Western Association of
Map Libraries

45th Anniversary 

WAML 2012 Meeting University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii
October 30 - November 2, 2012

Tech Mosaic  -  August 7th

PacIOOS  -   August 14th - recording

The Nature Conservancy  -   August 16th - recording

Pacific Disaster Center  -  August 21st - recording

Hawaii Biodiversity and Mapping  -  August 23rd

Spatial Data Analysis and Visualization Labs  -  August 28th - recording

Aloha from the new board.

Members are; Abe Coughlin, Malie Beach-Smith, Craig Clouet, Joan Delos Santos, Isla Young, Sam Aruch, Rich Nezelek. Missing from photo; Christin Reynolds, Dan McNulty-Huffman, Derek Masaki.

2012-2013 Officers; President Craig Clouet, Vice President Isla Young, Treasurer Malie Beach-Smith, Secretary Christin Reynolds

The Mark Lierman Memorial Scholarship Awards are two $1,000 scholarships that recognize deserving students who have demonstrated an appreciation for and understanding of geospatial data and  geographic information systems (GIS). The deadline for applications has passed. The Scholarship Committee is reviewing the applications that were received and will pass on its recommendations to the Board in the next few weeks. This year's criteria can be viewed and downloaded here:

This years awards go to

Kathyrn Massaro (Undergraduate) & Erik Franklin (graduate)

New versions of Hawaii Island and Oahu were released by the USGS in December 2011. The new versions contain updates to GNIS names and IDs.

The datasets are available for download in geographic coordinates at the National Hydrography Dataset’s Pre-Staged Subregions ftp site:

ftp://nhdftp.usgs.gov/DataSets/Staged/SubRegions/PersonalGDB/HighResolution

Reprojected datasets in UTMzone 4N are available from the Hawaii State GIS Program web site (http://hawaii.gov/dbedt/gis). Please contact Malie Beach-Smith (malie.beach-smith [at] doh.hawaii.gov) for assistance in obtaining reprojected datasets in Albers, State Plane, or others, or for comments and questions.

Hawaii Pacific GIS Conference March 5-7, 2012

HIGICC, the Hawaii State GIS Program and the Hawaii Coastal Zone Management Program jointly sponsored the Hawaii Pacific GIS Conference which was held March 5-7, 2012 at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Presentation slides are now available online through slideshare.  Click here to see the available presentations.

Sponsors/Exhibitors helped make our conference possible.  Mahalo! Click here to see who they are.