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• Education: SAIAT will have an ArcGIS Level 1 class in October and November and an ArcGIS Level 2 class in November and December. Jennifer Sborov noted that the Building Geodatabase class went well and they might host another Building Geodatabase class in the Spring 2008.
• GIS Intern position: Peter Johnson informed the committee that GIS Intern position has been filled by an engineering management student from UA but a start date has yet to be determined.
• PAG Ortho ’08 Project: Mr. Johnson noted that the PAG Ortho 2008 committee has narrowed the list of vendors to two companies. The flight will include 4 inch resolution for the core urban area and 1-foot resolution for the remainder. They will also be obtaining LIDAR, 35 square miles of DTMs, and will be covering western Cochise County and most of Benson and southern Pinal County to catch the Red Rock community being built by Pulte.
• GDB Subcommittee: Mr. Johnson commented that the subcommittee met recently and is using the stnetall.gdb as the test case. They are working through issues with the linear referencing.
• Pictometry: Dave Koss  provided an update on the cost of purchasing the 2005 PAG Pictometry Pilot Project oblique imagery of 37 square miles.  Pictometry offered to do an new 2007 Flight of 250 square miles that would include the 2005 images, and 250 square miles of imagery from a 2006 flight that Pictometry flew in the valley. The new imagery would include 4-inch orthogonal imagery (250 square miles), plus the obliques (4 way) with unlimited licensing for $76,000.  The Pima County Assessor’s Office is very interested in this package and would be able to help fund the purchase.  Mr. Koss will try to have a presentation for the Co-op at the next meeting and proposed that the Co-op provide $10,000-15,000 to assist with the purchase.  He noted that there is another vendor as well that could also provide oblique imagery to the region and PAG would probably go out with an RFP.  Please e-mail Mr. Koss (dave.koss@tucsonaz.gov ) with any comments since he will bring this issue up for a vote at the October 16, 2007 meeting.
• IT GIS Core Action Items: Gage Andrews attended the first meeting of the Pima County Office of Emergency Services and Homeland Security last month. This seven person entity has been charged with coordinating cross-city responses to an area-wide emergency as mandated by federal law. Next Spring they will conduct a mock disaster event and a full-scale mock disaster event next Fall. Mr. Andrews has asked several members of the Co-op for assistance in fulfilling the 6 requirements for Emergency Management, Resource Support, Urban Security, Public Safety Security, Oil & Hazards Security, and Long-term Continuity and Management. Currently, members are assisting in the creation of an inventory of City of Tucson generated maps that are on the Pima County servers. In 2-3 months, he will return to the Co-op with the inventory and ask for ideas where these maps and their supporting layers can be stored and accessed on emergency basis.

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