Tagged As: Wisconsin Geospatial News

Learning to Live with Five Different Kinds of Coordinates

Users of the modernized National Spatial Reference System will need to understand the differences between five different types of coordinates.

SCO Presentations from 2021 WLIA Annual Conference Now Available

Thanks to the pandemic, the 2021 Wisconsin Land Information Association conference was forced to “go virtual,” like so many other events over the last 12 months.  One upshot of this fact is we pre-recorded all of our presentations for submission to WLIA.

Madison, Wisconsin: A View from the Eighteen Nineties

View an interactive photographic panorama of Madison from the late 1890s taken from the Capitol dome.

Participate in GPS on Benchmarks Program

The National Geodetic Survey is asking surveyors to collect GPS observations to improve the accuracy of the new National Spatial Reference System.

Explore our new Public Land Survey System Locator app

Do you need to know where you are in the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) network?

SAGIC Selects GeoData@Wisconsin for Cross-Agency Data Access

The State Agency Geospatial Information Committee (SAGIC) is now partnering with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to provide enhanced access to geospatial data produced by Wisconsin state agencies.  Using GeoData@Wisconsin, data consumers may now search state for …

The Foot is Dead! Long Live the Foot!

The National Institute of Standards and Technology and National Geodetic Survey have announced their final decision to deprecate use of the U.S. survey foot.

The pandemic is hitting popular geospatial conferences hard, but learning and networking opportunities are still out there

While many events have been outright cancelled, “virtual” conferences like the upcoming WLIA Fall Regional are still keeping us in touch.

SCO Annual Report for 2019-20 now available

We have published our 2019-20 Annual Report.

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