Attend GISSA Ukubuzana 2012 Exhibition for free

Ukubuzana, the biggest South African GIS event of the year will be held on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of October at Emperors palace, Johannesburg. Although the delegate fee for this event cost quite a bit of money for the small and medium sized organisations, I just noted that the organisers have opened the exhibition part of event for free.

You will unfortunately not be able to attend any of the range of talks and workshops, but you will be able to interact with some of the biggest South African GISSA "players" in market, so why not take this change to attend for FREE.

Here is the link to the ticket you need to complete and bring with you to the event: http://www.eepublishers.co.za/images/upload/GISSA-Ukubuzana-2012-free-ticket-to-exhibition-only.pdf

Good quality map apps have become the norm

I read this article, "New Apple Maps under fire from users", this morning on the BBC News website regarding the new Apple Map service.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19659736

Although I am sure these short comings in Apple Maps are just temporary, it just shows how good quality and accurate data in mapping applications has become the norm today. By mapping I mean the base maps, aerial and satelite imagery, plus other points of interest layers.

Next GISSA Members Event - 19 September 2012

If you live in the Cape Town region and are interested in attending a GIS related event where speakers from the industry will be delivering related talks, why not attend the next GISSA (http://www.gissa.org.za/) Western Cape Members Event this coming Wednesday.

Apart from the very informative talks, there will also be some time to network with a range of industry specialists during and after the formal event.

Venue - Bunker Bar, Viridian Drive, Burgundy Estate, Northern Suburbs, Cape Town

Start - 9h00 for 9h30

Website - http://www.bunkerbar.co.za/contact-us.html

Here follows the presentation topics for the morning:

• Harness the power of satellite imagery – An overview of applications in different industries

• FruitLook - Get the picture?

• Groundwater monitoring using GIS Technologies

• http://www.whereismytransport.co.za

• GIS in Marketing

If you are not a GISSA Member and this is your first event, the cost will be R30 payable at the door.

See you there!

Need a job? Learn to impress the robots - BBC News

I came across this very interesting article this morning on the BBC News website - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19440255.

In short it is about how technology, online & automatic candidate evaluations, etc. is starting to become a integral part of the recruitment process. This does not mean that human contact and evaluation will become null & void, but automatic technology based filtering is becoming more apparent in the first line candidate evaluation and filtering.

Note the section talking about the importance of key words in CV's as this will assist you to get you CV past the "robots" and into the hand of a recruiter.

Very interesting read!