• Meet Greg Armento

Benchmarks: People & Jobs

• New WAML members!
• Mary Larsgaard receives OLAC award
• Vi Moorhouse, GPO Map Cataloger, retires
• Don't forget: WAML has a Jobs Blog!

New Maps of the WAML Region

• June
• July

Other Map Organization Journals

• Coordinates (MAGERT)
• NEMO Newsletter
• Cartographic Perspectives (NACIS)
• Australian Map Circle
  Newsletter

• WAML Election results!


• Have you registered for the Fall WAML Meeting in Denver?
  Download the registration form, and register by October 12th.


• Report on this summer's ESRI Conference by Anne Zald.


• American Geographical Society Library Fellowships for 2008 are available.


• Western Forest Fires: A very useful list of links to web sites, created by David Bertuca.


• USGS and NASA released the TerraLook Data Product, a
  user-specified collection of JPEG images created from Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) images from the NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center, and Tri-Decadal Global Landsat Orthorectified images from the USGS archive.
  
  TerraLook images are designed for visual interpretation and display, and are of value to anyone who wants to see the changes to the Earth’s surface over the last 30 years.


• More USGS news: Historic Map Scan Loader Application: Work has begun on a new "loader" application that will allow historic map scan products in GeoPDF format to be added to the Geospatial Data Architecture and made accessible via the USGS Store's Map Locator interface. This work is being conducted as a cooperative effort between Jeff Wendel, SIS, and Steve Skelton, National Geospatial Technical Operations Center (NGTOC), and will serve the needs of both historic map scans and eventual graphic products from The National Map. Emailed to maps-l by John C. Fouke, NSN SILS Chief on 9 Aug 2007.


• Free NACIS membership to ten undergraduate students majoring in geography. Check it out here. NACIS is the North American Cartographic Information Society.


• Marine Geodesy, An International Journal of Ocean Surveys, Mapping, and Sensing, published by Taylor & Francis, encourages submission of proposals of special issues and papers. Here's the whole scoop on topics, etc.

• NACIS 2007 will be held in Saint Louis
  October 10-13, 2007, at the Hilton St. Louis Frontenac.


• Free Seminar on Geoscience Librarianship set for October 27 in Denver by the Geoscience Information Society. The GIS meeting will follow the WAML meeting in Denver, from October 28-31. (If they wear costumes on the 31st, someone please take pictures!)


• “Digital Scholarship/Digital Libraries” in Atlanta, Georgia, in November, focuses on GIS applications in digital scholarship.


• Future WAML Meetings:
  • Denver, October 24-27, 2007
  • Las Vegas, March 12-15, 2008
  • San Diego, Fall 2008
  • Salt Lake City, Spring 2009

• Still suffering from the summer heat? Read about snowpack at the new Climate section of the online Atlas of Canada. Si vous parlez français, cliquez ici.
  

• Green Trails Maps - where you can buy a set of placemats showing the Cascades volcanoes, as well as some nice maps.
  They're working on maps of the Santa Cruz, CA mountains.