San Bernardino Fire Information This site has info on the October 2003 fires that burned throughout Southern California. This was a primary site for up-to-date information as well as maps of the current fire perimeters.

ESRI Business Information Solutions - About ESRI BIS: "ESRI Business Information Solutions (ESRI BIS), a division of ESRI, helps industry, government, and non-profit organizations understand customers, analyze site locations, visualize and map marketing and demographic data, and identify untapped market potential. We do this by creating innovative solutions that combine demographics, consumer spending pattern intelligence, and lifestyle segmentation with powerful technology to help you make better business decisions."

About GIS.com: "About GIS.com GIS.com is a portal to GIS information on the Web and was created by ESRI, a GIS software developer. The site is intended to educate anyone interested in geographic technology on the value that technology brings to their day-to-day activities. The site also provides GIS users with resources to help them in their work. Our goal is to grow GIS.com to serve the needs of the GIS community. "

GIS Day: "GIS Day is a grassroots event that formalizes the practice of geographic information systems (GIS) users and vendors of opening their doors to schools, businesses, and the general public to showcase real-world applications of this important technology. The event is principally sponsored by the National Geographic GIS Day 2002 at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC Society, the Association of American Geographers, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, the United States Geological Survey, The Library of Congress, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and ESRI."

GIS Day is a yearly event that happens world wide. Share your knowledge about GIS, or attend an event and learn more!

Southern California URISA The SoCal URISA group covers most of Southern California. This professional group is made up mostly of GIS professionals, but also includes folks from other IT fields.

This Blog is designed as a storage location for reference sites related to GIS and GIS Technology. For more info on GIS, visit the ESRI website at www.esri.com.