The Durango GIS Group meets for regular Mappy Hour the first Mondays of every month at 5:30 pm at EsoTerra Ciderworks, 558 Main Ave, Durango, Colorado. If you'd like to present on a topic, please let me know in advance. As always, we'll have a screen and projector, and of course delicious charcuterie and hard and NA cider is available for sale.
We also have special events and demos throughout the area! Check the Events calendar for details!
When: 5:30 pm, Monday, July 7
EsoTerra Ciderworks, 558 Main Ave, Durango
Please Join us for casual networking and live presentations!
Contact Anna if you'd like to present or share your work!
Check the Events calendar for details!
Extra credit: Where on this 1919 Sanborn map is the meeting?
Source: Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Durango, La Plata County, Colorado. Sanborn Map Company, Oct, 1919. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn00987_008/.
When: 5:30 pm, Monday, May 5
EsoTerra Ciderworks, 558 Main Ave, Durango
Please Join us for casual networking and live presentations!
Contact Anna if you'd like to present or share your work!
Check the Events calendar for details!
When: 5:30 pm, Monday, April 7
EsoTerra Ciderworks, 558 Main Ave, Durango
Max Molello will share an ArcGIS Experience Builder app he put together for Durango Trail highlighting trail conditions, difficulty, and access. Please Join us for casual networking and live presentations!
Check the Events calendar for details!
When: 5:30 pm, Monday, March 3
EsoTerra Ciderworks, 558 Main Ave, Durango
Join us for casual networking and live presentations!
Check the Events calendar for details!
Women in GIS Lightning Talk. This recurring event is held on First Fridays 12 pm Pacific Time. Come see how others are using GIS to analyze data, make maps, tells stories, research, and more! Open to everyone! Membership not required.
When: February 7, 2025. 1 pm Mountain Time
What: Anna will be giving the following Lightning Talk at this online Women in GIS event!
So You Want a Map? Key Questions for a Refined Bid.
This lightning talk will explore some questions I ask when a client approaches me for a custom map project. By clarifying their goals, audience, and constraints, these questions help me to define the project scope, ensure alignment with client expectations, and help me to deliver an accurate bid.
Anna Riling with Four Corners Mapping demoed an ArcGIS Web Experience Builder App, Colorado Stream Needs, a simple, light-weight web map app to explore data related to surface water resources in Colorado. February 4, 2025.
We had some out of town visitors from Esri, and Andrea Santoro, GIS Specialist with Jefferson County, shared a series of StoryMaps she's been working on for the Community Wildfire Protection Plan. January 6, 2025.
Anna Riling, Owner of Four Corners Mapping & GIS, presents on her work attempting to "bend" a DEM to produce an oblique panoramic map. Note her adoring gaze as she talks about Tom Patterson, now-retired NPS cartographer extraordinaire. This took place at the January 2023 meeting.
David Siddle, Geospatial MGIS-SUE Sales Representative with Frontier Precision, demo's some fun field tools from Trimble at the August 2023 event.
We were treated to a tour of the Animas Valley TopoTable! Scott Robert's at Mountain Studies Institute gave an after hours presentation of the TopoTable at the Durango Water Treatment Plant at Santa Rita Park. This took place at the meeting on August 6, 2023.