Baruth retires from American Geographical Society Library (AGSL)

Christopher Baruth has retired as Curator of the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL) at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) Libraries, where he worked for 31 years.

GIS Center opens at UW-Whitewater

A new GIS Center on the UW-Whitewater campus will provide businesses and organizations with new ways to reach customers and strengthen their operations.

USGS hosts inaugural National Map Users Conference

The U.S. Geological Survey put on an impressive show for 400+ attendees at their conference designed to connect with users of The National Map.

Statewide 18-inch imagery available this summer

New imagery dataset developed from 2010 WROC flights expected to be online by mid to late July.

New Geospatial Revolution video now available

Latest video in the Geospatial Revolution series focuses on monitoring global climate change, preventing famine, tracking disease and mapping communities never before seen on a map.geospatial_revolution_stacked

Census TIGER attempts to tame school districts

One of the more common questions we get at the SCO is “Where do I find ‘the’ school district map of Wisconsin?” The answer is more complicated than you might think.

Cohen joins city of Madison

Longtime Wisconsinite tapped to lead City of Madison GIS operations.

Upcoming workshops showcase new redistricting tool

Six workshops scheduled during the first two weeks of April will introduce attendees to the new “WISE-LR” online web mapping application for local redistricting. Roadshow_Map_120px

Third installment of Geospatial Revolution now online

Latest video in the Geospatial Revolution series focuses on  military and public safety applications of geospatial information technologies.

ASPRS conference coming to Milwaukee

The national meeting of the American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing is expected to draw over 1,200 geospatial professionals to our region during the first week of May 2011.