Wisconsin Geospatial News

The History of Cartography Project has launched a new online video series to celebrate publication of "Cartography in the European Enlightenment" (Volume 4 of the "History of Cartography").

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

We have published our 2019-20 Annual Report.