Tagged As: Jim Lacy

Wisconsin Land Cover project forging ahead

Project sponsored by the Wisconsin DNR continues to make progress towards an updated statewide land cover map based on interpreted satellite imagery.

Comment now on draft 2015 Uniform Instructions for Land Information Plans

The Wisconsin Department of Administration seeks your comments on the guidelines used by counties to prepare land information plans for the Wisconsin Land Information Program.

Wisconsin municipal GIS group seeks input

Respond to an online survey by May 22nd if you are interested in municipal GIS issues.

Clarification on new NGS geoid model

Implementing the new “GEOID12A” model is not necessary in the continental U.S.

Help celebrate the history of cartography on April 25th

Join the University of Wisconsin and Friends of the Libraries as they honor the award-winning History of Cartography project and the forthcoming release of Cartography in the Twentieth Century.

Czechanski passes away on March 30

“Cz” was a longtime Cartographer at the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey and former supervisor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Cartography Lab.

Huxhold to be be honored on May 21st

An icon of Wisconsin land information is planning to retire later this spring.

Horton and Mertes contribute to article on urbanization

SCO staffers Josephine (Jo) Horton and Carly Mertes contributed to an article published March 3, 2015 in the journal Environmental Research Letters

Wisconsin lawmakers consider UAV technology

Committee on Jobs and the Economy hears testimony on how unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology could affect Wisconsin’s economy.

Save the date for NACIS 2015

The North American Cartographic Information Society is headed to Minneapolis on October 14-17, 2015.