The Florida Utility User Group (GIS for Utilities) has scheduled their next meeting for this Thursday, July 10th, 2008. The event will be held from 2pm - 4pm in the Operation and Maintenance Training Room of Palm Beach County Utilities located at 8100 Forest Hill Boulevard in West Palm Beach, FL.

The Florida GIS Coordination Steering Committee has successfully produced a Strategic Plan for Statewide GIS Coordination. The committee continues as a volunteer group of GIS professionals striving to coordinate and support outreach activites which directly benefit the state GIS community.

ERDAS announces Image to Map: Turn up Your Stereo (Feature Collection), a free webinar on Thursday, July 10 at 11 am and 8 pm (EDT).

A "historical" article from June of 2004, "Making the Ultimate Map" - by Steven Levy as published in Newsweek Magazine.

Calvin, Giordano & Associates, Inc. and Panasonic Computer Solutions Company today announced the availability of INKforce™ Code Enforcement Tracking (CET) solution for the Panasonic Toughbook® U1, the first rugged ultra mobile PC (UMPC) to integrate the new low power Intel® Atom™ processor.

GeoSpatial Training Services will be offering an online internet course entitled "GIS Programming 101: Mastering Python for Geoprocessing in ArcGIS" from July 7th, 2008 through August 1st, 2008.

The Southwest Florida Water Management District recently modernized its IT architecture to ease the permit application and review processes associated with constructing wells. The district’s upgrade and long-term strategy has earned it the Redmond Developer News 2008 Innovator Award in the service oriented architecture (SOA) category.

The Florida Chapter of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) has recently posted their Summer 2008 Newsletter and made it available for download.

The Volusia County GIS User Group Meeting will be holding a meeting from 1:30pm - 3:30pm tomorrow, June 27th, 2008, in the first floor training room of the Thomas C. Kelly Administration Building located at 123 W. Indiana Avenue in Deland, FL.

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) is inviting the public to offer change requests for consideration by the OGC Technical Committee on a revision of the OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard. GML defines a data encoding in XML for geographic data and a grammar to express models of such data using XML Schema.

Just a reminder that the Central Florida GIS 2008 Workshop deadline for abstract submission is this Saturday - June 28th, 2008.

The Broward County GIS Users Group will be holding their monthly meeting today, June 25th, 2008 from 2:30pm - 4:30pm in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Geo-Visus, Inc. has just released the first in a series of six interview podcasts as an ESRI Business Partner.

The Florida Utility User Group (GIS for Utilities) has scheduled their next meeting for July 10th, 2008. The event will be held from 2pm - 4pm in the Operation and Maintenance Training Room of Palm Beach County Utilities located at 8100 Forest Hill Boulevard in West Palm Beach, FL.

TC Technology announces the Regional Municipality of York, located in Ontario, Canada chose GO! Sync Mapbook with the Redline and Inspection Extensions as its Mobile GIS standard.

ERDAS Inc. announces its participation as a gold sponsor at the Geo Intelligence India Conference on Geospatial Applications in Defence and Internal Security, being held at the Hotel Le Meriden, New Delhi, June 25-26, 2008.

The Northeast Florida GIS Users Group (NEFGIS) will be holding a meeting this Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 from 10am - 12:30pm at the Nassau County Board of County Commissioner Chambers located at 96135 Nassau Place in Yulee, FL.

The 2008 Florida Department of Revenue's "County GIS/Mapping Data & Personnel Directory" is now available for download.

The International Lidar Mapping Forum is the premier event for the LiDAR industry attracting professionals from all over the world looking to invest in and benefit from LiDAR technology and services. The next event is scheduled for January 26 – 28, 2009 in New Orleans, USA.

The Seminole County GIS Users Group will be holding their next meeting on July 17th, 2008 at the Seminole County Public Safety Building located at 150 Bush Boulevard in Sanford, FL.