Street Roots and the Mapping Action Collective, with support from PSU, have launched a digital online web map version of their famous Rose City Resource. This new application allows easy access to a comprehensive database of services relating to addressing the needs of houseless and other underserved people.

The application can be accessed at  https://rosecityresource.streetroots.org/ 

https://www.mapbox.com/webinars/storytelling-template-live-demo/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=blast&utm_campaign=email|blast|storytelling-template|livestream-demo-20-04&utm_term=storytelling-template&utm_content=livestream-demo

Live-coding demo: How to use the Mapbox Storytelling Template to create a story map
Maps make data understandable, powerful and memorable. Join this session to learn how to use our “Storytelling Template” to quickly build an interactive experience with high-quality map visuals. This storytelling format — sometimes called “scrollytelling” — lets you include as much context as you want, and define the locations your users look at. It’s a great way to bring stories to life.

​You’ll learn how to...

• Download the template and choose your style
• Add the places you want to include in your story
• Add photos and text content to enrich each chapter
• Publish your project to share it with the world!

Who:
At Axis Maps, our aim is to bring the traditions of cartography to the web. We design and build custom interactive web maps for a wide range of clients, focusing on clear design founded on good cartographic principles. Whether it’s a public health map, an animated earthquake map, a live election map, an interactive museum exhibit, or a historical mapping platform, we strive to build the design best suited to our clients’ data and audiences.

What:
We are seeking a full- or part-time web map developer to help bring our designs to life. As a developer, you will largely be responsible for writing code that powers our maps, but your cartographic and interactive design skills will also help us make the best maps possible. Please see the skills and qualities we’re looking for below, and apply if they sound like you!

We encourage and welcome people of any background, gender, ethnicity, ability, and sexual orientation to apply.

We need someone with these qualities:

• Front-end JavaScript web development experience, including React and D3. Comfort with JavaScript and web development is necessary for role. Most of our current work involves React and/or D3, so at a minimum you should have some exposure to those and confidence to learn them quickly.
• Ability to work remotely. Axis Maps is small team that is 100% remote, so the ability to communicate effectively online, keep projects organized, take charge of your own schedule, and put in a full day’s work outside an office setting is a must.
• Familiarity with geographic data. There’s no escaping some data processing for any project, so you should understand what geographic data looks like and how to work with it.

Other helpful qualities:

• A good eye for design and an understanding of cartographic principles
• Willingness to learn and keep up with ever-changing web mapping technology
• Experience with Mapbox Studio and Mapbox GL JS, and/or other web mapping libraries
• Node.js experience
• QGIS experience
• Command-line geodata processing experience, such as with GDAL or Mapshaper
• PostGIS experience

Where:
Anywhere—this is a remote job—but UK and central/eastern USA are preferred, as we are based in those countries and time zones.

When:
Now! Please apply by Wednesday, 4 September 2019.

How:
Please email Andy Woodruff at andy@axismaps.com and include:

• A link to an online portfolio of your work. (Important! We cannot consider applications without examples of your work.)
• A brief summary of your background, relevant experience, and/or interest in this kind of work.
• Anything else you want to share about your motivations and inspirations related to interactive cartography.

Telling your Geoscience Story with Story Maps
1pm Eastern/Noon Central/11am Mountain/10am Pacific Time Thu 14 Mar 2019
 
Communicating results of geoscience investigations to a diverse set of audiences will grow in importance in our 21st Century World. Communicating science is and will remain important to the entire community. GIS will continue to expand as an important tool for spatial analysis and visualization.  Story maps are web mapping applications that provide geoscientists with the ability to combine 2D and 3D maps, audio, video, photographs, and narrative that can be shared with research colleagues, or the general public, and embedded in web pages and online presentation tools. This webinar will quickly give you the knowledge, skills, and confidence to make your own maps for telling your own story.
 
Speaker: Joseph Kerski, PhD, GISP, Education Manager, Esri

Free registration here:
https://crm.americangeosciences.org/civicrm/event/info?id=175&reset=1
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Did you know you can edit ESRI basemaps??  You can:   https://developers.arcgis.com/vector-tile-style-editor/

The Northwest GIS User Group (NWGIS) is sponsoring three separate one-day WebAppBuilder workshop in February and March 2017. The workshop is being offered in Boise, Eugene and Olympia and the registration fee is being subsidized by NWGIS.

Purpose: Provide an educational benefit to members of NWGIS. Provide three one-day workshops in a classroom setting on Esri’s ArcGIS online WebAppBuilder in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. 

Trainer: The trainer will be Eric Pimpler of GeoSpatial Training Services (the link is external).

Format: Classroom style training with each student bringing their own laptop.  Handouts will be provided.

Workshop Support: Attendees are responsible for their own parking and lodging before and/or after the training.  Information about parking and the training room will be sent to registered attendees. A lunch will be provided as part of this workshop. Each workshop will be limited to 24 participants. A waiting list will be maintained.

Registration: Registration is online using the NWGIS web site.  The fee is $60 per student.  The Northwest GIS User Group is subsidizing the three workshops up to $2,000. Cancellations will be permitted up to two weeks prior to the training.  Less than two weeks prior to the first class, refunds will not be offered, but substitutions will be possible at any time. Registered students whose plans change can contact individuals on the waiting list to facilitate substitutions.

Locations & Dates: Class begin at 8:30 AM, there will be a one-hour lunch break, and conclude about 4:30 – 5 PM. The locations and dates are:

1. Monday, February 27 in Eugene @ Lane Council of Governments;  Buford Room, 859 Willamette St, Eugene
2. Wednesday, March 1 in Boise @ Joe Williams East Conference Room at the Capitol Mall
3. Friday, March 3 in Olympia @ Esri office (tentative)

For more information, please email the workshop coordinator, Keith Massie (link sends email).
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Gretchen Peterson, Cartographer and author, has created some video tutorials for using TileMill - a web mapping tool.  


Check them out: http://www.gretchenpeterson.com/blog/?p=3448

Making data beautiful - another reason to learn TileMill for web mapping!

To read the full article:
http://www.wired.com/design/2013/05/a-cloudless-atlas/

Frank Biasi's will be presenting a webinar -- Integrating Multimedia and Maps to Tell Stories and Engage the Public -- next Wednesday, March 13th at 12 noon, Eastern Time. Frank is the Director of Digital Development with National Geographic Maps and he has a lot of fascinating conservation GIS information to share with us.

Please click here for more details and follow the instructions below to join the discussion.

Topic: Integrating Multimedia and Maps 
Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 
Time: 12:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) 
Meeting Number: 825 742 753 
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This is an article about gun rights, maps, and privacy - thought some people would find it interesting!

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/25/us/new-york-gun-permit-map/index.html?hpt=hp_c1