Low Distortion Projections for Iowa: RFP is now on line!

Norman Miller, the Survey manager for the office of Design at Iowa DOT, has announced that the LDP Request for Proposal has been posted at http://www.prof-tech-consultant.dot.state.ia.us/asp/openRFP/proposal_detail.asp?RFPid=231 Submission deadline is Feb.…

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Geodetic Committee Meeting 11/19/2012

Minutes to the last Geodetic Committee meeting may be found at the following link. Our focus was the RFP to design new Low Distortion Projections for the state of Iowa.…

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IGIC Board Election Results 2010

Congratulations to the newly elected sector representatives for the 2010 – 2012 IGIC Board of Directors.   Every two years IGIC’s membership selects sector representatives to serve a two year…

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Clearinghouse Committee Meeting Fall 2008

Oct 1, 2008 10:00 – 11:30 AM Conference Call Present: Patrick Wilke-Brown, Iowa DNR, Chair Jim Giglierano, Iowa DNR Micah Cutler, Franklin and Hardin County Gregg Hadish, NRCS Kevin Kane,…

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Historic Sanborn Fire Maps

Earlier this year, a colleague mentioned to me the availability of historic fire maps available for communities across Iowa that were accessible via the State Library of Iowa. From the…

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Microsoft Virtual Earth updates

For those of you who haven’t seen the update posted for this month, Microsoft has updated their imagery to the Virtual Earth platform. This new update consists of 27.32 TB…

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The Iowa Caucuses

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…

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