From rhoskins@home.com Thu Oct 7 04:45:02 1999 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id EAA37186 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 04:45:02 -0700 Received: from mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (imail@ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.08) with ESMTP id EAA03576 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 04:45:01 -0700 Received: from c501522a ([24.5.121.123]) by mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19991007114500.FGEJ14188.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@c501522a> for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 04:45:00 -0700 Message-ID: <00aa01bf10b9$61f0abe0$7b790518@olmpi1.wa.home.com> From: "Dick Hoskins" To: "WAPHGIS" Subject: WAPHGIS: GIS day Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 04:44:58 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00A7_01BF107E.B574D600" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00A7_01BF107E.B574D600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >From http://www.gisday.com/ GIS users and vendors are invited to join the National Geographic = Society, the Association of American Geographers, and ESRI in opening = their doors for GIS Day 1999. GIS Day will be held November 19, the last day of Geography Awareness = Week. Since 1987, the National Geographic Society has sponsored = Geography Awareness Week to promote geographic literacy in schools, = communities, and organizations, with a focus on the education of = children. Geography Awareness Week will be held November 15-19, 1999. 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 Society, the Association of = American Geographers, and ESRI. To date, more than 1,100 organizations have registered for GIS Day and = pledges have been received to educate over 845,000 children and over = 725,000 adults! We are over halfway to the goal for GIS Day to educate = over 1,000,000 children. Richard Hoskins GIS & Spatial Epidemiology Group WA State Department of Health 1102 Quince Street Olympia, WA 98504-7812 ------=_NextPart_000_00A7_01BF107E.B574D600 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

From http://www.gisday.com/

GIS users and vendors are invited to join the National Geographic = Society,=20 the Association of American Geographers, and ESRI in opening their doors = for GIS=20 Day 1999.

GIS Day will be held November 19, the last day of Geography Awareness = Week.=20 Since 1987, the National Geographic Society has sponsored Geography = Awareness=20 Week to promote geographic literacy in schools, communities, and = organizations,=20 with a focus on the education of children. Geography Awareness Week will = be held=20 November 15-19, 1999.

GIS Day is a grassroots event that formalizes the practice of = geographic=20 information systems (GIS) users and vendors of opening their doors to = schools,=20 businesses, and the general public to showcase real-world applications = of this=20 important technology. The event is principally sponsored by the National = Geographic Society, the Association of American Geographers, and = ESRI.

To date, more than 1,100 organizations have registered for GIS Day = and=20 pledges have been received to educate over 845,000 children and over = 725,000=20 adults! We are over halfway to the goal for GIS Day to educate over = 1,000,000=20 children.

Richard Hoskins
GIS & Spatial Epidemiology = Group
WA=20 State Department of Health
1102 Quince Street
Olympia, WA=20 98504-7812

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