Below is a quick GIS job survey to understand what GIS professionals do in their respective industries.
Caitlin Dempsey
GIS Career and Jobs
GIS in Academia and Beyond Map Dashboard
Developed by Black Girls MAPP, a networking group that “connects and empowers women of color in the field of GIS”, has created a dashboard that lets users browse potential educational and Esri partnership opportunities.
GIS Career and Jobs
Women in GIS Networking Groups
Web sites with information specifically regarding peer support for women in GIS.
GIS Learning
Esri Debuts New Free Course on Spatial Data Science
Esri has unveiled a new massive open online course (MOOC) entitled, “Spatial Data Science: The New Frontier in Analytics.”
GIS Data
What is Snapping in GIS?
Snapping involves connecting a geometric vertex or edges of one feature to another when editing a GIS dataset.
GIS Industry
A Roundup of Geospatial Podcasts
Here’s a list of geospatial podcasts you can download and listen to.
GIS Data
What is a GeoTIFF?
A GeoTIFF is a public domain metadata standard which has the georeferencing information embedded within the image file.
GIS Data
Open Repository for Geospatial Training Data Released
Radiant Earth has launched Radiant MLHub, a cloud-based open library for training geospatial data used by machine learning algorithms.
GIS Data
Free Online Geocoder
Developed by LocalFocus, this online geocoder will generate lat/long coordinates for a list of addresses for free.
Maps and Cartography
Print and Assemble These Map Tree Ornaments
John Nelson from Esri has posted three map ornament templates you can print and assemble for your Christmas tree.