April 24: UD Mapathon

On Wednesday, April 24, UD GIS is hosting the third annual UD Mapathon. Everyone is welcome to attend, no experience needed. Mapathons are our way of getting more people involved, promoting free and open data, and garnering excitement about mapping. It is a way of...

April 9: Coffee Hour!

On Tuesday, April 9 from 10-11:30AM, UD GIS will host a coffee hour in 304 Pearson Hall (Studio C). Everyone is welcome to attend. Those who would like to join remotely can participate via Zoom.   Join via ZOOM MEETING AGENDA – GIS presentation by Jim...

December 9: FirstMap down for upgrades

The FirstMap infrastructure, including ArcGIS Server and databases, will be upgraded to ArcGIS 10.4.1 on Friday, December 9 beginning at 5:00 pm. All FirstMap Private and Public services and databases will be inaccessible beginning at 5:00 pm until approximately 10:00...

Important changes to Esri ArcGIS licensing at UD

    Beginning January 2017 there will be a new ArcGIS Desktop License Server. If you are connected to the old license server your software will no longer function. To avoid any interruption in service submit the “Request for Service – IT Software Licenses”...

QGIS

Quantum GIS is our recommendation for an open source GIS package.  It wraps Grass functionality and includes many native tools and plugins as well.  Here is our writeup on the topic. .. and in the appendix are GIS functions with their associated plugins and...