| 03/10/98 RMIUG Meeting
- Mapping on the Internet
(Please note - as mentioned earlier, RMIUG
has a new location for 1998! We are going
back to our original meeting place, The
National Center for Atmospheric Research
(NCAR) in Boulder. Our sincere thanks go
to NCAR for use of their facilities.)
The Tuesday, March 10th meeting of the
Rocky Mountain Internet Users Group will
feature a presentation called "Mapping on
the Internet," an interesting look into
locating, creating and using maps on the
Net, along with some of the history and
evolution of this technology. Colorado is
widely known as a knowledge center for geographic
information systems, satellite and mapping
technology, and our panel of four experts
will help us better understand how mapping
is being used on the Internet.
Joan Blake (jblake@mapquest.com),
Director of Communications at MapQuest will
discuss how maps are being created for and
used by consumers on the Internet. Sol Katz
(skatz@blm.gov),
GIS Specialist/Webmaster at the US Bureau
of Land Management (BLM), will discuss some
of the history and evolution of mapping
technology and discuss the work that BLM
is doing in this field. Kevin Andrew (kandrew@infonow.com),
Chief Financial Officer at InfoNow, will
discuss how corporate customers are employing
mapping technology on large web sites. Finally,
David Fosdeck (dfosdeck@esri.com),
who works in technical marketing at Environmental
Systems Research Institute, will talk about
geographic information systems and applications
that are enabling people to create and publish
maps on the Internet. Join us for an interesting
evening, and bring lots of questions for
our expert panel!
URL's of interest:
The meeting is Tuesday, March 10th from
7:00 - 9:00 pm (with optional 6:30 pm start
for refreshments and informal networking).
The meeting will be held at The National
Center for Atmospheric Research (note: new
location!) at 1850 Table Mesa Drive in Boulder,
which is located on the west end of Table
Mesa Drive, up the hill, right under the
Flatirons. For door-to-door driving direction,
go to MapQuest (http://www.mapquest.com/
), click on TripQuest, enter your starting
address, NCAR's address, and voila! Park
in the NCAR lot, go in the main door, and
ask the guard to point you to meeting, which
is held in the main auditorium, right off
the lobby. The meeting is free and open
to the public, but we may pass the hat to
help defray expenses.
RMIUG appreciates the ongoing support
from XOR Network Engineering (http://www.xor.com)
for administration of RMIUG's electronic
discussion lists & WWW site. Thanks also
to NDA (http://www.nda.com)
for sponsorship of refreshments for our
group.
Consultants and companies are invited
to bring Internet-related product information,
brochures, and business cards which will
be displayed on an information table.
There is an email mailing list set up
for this group. General information can
be obtained by sending an Email to rmiug@rmiug.org
which will generate an auto-reply message
that tells you about the lists and how to
subscribe. You can also reach the RMIUG
"Executive" Committee at rmiug-comm@rmiug.org.
Our WWW site is at http://www.rmiug.org/rmiug/
Tentative schedule of upcoming RMIUG meetings:
- May 12: Panel discussion on ADSL and
high speed Internet access
- July 14: Hot Internet startups in Colorado
- panel of CEO's/founders
- Sept: (pending) Secrets of the Pros
on Maintaining HUGE Web Sites, a behind-the-scenes
peek at large, well-known web sites by
the experts who maintain them
- Nov: TBA
(To suggest a topic, send your idea to
rmiug-comm@rmiug.org)
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