Professionals, students and the public alike were hosted to many attractions and events at the GIS Day 2008 Conference and College Fair including the following featured attraction, the "Tenth Anniversary GIS Day Cartographic Exhibition". This exhibition featured a grand collection of over one hundred and fifty professional high quality maps and satellite images portraying spectacular, full color, global, regional and local cartographic products and satellite images from GIS Day collections from over the last ten years. Featured products indcluded fantastically detailed National Geographic Collection Maps, NASA Earth from Space Collection Satellite Images, NOAA Ocean Mapping Collection Sea Floor Images and Marine Sanctuary Maps, United States National Park Service Collection Park Maps, UNESCO Wonders of the World Collection Maps and Library of Congress Antique Collection Maps.

Other features and events that occurred at this year's conference included • Professional Poster Sessions and Talks from many sectors of the Geo-Spatial Science community including urban planning, resource management, emergency management, education, science, government, and industry • a Geo-Spatial Science College Fair featuring representatives from many regional Geo-Spatial Science undergraduate, graduate degree and certificate programs • a professional Geo-Science Vendor Hall featuring leading companies and organizations in the Geo-Science industry • and hands on, state-of-the-art GIS and Remote Sensing Laboratory Tours.