Surveying, Mapping and GIS

Despite the snow, I laugh in the face of the snow and am still anticipating a decent turnout at the 2010 ESRI Federal User Conference (FedUC). At present, it sounds like a lot of my own federal colleagues are still planning on attending, as are various friends, geobloggers, geotweeple and so on... It has rapidly become the east-coast version of the San Diego ESRI International User Conference, with solid attendance not just by feds, but by a wide variety of others as well. The agenda, again a mix of technical GIS topics and where GIS is being used in a wide variety of business domains, along with a collection of special interest group meetings. I will generally be following an environmental science track, along with a few excursions into other areas.

It is being held once again at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, February 17-19th, although I will be arriving today, for various meetings around Washington today and tomorrow, and a few throughout the FedUC as well. Free for feds to attend, relatively cheap for others...

I hope to be able to post here and there from the FedUC, depending on connectivity and power availability (my workhorse laptop no longer holds a charge as it used to) - as well as the periodic blips from Twitter...

And if you are in the DC area, but are NOT attending the ESRI Federal User Conference, then here's a definite to keep an eye out for: #geoglobaldomination - essentially, just an ad-hoc, twitter-organized, vendor-neutral, platform-agnostic gathering of geospatial folks getting together over a few beers to discuss esoterics and idiosyncrasies of the geospatial business...

It will be fun!