CGIA is thrilled to announce our Professional Development Speaker Series and Workshop, aimed at fostering the growth of GIS professionals and enhancing career prospects in the industry. This session serves as a continuation of our initial discussion, which delved deeply…
Nominations are LIVE!
Exciting News: Nominations are Now Open for the California Geographic Information Association (CGIA) Awards Program, Celebrating 30 Years of Excellence!
The Tober family began working with Parcelquest in 2006. Denise initially started because Parcelquest needed someone to read the legals and draw the cadastral maps for Trinity County and that position quickly turned full-time with the addition of the maintenance of the statewide parcel basemaps. Trisha was brought on to help create a few of the actual county parcels that did not exist at that time which are still used today. Tracy was brought on shortly after to help with the parcel basemap maintenance.
Donna Miranda-Begay is a CGIA Board Member – Tribal Representative. Her Tribal affiliation is Tubatulabal, Paiute, Tule River Yokut, and Dine’. She is founder of the new non-profit CA Tribal GIS.
In working with both California Native American Tribes (federally and non-federally recognized) and State government, Donna recognized the need to have Tribal Lands on public government maps. She worked with several state Tribal Liaisons who often asked, “how can we better work with Tribes?”. Donna’s response would be “place tribal lands on your department maps...
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California Geographic Information Association (CGIA) is a non-profit, statewide association formed in 1994 to facilitate coordination, collaboration, and advocacy for California’s Geographic Information System (GIS) community. CGIA promotes the creation and maintenance of the best practices in the governance and application of geographic information within the State of California that can become a model for the nation.
CGIA Conversation Webinar #3: Rural Equity and GIS
Please join us for the the third session of CGIA’s Conversation Series on GIS & Equity. Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrc-uupzkoEtNscY_Jc7baO7-okzBctChG Rural areas of California face unique challenges in comparison to their urban counterparts. In this conversation we will talk with Kelly…
2024 CGIA Awards – Nominations are LIVE!
Exciting News: Nominations are Now Open for the California Geographic Information Association (CGIA) Awards Program, Celebrating 30 Years of Excellence! https://cgia.org/about-cgia/cgia-awards-program/ We’re thrilled to kick off the 2024 California Geographic Information Association (CGIA) Awards Program, commemorating not only excellence in…
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