March 16, 2011 – Anything Geospatial

This via way of Esri New Zealand’s @jiriteach (see this blog post) as the Christchurch Earthquake Incident Viewer is now available and optimized for viewing on Smartphone. The web service is supporting a number of mobile platforms and is made available in an effort to provide mobile-enabled locals with the latest information to help them navigate the city. The service support the following mobile platforms:

Android
iPad
iPhone
iPod Touch
BlackBerry 6.0 And Above

To view the incident web browser simply point your mobile web client to http://eqviewer.co.nzAdditionally, a service of layers showing available bus routes in the region can be found at http://eqviewer.co.nz/index-busroutes.html

There’s no doubt that there’s a TON of events that target GIS professionals. Kicking back at your desk is a great way to enjoy some of the fine education opportunities that are offered to professionals by a number of Geo solution providers. The following are just a few of the opportunities available in the near future:

Geosoft webinar – Never leave your GIS to analyze your drillhole data: Target for ArcGIS. Discover how you can compile, map and analyse your drillhole and borehole geology data and quickly integrate it with exploration data within your ArcGIS environment

Esri Online Training – Esri offers regular, online training and webinars of interest to any GIS technology professional. Check out the schedule and register as a member in their training program – loads of opportunities here! Be sure to view also the fine archive of recorded presentations!

LizardTech Webinars, March and April – explore the new features offered with the latest version of GeoExpress software, which introduces the MrSID® Generation 4 (MG4™) format for compression of raster data, adding support for multispectral data, alpha channels and improved mosaicking

Blue Marble Geographics – Learn about Blue Marble Desktop, Geographic Calculator and other solutions. Webinar topics coming up in the future include: Horizontal Time Dependant Positioning, and BEST FIT: relate local coordinate systems to any standard geodetic or projected system

ERDAS Training – learn more from ERDAS about popular solutions for your workflows

Autodesk – Supporting the annual Autodesk University, AU online offers a wealth of online training material, classes, event archives, podcasts, supporting blogs and much more – au.autodesk.com

TerraGo Training and events – The company offers regular online training with the next event touching on digital map books (March 24)

Geocortex from Latitude Geographics – learn more about the new Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight through a free, live webinar.

Our friends at Avenza aren’t streaming their training to your desktop, however, they do have plans for a number of local events and training dates that may coincide with a conference that you might be attending (like Esri UC in San Diego) – see more details HERE

Finally, for those interested in a FULL time online experience, USC offers professionals a graduate program in GIS and Technology – GIST students receive advanced training and learn the practical applications of GPS/GIS that they can apply in their professional and research lives. Two professional advanced graducate programs are available to select from.