Making Everyday an Adventure, till it all gets the best of Me.
Very Pleased To Share A Company Project I Recently Helped With. Here’s Our Marketing Line For It —
“…Today we are launching a new campaign called GIS Ink. What is GIS Ink? It’s both a play on our name and a fun, interesting way to use Esri’s story map capabilities that are part of ArcGIS Online (you know we’re map geeks, right?). We think a tattoo is similar to a map in that it’s a very visual way to communicate something.
More about that play on words - here it is in a nutshell:
The official name of our company is Geographic Information Services, Inc.
Geographic Information Services, Inc is abbreviated GISi.
GISi is pronounced “GIS Inc.”
The “Inc.” in GIS Inc. sounds like “Ink”.
Ink = Tattoo = Which, as mentioned above, is a fun and different idea for a webmap.
We’re sure you might have questions, like…
So what is GIS Ink?
Basically, it’s a website for people to submit photos of tattoos. You’ll be able to see submissions and view them via a webmap. The submissions will eventually be voted on to selected winners.
How do I participate?
By submitting a photo of your tattoo! There are two categories for entries: (1) tattoos that are GIS or location related or (2) a tattoo from a person who works in the GIS industry (even if the tattoo is not GIS related).
How do I win?
There will be a winner for each of the two categories. Winners will be chosen based off of the total number of votes they have for their tattoo. The voting feature is not currently active but will begin on Monday June 24th. So use the social media links on the site to spread the word about your tattoo, get votes, and win something awesome.
What’s the “something awesome” I can win?
A GoPRO HD Hero 3 Black Edition
How will I find out if I won?
It might seem pretty obvious to you that you won, simply by the number of votes you have versus other contestants after July 7th, 2013 at 11:50 CST. But we will be announcing the official winner for each submission category at the Esri UC in July. Winners will be notified by email, snail mail, or by phone. We cannot notify by smoke signal at this time.
Where can I submit my ink?
Visit the website www.gis-ink.com and click the Submit Your Ink link at the top.
Finally, when you leave the site, we would like you to remember GIS Ink. Remember how great it is to be a part of this industry and how refreshing it is to be surrounded by individuals who truly love what they do. When you think of all the things a tattoo can symbolize - a passion, a commitment, or a story, this whole crazy thing starts to make more sense. Our GIS community embodies all of those things…and it’s our own unique “ink”. It’s our GIS Ink….”
Everyone Who’s Eligible, Should Go Do This Now!!!
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two wheels to the ground.
Finally manned up and got a garden going in the vacant lot I always end up mowing.
Eduard Imhof, cartographic relief shading and Mt. Everest model.
Imhof was a professor of cartography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, from 1925 - 1965, and was famous for his relief shading of countless maps and atlases.
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