Please join us for our next big event...
March 5-7, 2012 Hawaii Pacific GIS Conference
“Geospatial - It’s Everywhere”
Conference Information
Registration Information (regular registration through February 27, 2012)
Conference Presentations (presentations still accepted on a space available basis)
Sponsors/Exhibitors Information
New on the 2010 Census Geographic Products website as of April 29, 2011:
2010 Census Geographic Products main page:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/2010census
2010 Census Tract Relationship Files: now with Population & Housing Unit
counts
2010 Census & Census 2000 Substantially Changed census tract files
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/2010census/tract_rel/tract_rel.html
Downloading Data for the 2010 Census from the new American FactFinder to use with the
TIGER/Line Shapefiles
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/wwtl/wwtl.html
Direct link to PDF document
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/wwtl/brochures/DownloadingAFFData.pdf
Historical State Centers of Population: 1880 - 2010
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/2010census/centerpop2010/historical/historical_centerpop.html
If you have any questions about these or any other geographic products
please contact the Geographic Products Branch at
geo.geography [at] census.gov
or
(301) 763-1128.
National Hydrography Dataset Users
April 15, 2011. The newest version of sub-region 2002 (Maui) distributed by the USGS, is now available (go to the NHD ftp server and look for filename:
NHDH2002_92v200_15Apr2011.zip). This personal geodatabase is in geographic coordinates. The geodatabase is available in UTM zone 4N from the Statewide GIS data layers website. Contact me if you would like the database in another projection.
NHD ftp server (filename: NHDH2002_92v200_15Apr2011.zip)
If you have comments or questions on the NHD please contact me.
Malie Beach-Smith
National Hydrography Dataset Principal Steward for the State of Hawaii
Environmental Planning Office, Hawaii Department of Health
919 Ala Moana Blvd. Rm 312, Honolulu, HI 96814
p:
808.586.4377 l f:
808.586.4370 l e:
malie.beach-smith [at] doh.hawaii.gov
COGNA 2011 Conference iin Honolulu -- October 25-29 at Ala Moana Hotel
The
Hawai‘i Board on Geographic Names (HBGN) is pleased to be hosting and cordially invites you to the next
Council of Geographic Names Authorities (COGNA) conference on
October 25-29, 2011 at the Ala Moana Hotel in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. The HBGN is a proactive Board having diacritically corrected over 8,000 Hawaiian place names found on the 1980 and 1990 series of US Geological Survey 1:24,000 topographic maps and are currently poised to address several other issues including reviewing and diacritically correcting the remaining, unresolved place names in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), launching our new website on Hawaiian place names modeled after the Coeur d‘Alene Native Names project, and beginning to process several new name applications as a result of the research completed for the website.
Since nearly 80% of the place names in Hawai‘i have a Hawaiian specific name component derived from the Indigenous population in these Islands, we are well aware of the issues confronting the US Board on Geographic Names with regard to Native Names Policy. We look forward to having an opportunity to share our lessons learned while gaining insights from the different perspectives of the COGNA membership on this and other issues.
HIGICC is a private non-profit organization of professionals and students from the federal, state, county, education, and private sectors of Hawai'i's GIS community. Our goal is to provide coordination of GIS activities among a wide range of GIS users in order to avoid duplication of effort, promote data sharing, and maintain data standards throughout the state.
HIGICC strives to bring together and continue to build the geographic community into a cohesive, recognized coordinating body that facilitates the use, development, sharing, and management of geographic data and communicates the value of geographic information to citizens and decision-makers. In the State of Hawaii, GIS is recognized and effectively used as an invaluable tool by the government, business and the citizens for understanding and managing our aina (environment). The Hawaii GICC is a shared mechanism for the diverse community to identify, explore, and solve problems using geospatial technology and information.
