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The Iowa Caucuses

By Brad Cutler | January 8, 2008 |

This should probably be a posting that talks about all the mapping mashups that showed the results from last week’s caucuses here in Iowa, but it isn’t. I saw this…

Over the river and through the woods……….

By Brad Cutler | December 21, 2007 |

Just in time for all of you who are traveling to (or through) lovely Davenport for the holiday season, Microsoft Virtual Earth has unveiled a ton of new imagery around…

Imagery for the Nation Update

By Brad Cutler | September 19, 2007 |

For those of you who haven’t seen the announcement, the cost-benefit analysis conducted on the Imagery for the Nation Initiative is completed and available for your review. NSGIC also had…

With Liberty & Free Data for All?

By Anne Packard | July 5, 2007 |

Happy 4th of July! Recently I saw information on what is happening in California with regard to their policies on GIS data. They had similar rules about charging no more…

IGIC email list archives

By Brad Cutler | June 21, 2007 |

As a heads-up to those of you who might ever be looking for IGIC email list archives: http://groups.google.com/group/igic/topics The archive has been archiving since May of 2006.

IGIC Committee Charters

By Brad Cutler | June 21, 2007 |

Over the last six months, the IGIC Executive Committee and the individual IGIC Committee Chairs have worked to draft the following committee charter documents. Each of the committees have a…

Links of interest

By Brad Cutler | June 21, 2007 |

OK. We’ve converted back to the “classic” Blogger template for the IGIC blog. In doing so, we lost a little bit of the functionality that was somewhat useful in the…

Imagery for the Nation Update – June 2007

By Brad Cutler | June 19, 2007 |

NSGIC is planning a series of updates to keep people informed about progress on the Imagery for the Nation Iinitiative. The current document can be found here. The next one…

Iowa Geospatial Infrastructure blog created

By Brad Cutler | May 18, 2007 |

In an effort to keep folks up to date and in the loop with happenings related to the Iowa Geospatial Infrastructure (IGI) workgroup and project, a new website/blog has been…

RFP for Business Planning Services

By Brad Cutler | May 18, 2007 |

Today IGIC is releasing an RFP for consulting services to help us develop the business plan. This request will be open to anyone, including individuals, private service firms, academic departments,…

2007 IGIC Conference Review

By Anne Packard | May 14, 2007 |

Well, the 2007 IGIC Conference, held in Sioux City, Iowa, has successfully come to an end. The most exciting piece of the conference was the fact that Ron Koch, Conference…

2007 IGIC Conference Award Recipients

By Brad Cutler | May 3, 2007 |

Congratulations to the following award recipients. Enough can not be said about the three individuals who received awards at this year’s conference and what they have done to further the…