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UW Consortium for Geographic Information and Analysis

The University of Washington Consortium for Geographic Information and Analysis (UWCGIA) is an organization for everyone at the UW who uses GIS, remote sensing, and related technolgies. This site, and its related page on GIS courses offered at the UW, provides links to people and units at the UW who are using these technologies, in an attempt to further collaboration with each other, and to share what we are doing with those outside the UW.

GIS data

WAGDA
A repository of GIS data at the UW Libraries

gis.ess.washington.edu
Another great repository of GIS data at the UW run by Harvey

ArcGIS License Server Planned Outages

Overview:

The ArcGIS license server and software distribution site will be unavailable during two upcoming power shutdowns on Feb 7th, and 23rd-24th. This may affect you if you are using lic-arcgis.gis.washington.edu as your only license server. The power shutdown has been requested by the University of Washington High Voltage shop to perform urgent maintenance.

When:

  • Thursday Feb 7th, 6AM through Thursday Feb 7th, 8AM
  • Saturday Feb 23rd, 7AM through Sunday Feb 24th, 5PM

Details:

2013 ESRI User Conference Complimentary Registration request

Fri, 01/11/2013 - 12:02 — phurvitz

2013 ESRI User Conference

This year's ESRI User Conference (once again in sunny San Diego, California) is coming soon. Dates are:

July 6-9, 2013 (Educational Conference)
July 8-12, 2013 (General Conference)

Educational institution attendees who are registered for the General UC can attend the Educational UC at no additional cost.

The Washington State Institutions of Public Higher Education (WIPHE) site license gives us 16 seats, as apportioned below:

ESRI User Conference Complimentary Registration request

Thu, 04/26/2012 - 11:17 — phurvitz

2012 ESRI User Conference

This year's ESRI User Conference (once again in sunny San Diego, California) is coming soon. Dates are:

July 21-24, 2012 (Educational Conference)
July 23-27, 2012 (General Conference)

Educational institution attendees who are registered for the General UC can attend the Educational UC at no additional cost.

The Washington State Institutions of Public Higher Education (WIPHE) site license gives us 16 seats, as apportioned below:

I'm getting warnings that ArcGIS will stop working in a few days! HEEEEEEELLLLPPPPP MEEEEE!

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 12:44 — phurvitz

If you are seeing messages about ArcGIS timing out on a computer on which you are running your own license server, please do me a favor and read this entire script. PLEASE SIGN UP FOR MESSAGES ON UW-GIS-L. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.

 

On 9/29/2001 Phil Hurvitz wrote:

Site licensed ESRI software

Tue, 09/13/2011 - 07:57 — phurvitz

The current list of site licensed software is available at http://www.esri.com/industries/university/academic_programs/pdf/site-license-overview.pdf.
 
Site licensed software can be installed on UW-owned equipment only.
 

Best Practices for Installing ArcGIS Desktop on a Mac

Tue, 08/16/2011 - 10:09 — lwrogers

From ESRI Canada a best practices document on how to install ArcGIS Desktop on a Mac:
http://www.esricanada.com/k12_docs/BP_ArcGIS_on_Mac.pdf

Geocoding in King County

Mon, 05/09/2011 - 11:37 — phurvitz

A description of why address ranges do not work for geocoding addresses in King County, and why you should use parcel address points instead.

2011 ESRI International User Conference

Wed, 03/09/2011 - 16:12 — lwrogers

It is once again time to dole out the registrations to the ESRI user conference. One can't really beat "70 hours to hear brilliant ideas shared by leaders and peers."

Conference details:

http://www.esri.com/events/user-conference

To request a registration:

http://gis.washington.edu/esri/uc/

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