The Florida Utility User Group (GIS for Utilities) will be holding their next meeting this Thursday (May 15th, 2008) 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.

An article which details how the City of Safety Harbor, FL Public Works Utility Department transferred their infrastructure AutoCADD as-built drawings into a GIS platform has been published in the latest issue of ESRI's ArcNews.

An article about the Florida Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS) Program's use of GIS to monitor transported pests and diseases that bypass U.S. Customs and Border Patrol inspections is featured in the latest issue of ESRI's ArcNews.

The Census Transportation Planning Products (CTPP) Technical Advisory Group will be holding a town hall webinar meeting from 12pm - 2pm on May 21st, 2008.

An article written by Zenaida Gonzalez Kotala for UCF's News & Information website details how university professor's are using LiDAR remote sensing technology to map and identify ancient Mayan sites in Belize.

Google has launched a Geo Education site where educators can find "helpful information on using Google Earth, Maps, Sky, and SketchUp in their K-12 classrooms."

The Geo-Spatial Analytics Lab at the University of South Florida (USF) in St. Petersburg, FL is co-sponsoring an "Integrated GIS and Remote Sensing Workshop for Fisheries Application" from June 16th-20th, 2008, in Ancona, Italy.

GEOWeb Consult Services is offering the following two GIS Couses at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, FL.

The Southwest Florida ArcGIS Users Group will be holding a meeting from 8:30am - 1:00pm today (Thursday - May 8th, 2008) at the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council office located at 1926 Victoria Avenue in Fort Myers, FL.

The Florida Utility User Group (GIS for Utilities) will be holding their next meeting Thursday - May 15th, 2008 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 Treasure Coast GIS User Group invites GIS users and interested individuals to their next meeting, to be held at 2:30pm, Thursday, May 22nd , 2008.

Geographic Technologies Group® (GTG®) was selected for multiple software contracts including:

CycloMedia Technology B.V., the leader in large-scale, systematic visualizations of the environment has selected ERDAS Image Manager to manage, edit and deliver their 60Tb of 10cm aerial photography data of the Netherlands, being collected this year.

 
The Seven Hills Regional User Group for GIS (SHRUG) has announced early registration fees and dates for the Seventh Annual SHRUG GIS Workshop - "GIS Revolution " to be held on November 19th - 20th, 2008 in Tallahassee, FL.

I was recently informed of a Florida study entitled "Detecting an Association between Socioeconomic Status and Late Stage Breast Cancer Using Spatial Analysis and Area-Based Measures" which used GIS analysis to identify areas of higher-than-expected incidences of the cancer throughout the state.

An article by Dr. Greg Kearney in the May 2008 issue of the Journal of Environmental Health has detailed how Florida GIS data was used for analysis purposes in detecting childhood center clusters near hazardous waste sites throughout Florida.

Aurora, CO — The Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) has issued a Call for Presentations with relaxed requirements from previous years for its 2009 Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference, slated for April 19-22, at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, FL.

Some interesting reading if you have the time in regards to Senate Bill (S1838).

GPServ, Inc. will be offering their ArcPad 7 or GeoCollector for Mobile GIS 2 Day Course in Jacksonville, FL on June 2nd - 3rd, 2008 and in Orlando, FL on June 5th - 6th, 2008.

The Broward County GIS Users Group will be holding their monthly meeting this Wednesday - April 30th, 2008.