Attendees: George Lienkaemper, Martha Cavit, Christian Torgersen, Ken Vance-Borland, Terralyn Vandetta, Kelly Christianson, Jerry Hull, Ray Drapek, Sean SanRomani, Keith Olsen, Linda Ashkenas, Theresa Valentine, and Sharon Clarke
Awards: Theresa and Ray for metadata, Matt for Treats, Sharon for notes
Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project Maps: There are some of these nice shaded relief maps in FSL 269 up for grabs.
Willamette Atlas: Linda Ashkenas passed around the new Willamette Atlas. This version should be available soon. The cost is $55.00. This is a subsidized version and only 1000 copies were ordered. Subsequent printings may be more expensive. Most of the data is or will be available online-http://www.orst.edu/dept/pnw-erc/ and a pdf version on the atlas should also be available online.
ArcSDE update: Sean San Romani reported that he just received version 8.2 for workstations and windows that he will put on Rocky. This version is supposed to fix the handling of raster images. Theresa Valentine will be attending ArcSDE training in Eugene next week. Keith Olsen will look into going as well.
ArcIMS status: Terralyn has version 4.0. With this and the updated ArcSDE we should be able to use raster data in ArcIMS. Theresa will play around with this new version and will give another training session if it seems to be working.
New web page/image of the month/visibility: Theresa gave the web page a face-lift. It looks great. She requests images for the image of the month. Kelly Christiansen was elected by popular demand to design a logo for the spatial data management group. This should help give the group some higher visibility. Right now it is hard to find.
OUS/GIS group: The Oregon University System GIS group. Theresa sent out the notes from the last meeting and will send out information on the next meeting that will be July 12 on the Old Conference Room in FSL. This meeting will be to help flush out a web interface to digital data, going to the data, not just links to data
Geospatial Statistics Training: Sept30-October 4, 2 2-day sessions: requested by ECOP. It is open to anyone and OSU extension is running the training. Cost is $300. Theresa will send out the details soon. Chris Torgersen mentioned that he had some articles on linear spatial statistics that he would share if anyone was interested.
College of Forestry Computing Resources External Review: Aug 13. There is a time slot open for GIS people to talk to the review committee in the afternoon.
Plotter in 345 "Papa Smurf"...UV or Regular ink: Question is whether to switch from UV to regular ink. Cost would be less and there are more paper options, but it will fade. It will also cost a couple 1000 to switch, but the colors might be better. For right now we will stay with the UV and assess the color.
GIS Day is November 20th, 2002: will do something. Sharon, Theresa and Linda if she is around will work on this.
ESRI Conference: George Lienkaemper is attending. If anyone has any issues for him to take to the DR.'s office let him know.
Discussion of tech vs. science roles of GIS analysts: Matt met with Lisa Ganio and Phil Sollins regarding this issue. He will report at the next meeting.
Other Topics: Discussed ways to increase the awareness of the SDMG meetings and the forgis mailing list. Jerry will add anyone who gets ArcGIS loaded on their PC to the forgis mailing list and if they don't want to be on it, they can request to be taken off. The next meeting will be held in Richardson and it will be put in the part of the staff bulletin that is sent to all partner agencies. Theresa Valentine will forward message from Chris Daly regarding the MODOS climate data. Chris Torgenson is attending the GIS in fisheries meeting in England this sept and he also has a copy of the proceedings of the last conference held in Seattle.