Tagged As: Jim Lacy

Is Geocaching in your future?

Getting outdoors for some quality family time sounds like a great excuse for plunking down a couple hundred dollars on the latest GPS gear.

Lets put geography back in geospatial

I don’t know about you, but I always have a hard time explaining to friends and neighbors what I do for a living. Why is it so hard to for me to remember that geography is fun?!

Fun With GPS

Donald Cooke’s book Fun with GPS is best summed up this way: a guy dreams up wacky uses for GPS, then tells the rest of us how he did it.

Landsat 5 Resumes Operations

Landsat 5 imaging operations were suspended in November of 2005 as a result of difficulties with power delivered by the solar array drive. These technical difficulties have been resolved and imaging has resumed. While USGS …

GIS Day Expo 2005 at UW-Madison

On November 16^th the UW-Madison Department of Geography sponsored the third-annual GIS Day Expo at the UW Memorial Union.

WLIA nominations, membership renewals due soon

The Wisconsin Land Information Association is looking for board members, and individuals/organizations worthy of special recognition.

Statewide 1-meter color imagery now available

Working in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency, 2005 interim NAIP imagery is now available for free from the WisconsinView.org website.

‘Tis the season for… strategic planning

Come on, admit it, do you groan when you hear the phrase “strategic planning?” At least four geospatial strategic planning efforts are happening in Wisconsin in 2006.

Local geographic data funding receives boost

Thanks to a recent decision from the state’s Public Service Commission (PSC), funding for local geographic data creation will receive a boost of nearly $7 million over the next three years.

Mockert up for the challenge as new Geographic Information Officer

Sheboygan native returns to Wisconsin to help coordinate state GIS activities.