2010 Photos
Tavares, Lake County, Florida had this cake for the public. Publix Super Markets also made cookies in the shape of Lake County. Submitted by Vicki Runninger, CCM, GISP.
This cake was from Charleston Water System's first GIS Day event in Charleston, South Carolina. Sue Young, the administrative support for GIS, made the cake. CWS plans on another successful event in November 2011. Submitted by Connie Banegas, GISP.
ENMAX Power Corporation in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, celebrated their GIS Day activities with this cake. Submitted by Martin Waters.
Nanjing Forestry University GIS Association in Nanjing, China, topped off their event with this cake. Submitted by Wenjuan Shen.
Matanuska-Susitna Borough in Palmer, Alaska, topped off their event with this impressive cake. Submitted by Susan J. Howard, GIS Supervisor.
The Spatial team at Whelans InSites in Sydney, Australia put together a low-key morning tea to celebrate GIS Day with the rest of the company. They sampled these spatially smart decorated cakes, cookies, and donuts. Read more about their event. Submitted by Fadhillah Norzahari, Geospatial Engineer.
Turkish Chamber of Surveying and Cadastre Engineers, Trabzon Branch in collabration with GISLab, Department of Surveying Engineering of Karadeniz Technical University in Trabzon, Turkey celebrated their GIS Day activities with this cake. Submitted by Ebru Colak.
Geolab - Geoprocessing Laboratory from UDESC (Santa Catarina State University) celebrated their event in Florianopolis, Brazil with around 130 people from other universities and companies and this GIS Day cake. Read more about their event. Submitted by Daniel Regis Filho.
The Brock University Map Library concluded their first GIS Day event with this cake. Read more about their event. Submitted by Colleen Beard.
The BYU Geography Department celebrated GIS Day with this cake (see closeup). "The cake was huge, so it didn't look that great, but it tasted delicious!" They celebrated GIS Day in conjunction with Geography Week. Submitted by Alexa Hysi, BYU Geography Club President.
At West Jordan, Utah, they presented a demonstration of GIS to the Mayor and City council in City Council meeting, and the Mayor proclaimed Wednesday, November 17, 2010, as GIS Day. They had displays of the GIS work they do in the city and then served GIS cake and punch. Submitted by Clint Hutchings, GIS Administrator.
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in Kempton Park, South Africa, ended their full day of activities focused on "Globalising our City" with this beautiful cake. Read more about their event. Submitted by Gregory Sitei.
PAGIS's cake reflects their theme, "GIS - Modeling Your Community." The event was held at the Verizon Arena in North Little Rock. Read more about their event. Submitted by Hal A. Edwards, Sr. GIS Programmer.
SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, celebrated with this cake. Read more about their event. Submitted by Sylvia Szymczak.
Escola Secundária de Pinhal Novo in Pinhal Novo, Portugal, celebrated GIS Day with this cake. Read more about their event. Submitted by Madalena Mota.
Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, topped off their activities (open house, map gallery, scavenger hunt, and doctor's office) with this lovely GIS Day logo cake. Read more about their event. Submitted by Sonya Cowper, GIS Programmer Analyst.
McLean County Regional Planning Commission celebrated their GIS Day in Bloomington, Illinois, with this cake. Read more about their event. Submitted by Khalid Hasan.
The Memphis Area Geographic Information Council (MAGIC) celebrated GIS Day at the Great Hall of Germantown (Tennessee) with this delicious 10th anniversary cake. Read more about their event. Submitted by Dr. Esra Ozdenerol.
City of Dallas, Infrastructure Management GIS celebrated GIS Day with this cake. Submitted by Kevin S. Burns, GIS Analyst III.
GISinfo Ltd. in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, culminated their GIS Day activities with this lovely cake. Read more about their event. Submitted by Shamil Burnashev.
The Thurrock Council GIS Team celebrated this year's GIS Day by holding an event at neighboring Southend Council, where they have just taken over managing the corporate GIS. They held a drop-in session, showing examples of what GIS can do for the council. There were a couple of competitions as well as these delicious cupcakes. Submitted by Sandra Bain, GIS Manager.
The Arkansas River Valley GIS Users Group in Fort Smith, Arkansas, hosted some 300 students and 75 adults. Afterwards they served this lovely cake. Submitted by Wes Cleland.
Port Hedland Port Authority and Dampier Port Authority, both from Western Australia, held a joint celebration for GIS Day 2010. They made two cakes (see closeup). Particularly popular was their cheesecake showing the continents with a Robinson projection. Passionfruit topping was used for the continents. Their cakes were created by Jane Hogben, GIS Officer for Dampier Port Authority, and Claire Hawke, GIS Coordinator for Port Hedland Port Authority. Submitted by Claire Hawke.
Conestoga-Rovers & Associates Ltd. (CRA) in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, celebrated their 5th GIS Day with this festive cake. Submitted by Ted Hutcheson.
The County of Frontenac (Ontario, Canada) celebrated GIS Day 2010 with this ice-cream cake for staff. This helped raise awareness about GIS. Submitted by Kevin Farrell, GIS Specialist.
Urban Systems Ltd. in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, celebrated their GIS Day activities with this cake made and submitted by Wade Turner, GISP Senior Engineering Tech./GIS Specialist.
City of Delaware, Ohio, celebrated GIS Day with one huge cake for City staff and public. The City of Delaware GIS Coordinator, Maureen Grener, created this cake to celebrate the Map Gallery and Open house. It was beautiful and very delicious! Submitted by Maureen Grener.
The Pinellas County Planning Department in Clearwater, Florida, celebrated GIS Day 2010 with a mouse cake baked by Denise Welch; pictured are David Walker and Alan Shellhorn.
Submitted by Alan Shellhorn, Department GIS Applications Specialist.
Huntingdonshire District Council, United Kingdom, celebrated GIS Day hosted by the GIS Manager. Information on GIS was provided to all staff via the intranet and to GIS "Power Users" to raise the awareness of GIS throughout the Authority while cakes represented how GIS is integrated within the Authority. Submitted by Maciej Drobowiecki, GIS Manager.
These cupcakes baked by Jessica Klug, Planner, were enjoyed at the Midland, Ontario, Canada, event. Submitted by Lee Symmes.
Intetics GIS team (Kharkov, Ukraine) celebrated GIS Day 2010 hosting 15 newly graduated GIS students, young specialists, and teachers. After a rich information session, office tour, video presentations, and quizzes, all guests and team members were treated to a big GIS cake. Submitted by Victoria Alexandrova, Director of Offshore Production Center.
Held at the University of Azores (Angra do Heroismo), on the island of Terceira, Portugal, we celebrated the first GIS Day in the Azorean archipelago with this cake. Submitted by Rigo Chacon.
JAC GeoDesign in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, celebrated their GIS Day activities with these festive cookies. Submitted by Judith Chinn, Owner/3D Model Builder.
DCP Midstream's LDN (Leadership Development Network) in Houston, Texas, celebrated GIS Day 2010 with this Texas-sized cake. Submitted by Darrell Clarke, GIS Analyst.
The University of Virginia Scholars' Lab celebrated GIS Day by hosting over 70 people for a full afternoon of GIS goodness which was topped off with this beautiful cake. Submitted by Kelly Johnston MS, GIS Specialist.
The Stockton on Tees GIS Team in the United Kingdom decorated pizzas in a GIS or GIS-Day style. See closeup. Submitted by Lesley Hope.
Rescan Environmental Services Ltd. in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, celebrated GIS Day with this cake by one of their GIS specialists, Monika Belko. Submitted by Pieter Van Leuzen, GIS Manager.
NSCC Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, Canada celebrated their GIS Day activities with this large sheet cake. They had enough cake for the whole student body! Submitted by David MacLean, GIS/Remote Sensing Faculty.
The Ministry of Natural Resources in Cochrane, Ontario, Canada celebrated their GIS Day activities with this GIS cake. See closeup. Submitted by Melanie Bell & Mary Kirkbride, GIS/Data Technician, District Planning & Information Management Team.
University of Kentucky Facilities [in Lexington, Kentucky] celebrated GIS Day 2010 with a tasty rendition of their award-winning custom GIS Facility Management Application. Unlike the actual application that integrates CAD, GIS, 360 photos, and University systems, this edible workstation whipped together cookies, licorice, and cake for a one-click treat (See close-up of cake.) With beta testing behind us, our integrated circuits of sugary delights are ready for the Food Network Challenge! Submitted by Michelle Ellington, GISP, GIS Coordinator, UK Campus Physical Plant Division.
AT&T's RAN GIS team in Atlanta, Georgia, proudly celebrated GIS Day 2010. This cake was part of the celebration. Submitted by Gladness Adkins, GIS Engineer.
Employees at ESRI headquarters in Redlands, California, celebrated GIS Day in the Cafe with this festive white sheet cake with banana cream filling.
GIS Section of Oil and Gas company of Atyrau, Republic of Kazakhstan, promoted GIS Day and topped it off with this GIS Day Cake. Submitted by Mansur Russayev, GIS Database Analyst.
The GIS & Land Charges Team at Ashfield District Council, United Kingdom, made cakes and biscuits to sell in support of GIS Day with all proceeds going to support the work of MapAction. Submitted by Elizabeth Gomm, GIS Technician.
City of Thornton, Colorado, celebrated their GIS Day activities with this cake. Submitted by Liz Kienle, GIS Analyst.
Public Transport Authority of Western Australia, in Perth, Western Australia celebrated their GIS Day activities with this cake. Submitted by Sophie Richards, GIS Mapping Officer, School Bus Services.
Bass Coast Shire Council, in Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia, were perhaps the first to celebrate GIS Day 2010. They ended their activities with this festive cake. Submitted by Sultana Nasrin Baby, GIS Data Officer.
York Region Planning and Development Services in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, celebrated their GIS Day activities with this cake. Submitted by Duncan Rowe.
East Central Florida Regional Planning Council in Orlando celebrated their GIS Day activities on Oct. 28 with this cake. Read more about their event. Submitted by Claudia Paskauskas.
Judith A. Chinn, Owner/3D Model Builder of JAC GeoDesign in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, delivered a "Happy GIS Day" speech to her Toastmasters group. She got right into the spirit of GIS Day and included a GIS Day Cake in her presentation. The speech and cake were prototypes of the presentation she will be doing at her local University (Vancouver Island University) on GIS Day in November. The cake was created by Sarah Wallbank of Parfait Gourmet Desserts. She's a big fan of GIS. And, yes, the satellites are edible.