Auckland GIS Forum - News about GIS software, GPS systems, Spatial Analysis, Geodata, GIS Apps, Programming of GIS oriented solutions, NZ projects, NZ Start-Ups and much more.

1. WELCOME
at the 4rd meeting
May 14, 2015Melanie Langlotz Jaroslav Polacek
Augview GeoSystems

2. Auckland GIS Forum is all about YOU.
We are interested in your GIS projects, ideas, experience, stories and GIS news.
Share and discuss any news about GIS software, GPS systems, Spatial analysis,
Geodata, GIS apps, Programming of GIS oriented solutions, NZ projects or NZ
Start-Ups. The most interesting topics will be presented to the Auckland GIS
Community members at Auckland GIS Forum meetings.
Our VISION is to create a collaborative GIS Community in Auckland.
Frequency of meetings: 1x/month
Duration: 2 hours
GIS News and Job Opportunities, Presentations, Networking, …

3. GIS Specialist - Auckland Motorway Alliance (Full Time)
http://www.seek.co.nz/job/28631137
3+ years GIS experience, Leading teams, ArcGIS.
GIS Specialist (Full Time)
http://www.seek.co.nz/job/28589279
Consultancy approach, Experience with the ArcGIS
toolsets. Knowledge in web GIS development.
Graduate/Intermediate Engineers (Full Time)
http://www.seek.co.nz/job/28643918
Relational DB knowledge/interest in an SQL server, GIS.

4. WordMap.co
This experiment brings together
the power of Google Translate
and the collective knowledge of
Wikipedia to put into context the
relationship between language.
Try to enter the name of your
home country or the country you
would like to visit.
http://wordmap.co/

5. Geographic Information Science and
Technology Body of Knowledge
(GISTBoK)
The most comprehensive outline of the
concepts and skills unique to the
geospatial realm, including geographic
information systems, geographic
information science, remote sensing,
satellite navigation systems, and
cartography.
http://ucgis.org/sites/default/files/document-sharing-form-files/72/UCGIS2013_SkupinEtAl_Distribution.pdf

6. Compare two geographic features using
Comparea
Comparea lets you compare the area of
two geographic features (continents,
countries, states). Comparea uses the
Albers Equal Area conic projections, so
the comparison is valid and suffers from
minimal distortion.
http://www.comparea.org/

7. Did you know
that Australia is 29 times larger than New Zealand?

8. Geospatial Workshop
„A Full-stack Open Source Geospatial Strategy"
Spencer (Runshuo) Han - GIS Analyst at TDG