iowagic.net

The blog for the Iowa Geographic Information Council has moved to its new home: http://www.iowagic.net. Next goals include finding other posters (hint, hint) and integrating the look of the two iowagic sites a little tighter.

IGDC

What is the IGDC you ask? It is the Iowa Geospatial Data Clearinghouse. The "clearinghouse" is in the process of a redesign and also a relocation to a new url. The new url will be: http://www.iowagis.org/ and a big thank you goes out to Patrick Brown for all the work he has been putting in on redesigning the site.

Just one more thing to remember about the IGDC, a clearinghouse is only as effective and useful as the data that gets published to it. If you haven't taken the time to publish your metadata to the clearinghouse, get in contact with Patrick and he will be more than happy to walk you through the steps.

IGIC's new URL

After hearing input from folks over the last several years about the length of the IGIC URL, the Board of Directors at the last quarterly meeting decided to adopt a new (and hopefully) easier to remember URL for the organization. The new URL is: http://www.iowagic.org and while the old URL of http://igic.gis.iastate.edu is still around, you may want to go ahead and update your bookmarks now.