Present: Donald Ijams, Mary Szczepanski, Kevin Sweeney, Steve Whitney, Steve Smith, Paige Hamner, Ali Fain, Bart Killpack, Robert MacArthur, John Keefer and Christine O'Connor

Update from Pima County DOT Technical Services/GIS - Steve Whitney

The parcel base that has been updated through the orthophoto rectification process is now available in the GIS Library (MARS2). The area covered will continue to grow, until the entire '98 project area is complete. The rest of the adjusted layers will follow in due course. Steve mentioned that he will forward questions and updates on this and other project areas on the PIMAGIS listserv. You can sign up for these updates by joining the listserv(pimagis-subscribe@yahoogroups.com).

Pima County has a hiring freeze in force, but efforts are being made to bring someone into DOT/FCD/Tech Serv/GIS with GIS/Transportation experience.

Update from Pima County Develoment Services' Address Cleaning Effort

The GIS Cooperative sponsored GIS Intern, Marianne Anderson, is now working thirty hours per week assisting the process of correcting and updating adcounty, the master address repository for Pima County. She has learned a number of programs needed to research and process questioned addresses.

Marianne is concentrating on a file of unmatched City of Tucson Business Privilege License addresses as the source for her work. Through May 2, 2002, Marianne has changed, added or has pending for add 232 address points in adcounty. Another 86 probables are the list for more research.

We very much appreciate Pima County DSD's support in this effort at making the shared official address base better and better.

CityScan/Master Address Database Project Update - Ves Zinn, John Keefer

After working through several serious data management issues, work is now focusing on the application development side. The new look of the site is not on the Intranet yet and is slowly being rolled out. There was criticism that the web-based portal was not intuitive enough for first-time users. Help screens have been added with explanations and tools.

The main screen gives search options including City, Ward, Neighborhood, Intersection and Specific Address. Under the opening screen is a map zoomed to the appropriate extent and initial information tabs include Political, Business and Crime.

Neighborhood Profiles

A meeting among City employees with some interest in neighborhood profiles was held about one month ago. There is City-wide interest in making neighborhoods more active and effective in their participation in City government. CityScan will have a neighborhood profile section. Police would like a neighborhood crime profile to bring to neighborhood meetings. City Planning and the new City Department of Neighborhood Resources also have significant interest in this idea. Both printed and web-based formats were identified as important.

The group decided that several prototypes would be useful for review. The CityScan effort is now underway, possibly producing the first prototype.

Presentation by ESRI/Denver on ArcIMS 4.0

ESRI's Ali Fain and Bart Killpack made a presentation on the features and new items to be found in the upcoming release of ArcIMS 4.0. They may be doing a user conference review soon, maybe in Tucson. The new client-side features focus on Windows and Java for the interface. On the server side, ESRI focuses on Windows, Unix and Linux. A growing number of devices are receiving support. ESRI's goal is to have ArcIMS be the fundamental architecture for web-based GIS data management and display.

The presentation listed new platforms such as Red Hat Linux, new connectors for Java, new Java administrators and a GIS metadata server.

Other Business

The next GIS Cooperative meeting is scheduled for 10:00 - 11:30 AM, Friday, May 10, 2002.