I've just returned from a week in St. Louis, for FOSS4GNA, the Free & Open Source Software for Geospatial conference, where the predominant topics this year were increasing integration of R and RStudio into the geospatial toolkit, big geospatial data management and analysis, and the management and analysis of an increasing array of high-resolution and high-cadence satellite imagery sources.
Alex Stinson, GLAM-Wiki Strategist for the Wikimedia Foundation, will be visiting Stanford University on January 30, 2018. As a part of Alex's visit, he will be giving a presentation on GLAM-Wiki, Wikidata, and global knowledge and leading an Introduction to Wikidata workshop. More details about each event follow.
GIS Day is an annual celebration of geospatial technologies, held on the Wednesday of Geography week. The Stanford Geospatial Center uses GIS Day as an opportunity to connect Stanford researchers to the cutting edge of geospatial technologies, services and applications through talks, workshops and other activities. This year, we'll have analysts, developers and scientists from DigitalGlobe, Mapbox, CARTO, NASA, The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and more, talking about their work to leverage geospatial data and technologies using machine learning, drones, satellite imagery, and historical data!
Do you have an older iPad that is just sitting around idle? Why not use it for something productive such as interactive front desk signage?