Register Now! The ISU GIS Facility will be hosting the 3rd annual geospatial summer workshop for K-12 teachers and pre-service teachers in Ames, Iowa on July 17 – 18, 2024. This workshop will show many geospatial tools and applications from the Esri ecosystem as well as Google Earth, OpenStreetMap, AmericaView, and others. Teachers will get
This spring the Iowa Geographic Map Server (IGMS) has released new and improved metadata as part of the IGMS data hub site. The upgraded metadata allows for better searching capabilities of IGMS data layers and also provides users with more documentation about the layers that they are viewing and using. Follow the link below to
The Iowa Geographic Map Server is a gem of historical and contemporary statewide aerial imagery for Iowa from the 1930s to 2021. It also has many other statewide layers including: Here’s your challenge: Zoom into your city or a place of significance to you and discover how it has changed over the years, look at
Celebrating 30 years of GIS at ISU today on GIS Day! We also celebrated the 50th anniversary of Landsat and were able to hand out playing cards, refreshments, posters, and other educational materials. This was a great opportunity for our staff in the GIS facility to share the work that they are doing, and teach
Six additional counties in western Iowa have been added to the 2020 LiDAR service: https://arcg.is/15eHuH0
Eight more counties in southwest Iowa have been added to the 2020 LiDAR services: https://arcg.is/1PfriS
Web services providing 2020 LiDAR for more of the state have been published. To date about 28 counties have been completed. https://arcg.is/1PfriS
The Iowa Orthoserver (also known as the Iowa Geographic Map Server) has a variety of resources available to enhance and serve users. Today we are highlighting the Aerial Photo Dates layer. This layer allows users to determine the date of a particular image. Here are the basic steps to using the Aerial Photo Dates layer
Iowa Statewide summer 2021 imagery is now available as a webservice from the Iowa Geographic Map Server. https://ortho.gis.iastate.edu/arcgis/rest/services/ortho Please note: you may have to adjust the symbology to get the best color. Here are some suggestions for doing this is ArcGIS Pro, within the Symbology tab, use the dropdown menus to adjust the color. Change