{"id":58241,"date":"2026-03-04T16:35:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=58241"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:35:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:35:38","slug":"event-2026-washinton-gis-conference-wagisa-bellevue-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/event-2026-washinton-gis-conference-wagisa-bellevue-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"Event: 2026 Washinton GIS Conference, WAGISA (Bellevue, WA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/wagisa.org\/resources\/Pictures\/Final%20banner%20(2).png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wagisa.org\/Posters2026\"><strong>LINK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CALL FOR POSTER, APP, OR SCRIPT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu\"><strong>Permissible Map Entries\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><span><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu\">Each participant is limited to entering a maximum of one print and one digital submission in the contest (these can be two completely separate projects, or a related project in two formats).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu\">Each submission must be received by <strong>May 5, 2026<\/strong> at noon and include a written abstract about the submission.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu\">Each submission must specify which category the presenter wishes to submit for.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu\">For all entries, provide a .png file of the map, application, or script and a url to an online version if submitting for a digital category. This will need to be provided at the time of submission.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu\">For physical submissions, maps\/posters must be a maximum size of 24\u201d x 36\u201d, and can be brought to the conference center on either 5\/19 (Workshop day) or by 8:30 am on 5\/20 (First day of the conference).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu\">Printing scholarships are available.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu\">Jupyter Notebook assistance is available upon request.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu\">Email us at MapContest@wagisa.org if you have any questions or would like assistance.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu\"><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu\">There will be one winner from each of the four (4) categories below, and the winner may be a student or professional.\u00a0 There will also be one student winner chosen overall (a student may win in one of the categories below as well as be chosen the overall student winner).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu\">Physical Submissions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><span><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu\">Analytical- Stand-alone images analytical in nature. Creative, effective, insightful integration of geospatial data.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu\">Artistic- Innovative visual expression of cartography and geographic concepts, using any type of physical and\/or digital media.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu\">Digital Submissions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><span><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu\">Apps- Interactive applications that may be consumed on a browser or a mobile device. Effective, attractive, functional, engaging.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu\">\u00a0Scripts- A Jupyter Notebook with code, maps, and\/or charts. <\/span><\/span><img class=\"WaContentDivider WaContentDivider dividerStyle001\" style=\"font-size: inherit;color: initial\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP\/\/\/wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==\" data-wacomponenttype=\"ContentDivider\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\">Submissions Received as of 2\/24\/2026<\/p>\n<table class=\"contStyleExcSimpleTable\" width=\"99%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\">\u00a0Analytical\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\u00a00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\">\u00a0Artistic\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\u00a00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\">\u00a0Apps\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\u00a00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\">\u00a0Scripts\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\u00a00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11259,"featured_media":34103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[8536,11,130],"tags":[4,5167,32,38,33,7,8537,13,8,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58242,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58241\/revisions\/58242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}