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Tucson Area GIS Cooperative
May Meeting Agenda - 05/16/2006
3:00 P.M. - 4:30 P.M.
COT IT - Pueblo Room
481 W Paseo Redondo
Attendees: Linda Coon - PC DSD, Steve Whitney - PC DOT, Bryn Enright - TW, Dee Korich - TW, Jennifer Psillas - Town of Marana, Robert MacArthur – U of A, Matt Ruhr – U of A, Lori Ehman – COT ES, Mike Helies – COT ES, Michael Hicks – TDOT, Ken Ventura – Town of Sahuarita, Mike Schrad – Town of Sahuarita
Agenda
1. Presentation: GIS Career Fest – Shea Lamar - ASU
- This event may assist some organizations in assessing what GIS skills new
graduates are taking with them and what geospatial job skills other organizations are
examining
- ArcNews article (GIS workforce)
http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/winter0506articles/defining1of2.html
- GIS Career Fest detailed information:
- Many thanks to Shea for her informative presentation!
2. Presentation: "Mashup Applications in Community Mapping" – Rob MacArthur and Matt Ruhr – U of A
- Mashup: A web mashup is a web page or application that combines data from two or more external online sources. The external sources are typically other web sites and their data may be obtained by the mashup developer in various ways including, but not limited to: APIs, XML feeds, and screen-scraping.
Because mashups are often built using APIs (see below), this site gives you a variety of ways to view the relationship between a mashup and any supporting APIs used to create that application
- U of A Agriculture department uses Javascript and ASP.net in their mash-up research
- U of A Aggie mashup links website:
- Programmable Web’s mashup link (768 different mash-up links featured!):
- For those of you interested in open source geospatial software development:
- Article presented examining all levels of government and their views of mash-ups:
- Many thanks Rob and Matt for their time and effort in bringing us this presentation!
3. Budget – Larry
- The GIS Cooperative has approximately $12,800 remaining in the budget. This amount may be used for training and/or professional books/materials
4. Open Floor
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