Tucson GIS Co-op

Agenda

1. Introductions: Name, Organization, Position or Title. What do you do and what projects are you currently working on? What GIS products or software do you use? Have you learned any new GIS-related tips and tricks?

2. Business

• Education: GeoDatabase , ArcGIS and GPS classes and seminars
• SAIAT
• GIS Intern position (Peter Johnson) Peter informed the Coop the selected candidate quit on the first day in order to seek a better position and that they would like to start the process over again in order to get better candidates.
• PAG Ortho ’08 Project (Manny Rosas) In Manny’s absence, Peter let the coop know that a vendor has been selected and that PAG has moved the process forward to the various regional committees for their input.
• GDB Subcommittee (Steve Whitney) Progress was made in figuring out how update event tables when changes occur in the route system. This would have been a major obstacle in moving to a linear referencing system.
• ePortal update (Steve Whitney) No updates.
• Executive Committee (Dave Koss) No updates.

3. Events

• Monday, October 22, there is a presentation by Multivision on oblique imagery in the main conference room at PAG (2pm).
• GIS Fair, November 16^th
• SWUG, October 30-November 1st

4. Presentation: In-house Quality Control Procedures for Conventional and Airborne GPS Mapping

§ Rick Bunger

5. Possible topics or new business for future meetings. What does the group want to talk about?

• INEGI
• Federal Agency geospatial activities in southern Arizona
• Atypical GIS user (AZ state lottery/CPS/Indian Health Services)
• Space GIS / Planetary mapping from the U of A
• U of A grad student research

o Geography

o Architecture

o MIS

• Mapping websites

o www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

o www.gutenkarte.org/

o www.planetgs.com/

o www.osgeo.gov/

• Arizona State Museum
• Corporate GIS (GE/Raytheon)
• US Postal Service
• Medical GIS

6. Open Floor

• Discussion of the city purchasing an enterprise version of Google Earth (Tom Victory – Tucson Water) Little interest was shown by the members. However the suggestion was made that Google maps may provide similar capabilities without installing anything.
• Availability/notification of updates to new & interesting feature classes such as Street Car Route and Rio Nuevo (Tom Victory – Tucson Water)
• Some interest in an AM/FM for the region