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Tucson Area GIS Cooperative
April Meeting Agenda - 04/18/2006
3:00 P.M. - 4:30 P.M.
COT IT - Pueblo Room
481 W Paseo Redondo
Attendees: Laura Pinnas - TEP, Linda Coon - PC DSD, Andreas Molin - Town of Oro Valley, Jim Robinson - COT Parks & Recreation, Christine O' Connor - COT IT, Steve Whitney - PC DOT, Teri Schultz - TFD, Mary Szczepanski - COT UPD, Bryn Enright - TW, Dee Korich - TW, Anna Sanchez - COT UPD, Jeff McConnell - PC DOT, Cody Cohn - DMAFB, Helen O'Brien - Pima Community College, Kristen Zimmerman - PAG, Glenn Hicks - COT Parks & Rec, Peter Johnson - TDOT, Darren Douglas - COT IT, Bill Marum - COT DSD, Sandy White - TPPL, Carolyn Lambert - Montgomery & Associates, Jennifer Psillas - Town of Marana, Roxanne Linsley - PAG, Joe Lettrick - Town of Marana
Agenda
1. Presentation: "Mesa Community College's Geographic Information Systems Certificate (GISTC)
Program" - Karen Blevins - Program Coordinator
- Karen's presentation will be available on the GIS Coop website and attached to the same
email containing these minutes
- (Software) license fees for this program run about $20K (per year, I am assuming)
- 30 students have graduated from the program already
Many thanks to Karen for her time and effort in bringing us this presentation!
2. Presentation: "GIS Coop Web Portal Demonstration" - Bryn Enright and Bill Marum
- The web portal subcommittee continues with user testing of the portal by local
engineering firms. At the same time they are also starting to demonstrate the portal for potential users. Demos have been given for COT Development Services, COT Water and TEP.
The feedback from these demos has been largely positive and has led the subcommittee members to other groups who would be interested in learning about the portal. Plans are being made to demonstrate the portal to the COT Utility Coordinating Committee and to the SAHBA Land Committee. The Utility Coordinating Committee members are representatives of utilities who service the area. The SAHBA Land Committee members are engineers and builders. These two groups are a large part of our target audience for the portal.
We are also contacting the chairpersons of the Utility Coordinating Committee at Marana, Pima County, Oro Valley and Sahuarita to make all of the local governments aware of the existence of the portal.
Many thanks to Bryn and Bill for their time and effort in bringing us this presentation!
3. General APLS (Arizona Professional Land Surveyors) discussion - Steve Whitney
- Benefits of being Geospatial member were discussed
- The flyer that Steve passed out at the meeting is available at the following URL:
- There may be a joint AGIC/APLS conference in the future
4. Geodatabase Subcommittee Activity update - Steve Whitney
- The Subcommittee has defined two main focus areas:
1) Geodatabase design standards
a) Model standardization
b) Regionalized data
c) Distributed editing
2) Web-based mapping services
a) Coordination
b) Closer vision
c) Similarities between websites
d) Geodatabase standards vision fits in with web-based mapping
Other possible focus areas are symbology standardization, legend layer naming, etc.
For further information on the Geodatabase Subcommittee, please contact Steve Whitney at Steve.Whitney@dot.pima.gov
5. Distributing Public Data To Outside Parties - Ron Platt
- Topic cancelled
6. Future Leadership Initiatives- Larry
- Now is the time to think about who or whom each GIS Coop member would like to run the Coop. The current chair's term ends June 30th. Whether you want one volunteer to run the Coop, several volunteers to run it, or some other suggested format, make your voice heard! Larry is attempting to use web-based survey software (the same that was used for last year's Training Survey) to allow all members the ability to vote "electronically".
- Remember, we are not only choosing new leadership, but possibly a new leadership structure. All suggested leadership structure changes will need to be turned into me by the next Coop meeting (May 16th). I will present them to all members and let the members decide how best to proceed
If you propose one or more people to lead the Coop this next year, please make sure that they would be willing to make the commitment or have some inclination to make the commitment
7. Open Floor
- 2005 Orthos are online!
If someone has been misquoted or information has been left out, please inform Larry Cassen at Lawrence.Cassen@tucsonaz.gov as soon as possible to reconcile the error(s). Please accept my apologies ahead of time