State and Local Government

Last week I attended Bentley System's "Be Inspired" Awards Conference where the company presents the finalists and award winners for the top engineering and infrastructure projects submitted from around the world. Having adjudicated this competition in past years, I can tell you from personal experiece that the imagination, creativity and hard work that goes into these projects are true examples of human ingenuity.

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Ashley Liddiard currently works at the USGS as an administrative operations assistant. She's a recent graduate of Regis University with a B.A. in Politics and a B.A. in Music and is pursuing a bookkeeping clerk certificate at Red Rocks Community College. In this article she explains how she got her position at USGS and what's ahead.

This past summer,

URISA’s 50th anniversary event, GIS-Pro 2012, celebrated the past in a respectful, conservative way with familiar themes, presenters and awardees. Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg asks, does this provide a glimpse into its next 50 years?

Human activity in the Puget Sound region of Washington State has caused an uptick in the nitrogen level fueling algae growth. But how can this urgent environmental challenge be communicated to the general public? Students in the University of Washington’s Master’s Program in GIS created a solution.

Local governments have been quite successful in capitalizing on the applications of geospatial technology to improve citizen services and recognize savings, and businesses across industries can benefit from following their lead.  This article is a quick look at how web mapping is helping government improve communications and services.

Destination Spatial is the latest strategy to draw attention to the need for geospatial practitioners, and to guide students and job changers toward those careers. This effort, launched in Queensland, Australia, is picking up steam and now supports all of Australia and New Zealand. Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg details what makes it different from previous approaches.

A survey of companies that employ geospatial works reveals U.S. organizations’ current and future hiring plans.

President Obama signed