Legislative proposals affect Land Information Program funding

Proposed changes to Wisconsin’s comprehensive planning law would permanently divert $2 million away from the long-standing funding program used by counties to support local land information activities.

Mark your calendar for the 2012 WLIA Annual Conference

The 25th edition of the largest statewide geospatial conference is headed to Stevens Point on February 15th – 17th.

UW collaborators to be honored for online air photo archive

Please join us for a ceremony honoring The Changing Landscapes of Wisconsin, A Digital Archive of Historic Aerial Photographs, a UW-sponsored project picked for the Governor’s Award for Archival Innovation.

USGS historic map scanning project has strong Wisconsin ties

Project Manager Greg Allord highlights some interesting Wisconsin connections to a major USGS initiative.

Thousands of historic topographic maps now available from USGS

Over 2,800 historic maps of Wisconsin available in GeoPDF format for free.

SCO annual report now available

Check out our accomplishments for our last fiscal year (July 2010 to June 2011), and our plans for the upcoming year.

New technical paper on Web cartography now available

Stuggling with the design and logic of your online maps? Check out our new technical paper called “Concepts and Methods for Rule-Based Web Cartography.”

NACIS coming to Madison

The annual gathering of cartographers and design experts lands in Madison October 12-14th.

UW-Madison cartography celebration set for October 15th

Save the date for a gathering of UW Cartography alumni, clients, and partners.

CORRECTION: State Agency GIS User meeting

A previous article on the subject said the date of the next Wisconsin State Agency GIS users group is September 17th.  The meeting is actually on September 7th.  Sorry for the mistake!  The original posting …