Tucson GIS Co-op

Agenda

1. Introductions (if necessary for new comers)

Ray Brice (PC DOT), Cody Cohn (PC DOT), Jennifer Psillas, Emily Sanschagrin (Coop Intern), Johanna Kraus (COT DSD), Bob Finkle (IT Nexus), Ken Maits (PC RFC), Kaoru Johansen (PC DOT), Peter Johnson (COT DOT), Felipe Morales (PC DOT), Blanca Espino (COT DOT), Dave Koss (COT Real Estate), Andreas Molin (Oro Valley), Bryn Enright (COT Water), Leticia Bermudez (COT DNR), Ann Moser (COT Fire), Josh Pope (COT Planning), Anna Sanchez (COT Planning), Jesse Reyes (COT Planning), Frank Sousa (COT OCSD), Kristen Zimmerman (PAG).

2. Presentation: How Pima County DOT is implementing a Linear Referencing System (LRS)

See powerpoint

• Brief overview of LRS
• Pima Co. DOT LRS

o Components

o Processes

• Current and future uses
• Challenges and workarounds

3. Business

• GIS Intern position (Peter Johnson)

Peter mentioned that intern position was due to be phased out due to budget cuts as IT. In order to keep Emily on staff it might be necessary to fund her position from a PAG grant that he has access to. He then asked the Coop if there were any regional type GIS related activities she could be involved in to justify funding from the PAG grant.

• GIS Steering Committee update (Johanna Kraus)

The GIS Steering committee (separate from the Coop) has been charged by the City IT managers to do ‘something’ about GIS in the city. The committee has decided to focus on first on generating GIS skills list for city staff. The list will be used to help answer questions about who to seek out if help is needed for a particular GIS-related task.

• Private sector membership guidelines (group)

The group then began a short discussion about the participation of private sector individuals to the Coop. Without much debate it was decided that private sector individuals should be allowed to attend with the understanding that they are not there to ‘sell’ the other membership on their products or services. Presentations given by private sector members should also focus on procedures, methods and resources that any member could use without making a purchase.

Written documentation of these guidelines was felt unnecessary beyond adding a few lines to the Coop website.

Johanna mentioned that the Coop website was terribly out of date and that the list serve link did not work.

4. Events (not that it matters)

• ESRI Business GIS Summit (April 27-30 – Chicago, IL)
• ESRI Law Enforcement Seminar (May 13 – Phoenix, AZ)
• ESRI International User Conference (Aug 4-8 – San Diego, CA)
• ESRI Health GIS Conference (Sep 28-Oct 1 – Washington, DC)
• AGIC Geospatial Education & Training Symposium (Oct 8-10 – Prescott, AZ)

5. Open Floor

Steve (through Cody) asked if anybody felt it important to keep maintaining the dual carriageway representation of the street network. If anyone does have a use for it, please email Steve.