Best of January Links

It's 2013, time to work on whipping this mapping blog back into shape. Hopefully I can add a little more insight on what's going on, map-wise, in and around Vancouver, BC.

LOCAL: Sarah Pearce is giving a talk to the Vancouver GIS Users Group, Wednesday, Feb 6 at the BC Hydro Building downtown. Details.

NATIONAL: ESRI Canada has a new catalogue of courses. Check it out, stay on top of new tech.

INTERNATIONAL: The URISA Vanguard Cabinet picked a new set of Young Professionals to add to the ranks. As one of the original five founding members, it's been an illuminating process, and kudos to URISA for getting us YP members more involved in the organization. Best of luck newbies! (Maybe we need an Annual Report like this group!)

GIS Career Advice: Great advice, as usual, from Bill Dollins: Yes, You Need to Code.

Map-Tastic: The London Tube Map, reimagined with curves and circles.

Best Practices: Lifehacker How I Work Series: Jason Pontin & Katie Pomodoros.

Graphic Excellence, with a Vancouver geographic twist. So many high school memories at Broadway & Granville, waiting for the bus to the suburbs.

Viral Video: This is nuts. A 360 pushup? Now that's just showing off now.

URISA BC Winter Seminar 2009

Haven't had much time to blog over the past few weeks - work has been busy with the Pattullo Bridge going down and the recent flooding in the Lower Mainland due to the snowfall. This blog was just one more thing on my plate to fix up so I've got a new look now. That masthead picture is the next thing to change too (as much as I like Vegas.... it's just not geocorrect here...!)

But I do need to mention that I'm off to the Burnaby Hilton Hotel for the biannual URISA BC Workshop. This one will have a range of speakers on the use of 3D tools in the geospatial toolkit. There's been a lot of interesting developments in the past couple of years (much more than Sketchup models of buildings in Google Earth!) so it'll be good to hear what's going on around town.

Later!