An event reminder for this coming week as Geo tech professionals from around the country convene in Northern Colorado for GIS in the Rockies (See http://www.gisintherockies.org) .

Coinciding with the event is the second installment of Ignite Spatial NOCO. I’ll be taking in the cool, Ignite Spatial NOCO 2 event which will also be livestreamed Tuesday Night at roughly 7 PMN MST  enabling non-attendees to take part in a virtual event and even share comments on Twitter via the hashtag #isnoco2 – see @Ignitespatial on Twitter, jump to http://ignitespatialnoco2.eventbrite.com/ for event sponsor info & tickets, and see also the event blog at http://ignitespatialnoco.wordpress.com/

Ignite Spatial 2 presentations include:

• Ryan Smith: ESC Engineering – Using GIS Roads & Facilities for GPS Vehicle  Navigation
• Shannon Smith: City of Loveland – No More Paper: Going from Paper Intensive Service Request System to Electronic Submissions
• Brian Timoney: The Timoney Group – Life Lessons from History’s Great Cartographers
• Jason Channin: Esri – GIS in Gov 2.0
• David Cole: MapQuest - MapQuest and OpenStreetMap
• Kas Osterbuhr: K3 Resources - Leveraging Timestamp in KML in Google Earth & ArcExplorer
• Kate Chapman: FortiusOne – Spatial/Temporal Analysis for More Insightful Mobile Applications Analysis
• Bryan Franey: Esri - Intelligent Maps
• Nick Armstrong: Digital Gunslinger – Using GIS to Get Away with Murder
• Peter Batty: Ubisense - Don’t Make Me Think
• Matt Ball: Vector 1 Media - U-city Can Become Our City: How this Korean Concept will Shape the Future of Urban Geospatial Practice
• Mano Marks: Google - Bringing GIS, Not Just Maps, to the Masses
• David Bryson: Esri - The Geography of Business