• Meet Julie Hoff

Benchmarks: People & Jobs

• Salim Mohammed joins the University of Hawaii staff.

New Maps of the WAML Region

• December
• January

Other Map Organization Journals

• Coordinates (MAGERT)
• NEMO Newsletter
• Australian Map Circle
  Newsletter

• See what went on at the WAML Meeting in Pasadena!
  Photos were sent in by Wendie Helms, Julie Sweetkind-Singer, and Mary Douglass.
  Linda Zellmer, Mabel Suzuki and Cynthia Jahns received the WAML Awards for 2007.


• WAML Scanning Projects Clearinghouse: Matt has added the "format" field to the search boxes.


• Want a beautiful dynamic image of the earth on your desktop?
  Check out EarthDesk 4.0.


• Microsoft announced that it will begin to update its Virtual Earth online mapping platform with more than 400,000 square miles of new aerial imagery of the United States under an agreement with GlobeXplorer, a provider of aerial and satellite images. The imagery is supplied by AirPhotoUSA and distributed by GlobeXplorer under a long-standing agreement between the two companies. Virtual Earth powers Microsoft's Live Search Maps service. Microsoft and GlobeXplorer plan to integrate the new imagery into Virtual Earth over the next several months.


• Ross Togashi, map technician par excellence, is also a very talented photographer. View the web page showcasing his current exhibits.

• NEMO meets in June in NYC.
  The preliminary program is on their web site.


• Practice your French on your cartographic confrères at the 2007 ACMLA conference to be located at McGill University,
  in downtown Montréal, Québec, May 9-13.
  For the registration form please go to:
  http://www.ssc.uwo.ca/assoc/acml/McGill/registration.html


• Future WAML Meetings:
  • Denver, October 24-27, 2007
  • Las Vegas, early March 2008
  • San Diego, Fall 2008

• GeoGratis is a portal provided by the Earth Sciences Sector (ESS) of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) which provides geospatial data at no cost via your Web browser.

• Global warming: New set of maps reveals how melting polar ice could change the San Francisco shoreline.


• Los Angeles County Historic Topo maps : Matt Fox reported to MAPS-L that he created a file of 150 high resolution maps covering all 4,000 square miles of Los Angeles County from 1920s through the 1940s.
  Just open this KML file with Google Earth 4:
  http://www.fox-fam.com/topos/topos.kmz


• New at the David Rumsey web site: Rand, McNally & Co.'s Business Atlas. 1897.


• Forest Service Maps Price Increase, 3-1-07, from MAPS-L.