NEXT MEETING
 The next meeting will be held at Stanford University on Saturday, May 8, 2010. The meeting will be in the Fred L. Hartley Conference Room in the Ruth Wattis-Mitchell Earth Sciences Building which is part of the School of Earth Sciences. Directions and more information on parking, lunch options, reservations and other details will be included with the next Newsletter.
The program planner for the meeting is Fred DeJarlais, Vice President - Northern California. If you would like to contribute to the program or bring a favorite map for the Member’s Memorable Maps portion of the program, please contact him at fred@californiamapsociety.org.
If you are not a member of CMS, you are still most welcome to come. We will need to plan for your attendance. Please contact Fred DeJarlais at fred@californiamapsociety.org by April 25th to let him know of your interest. All attendees pay a small fee to cover the cost of the meeting, refreshments and lunch.
Tentative Program for our Northern California General Meeting May 8th, 2010
8:30 -9:00 |
Registration, coffee, tea, juice, fruit, muffins, scones, bagels
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9:00 - 9:10 |
Welcome Phil Simon, President and Fred DeJarlais, Vice President for Northern California
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9:10 - 10:00 |
Tom Conrad, Retired Urban Planner, Cities: Why the Shape? Mr. Conrad will discuss the evolution and determinates of city shape and size - cultural, topographic, mercantile, and protective.
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10:00 - 10:30 |
Phil Simon, President of California Map Society, Historic Tulare Lake in the California Central Valley. Phil will describe the origins of Tulare Lake which covered most of the land that was later to become Kings County. This large fresh water lake, said to have been the largest in the western United States was supplied with waters brought from the Sierra Nevada mountains via the Kings, Kaweah and Tule Rivers.
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10:30 - 10:45 |
Break - beverages
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10:45 - 11:30 |
Richard Hintz, Infrastructure Engineer at Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California, Geo-Volunteer. As the New York Times has noted”… [he] is a foot soldier in an army of volunteer cartographers who are logging every detail of neighborhoods near and far into online atlases. From Petaluma to Peshawar, these amateurs are arming themselves with GPS devices and easy-to-use software to create digital maps where none were available before, or fixing mistakes and adding information to existing ones.”
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11:30 - 11:45 |
General Membership Meeting & election results
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11:45 - 1:00 |
Lunch – box lunches with side salad, drink and sweet (with Workshop on new CMS website – Pat Boyce)
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1:00 - 1:30 |
Stuart Snydman, Manager, Digital Production & Web Applications, Stanford University High-definition Map and Document Scanning.
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1:30 - 3:00 |
Stuart Snydman & Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Assistant Director of Geospatial, Cartographic & Scientific and Data Services, Tour of University Scanning Department This will include viewing of rare books and maps and historic prints at the Cecil H. Green Library
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3:00 - 3:15 |
Break – beverages
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3:15 - 4:00 |
Joshua Miele, Ph.D., Associate Scientist at The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute's Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center, San Francisco. Automated Production of Tactile and Audio/Tactile Maps. Dr. Miele has developed the first web-based software tool for rapid production of highly specific, tactile (Braille) street maps of any location in the USA.
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4:00 - 4:15 |
Member’s Memorable Maps
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4:15 - 4:30 |
Adjourn for Director’s Meeting
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4:30 - 5:15 |
Wine and Cheese Social To be held at William Harris’ residence in nearby Menlo Park (map will be provided).
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