BAAMA is hosting a members Trivia Night! First ever, at Bec's in Berkeley (formerly Becket's) on February 16th, 6-8pm. Food and drinks provided. 

http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/winter1112articles/gis-day-2011-celebrates-in-style.html  (Page 40 of the print version)

Happy Holidays!

Unfortunately, in the busy shuffle that is the holiday season the 2011 BAAMA holiday party has been lost - which means that BAAMA will not be having a 2011 holiday party (although it will be back in 2012!).

However, BAAMA will be sponsoring a social event in February 2012:
GIS Trivia Night. Start studying now! Time, date and place TBD.
Stay tuned.

 

The BAAMA Journal is a biannual publication that serves to highlight San Francisco Bay Area geospatial people, technology, applications, projects, and maps!

Volume 5, Issue 2 - Fall 2011

Low Resolution (PDF, 150dpi, 8.12 MB)

High Resolution (PDF, 300 dpi, 23.75 MB)

 

 

 

Enjoy!

Talk #1 by Karin Tuxen-Bettman from Google Earth Outreach
Google Mapping Tips for the Neogeographer(PDF)

Talk #3 by Dan Glusenkamp from CalFlora
Calflora’s integrated mapping and platform: nimble data collection devices, shared cloud databases, and robust web mappers to serve citizens, scientists, and conservation professionals.

Talks #2 by Michal Migurski from Stamen Design
Data-Driven Neogeography (PDF)

The BAAMA Journal is excited to announce a new Map Gallery feature in our Fall 2011 issue.  We call on all amateur and professional cartographers to submit your favorite map for publication.  We encourage everyone with a passion for mapmaking – students, GIS specialists, RS image analysts, senior managers, moonlighting executives – to contribute his or her map to The BAAMA Journal. 

 

Map Gallery Submission Guidelines:

1)      Maps must be authored by a Bay Area resident or feature a Bay Area location.   

2)      Maps may be larger than 8.5 x 11 inches but will most likely be scaled down.  Outstanding maps may be published at approximately 11x17 inches.

3)      Greyscale or color graphics are acceptable. File color must be CMYK.

4)      Files can be submitted in the following formats: Native Adobe Application Files in PC format, High Resolution (recommended 300 dpi) .JPG, .TIF, .EPS, or .PDF.

5)      Maps should be sent to editor@baama.org

SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

FALL 2011 ISSUE - OCTOBER 1, 2011

SPRING 2012 ISSUE - MARCH 1, 2012

We would like everyone in the BAAMA community and beyond to feel comfortable about contributing to this new feature in The Journal; as such, the submission guidelines are flexible.  In future publications, we may alter Map Gallery submission guidelines to accommodate the changing needs of The BAAMA Journal.

 

Thank you.

The Urban Drainage Model: SF DPW uses LiDAR DEM and a Custom Algorithm for Delineating Drainage Catchments and Hydrologic Modeling

Summary: This article describes how the San Francisco Department of Public Works used a very high-resolution digital elevation model to study urban storm water hydraulics. The base data came from a 1-meter horizontal resolution LiDAR aerial survey of San Francisco that was acquired in June 2007. The FBI ordered the survey prior to that year’s baseball All-Star game for use in security analysis, and provided the data to the city for free after the event.

BAAMA has just created a "Educational Membership". Here are the details:


1) The bundle administrator is in charge of administering the membership. This means that the bundle administrator must enter all of his/her students into the database. This is EASY to do, but the labor is with the bundle administrator (the person that pays the membership).

2) The student attending the BAAMA event MUST be on the membership list. This does not mean the student must register for the meeting. However the student MUST be entered into the database and part of the school's educational membership list. The folks running the registration desk will check the school's membership list. If the student is not on the list, they will need to pay the $10.00 charge to attend the meeting.

3) The student must show a current student ID at the registration desk the day of the educational meeting.

You can sign up for the new membership at http://www.baama.org/membership

If you don't currently receive BAAMA emails, you can now subscribe to the email list online. When you subscribe, you will receive notification of upcoming BAAMA events and when each version of the BAAMA Journal is released. To be added to the email list, go to http://www.baama.org/email_list_journal