Has it been that long?

Its been almost two months from the last blog entry. This tends to be EWUG's downtime (The conference is a long way away). We've also been busy with several end-of-the year projects, and the blog tends to keep getting pushed off (much like GIS projects for too many organizations).

Meanwhile, the Wisconsin Mapping Bulletin is doing a great job with Wisconsin GIS news. (A GIS tenet is to reduce redundancy, so I don't want to repeat the information I see in the WMB.) There is now quite a few ESRI news feeds and blogs that are useful. (The podcasts can be helpful, but I would recommend listening-in during lunch or a long geoprocessing task rather than dedicating time.)

My favorite by far is the Mapping Center Blog (and site for that matter!). Every time I read it, I begin to wish I was able to spend more time on cartography and map-making rather than geodatabase design and configurations. But then I quickly remember that making the map often takes much longer than the geospatial analysis. I'm curious if any of the ideas/solutions brought forth in the Mapping Center will make their way to WLIA's Poster Contest.

Soon after WLIA is over with EWUG will start to ramp up again getting ready for this year's conference. So be patient, more is yet to come...