Bay Area Earthquake Alliance - Quarterly Meeting

1st Quarterly Meeting, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Golden Gate Club / The Presidio / San Francisco, CA
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The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the new Alliance and it’s goal to stimulate information sharing about earthquakes, preparedness and mitigation among decision-makers, local, state, and federal governments, historians, educators, scientists and engineers, emergency responders, business and industry leaders, and the public sector.

Geospatial Coordination Web Site Launched by California Natural Resources Agency

The Cal-Atlas site facilitates the coordinated and sustainable development, maintenance, licensing and sharing of geospatial data and web map services by California government agencies, partners and stakeholders. California government agencies work with the California GIS Council, regional GIS collaboratives and the broader California GIS community to define the data architecture, systems, standards, agreements and processes for a fully integrated and effective California Spatial Data Infrastructure. GO THERE

The new Web site will centralize a variety of data and information. Cal-Atlas provides a number of important Web accessible services. These include:

* A catalog for use by organizations to categorize and share information about their geospatial information resources (e.g., maps and geospatial data, Web services and applications)
* A library from which interested parties may obtain Geographic Information System (GIS) data and where agencies can place their data to share with others
* Tools to make it easy to find GIS data and services
* A "gallery" of maps and mapping sites contributed by Cal-Atlas users
* A portal to help organizations work together on GIS data and share the costs of acquiring imagery and other kinds of geospatial data.

San Francisco is not prepared for next quake ...

A report by the San Francisco Planning & Urban Research Association (SPUR) concludes San Francisco's buildings and infrastructure are fundamentally unprepared to handle the next big earthquake. READ MORE

SPUR Report