the the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park in California. The Rim Fire is currently threatening many communities near Yosemite National Park and poses a potential risk to several ranger stations and sequoia groves. It has become one of the largest fires in state history since it started on August 17.

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    Click here to open the interactive map. Click through the tabs on the left side of the map to explore various perspectives about the fire. Click any feature on the map to learn more about each point of interest.

    One available map shows historic fires for comparison, such as the 1987 Complex fire.

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  • Esri Press Releases The GIS 20: Essential Skills, Second Edition

    Esri Press released The GIS 20: Essential Skills, Second Edition, by Gina Clemmer, a workbook that helps readers master the top 20 skills necessary to become proficient in using ArcGIS software. It is a direct result of a survey that Clemmer conducted with GIS professionals to determine the primary skills needed to be a successful GIS user.

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    According to the announcement, the book is a quick read and presents step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and practical tips on how to perform the fundamental skills needed to effectively use GIS. These skills include finding and editing data, querying GIS maps, creating reports, and sharing and publishing maps. The second edition offers nine bonus topics to further advance GIS skills, exercise data on an accompanying DVD, and ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop software (180-day use) to work through the exercises.

    “The purpose of the book is to provide a focused approach to learning GIS by offering clear, easy-to-follow exercises for the most commonly used GIS skills in the industry today,” says Clemmer, “It is written for professionals with no time for classroom training and can be used for independent study or an as-needed reference.”

    Clemmer is president of the research and training company New Urban Research, Inc. Over the years, she has trained thousands of GIS users throughout the United States. Clemmer holds a master’s degree in urban planning from the University of Iowa.

    Graphic: Esri Press