Spatial Data Management Group Meeting Thursday June 16th Richardson 313: 10:00 am

Treats: Matt

Notes: Theresa

Attendees: George L, John W, David W-H, Matt G, Terralyn V, Theresa V, and Kelly C

Agenda:

Meetings:

Python Group: next meeting June 22

Geoprocessing and Scripting class in Salem on May 31, 2005. (report will be given at Python Meeting)

Oregon GIS Standards meeting in The Dalles on June 30. They'll be discussing Land Use/Land Cover classification, among other topics. (John was interested in attending)

SCGIS Meeting: July 31-August 2 in Monterey, CA - As of yet, nobody is planning on attending

ESRI Users Conference: July 25-29 in San Diego, CA - Theresa, George will be attending.

Ken will be attending a Society for Conservation Biology meeting in Brazil this summer

ArcGIS Server training in September: Matt, Terralyn, and Sean will be attending.

NW ESRI User/Training Conference September 26th - 30th in Sunriver, Oregon.

Federal Science Day was rescheduled to: (theresa checking on the date)

Upcoming training:

plotter...after July (theresa), someone sends documents to fsl plotter...arg)

sensitivity analysis using SimLab (ken)

Imagine class in PDX on rectifying photos (theresa went to and was great class)

Intro to ArcGIS version 9...(theresa now has materials to teach this 3 day class)

Updating the GIS HelpDesk: (status report)

George offered to look at, Kelly has done some work looking at it.

Data Storage Issues:

We had a discussion on the funding mechanizm for web services and /data/fordata. For web services, the idea was floated that the charge should be per project, not website, and for /data/fordata, in previous meeting we had asked for it to be included as a base fee (taken off the Unix side), and Theresa, Terralyn, and Kathy Howell need to get together to talk about this. Noted that /data/fordata needs to be cleaned up, lots of junk there.

Set up for ArcServer and ArcIMS update:

Mercator is up and is the arcims production server (http://wwwgis.forestry.oregonstate.edu/website/(website name here). zephyrus is the development machine with arcgis server and arcims. both are at version 9 service pack 3 (not up to 9.1 yet)

GIS Day 2005 Planning Update:

nothing new to report

Version 9.1 Update:

Theresa to ask Mark if he has it yet. Report is that you can save .mxd files as version 8.3 files, and that you can read 9.0 .mxd files. Other enhancements:

Added Network Analyst

ArcGIS Schematics allows ArcGIS users to generate, visualize, and manipulate diagrams from their data,

Improved quality, stability, and performance—ArcGIS 9.1 includes user-requested quality improvements and enhancements across all products and adds support for large datasets.

Improved geoprocessing—ArcGIS 9.1 matches the graphical user interface with the geoprocessing functionality by adding geoprocessing tools to the ArcGIS Desktop products: 63 tools to ArcView, 86 tools to ArcEditor, and 22 tools to ArcInfo.

New easy-to-use Merge tool for combining data.

Productivity enhancements—Pan to selection, pause drawing, better support for longer field names, Swipe tool, and much more.

Save As tool to ease migration—The Save As tool allows users to save a copy of documents (.mxd, .sxd, .lyr) as in version 8.3 with no changes required in 8.3 projects.

Better Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.™ (OGC™), support—ArcGIS 9.1 offers broader support of OGC map standards including Web Map Service, Web Feature Service, and Catalog Services.

New improved data—With ArcGIS 9.1, all users have access to 150-meter worldwide natural view imagery and nationwide street data.

Upcoming speakers (possibilities):

Jeff McDonnell, OSU Forest Engineering -- Hydrologic Observatory Jeff Nighbert on using Visual Nature Studio (perhaps a special longer training/seminar?) Visualization tag team: ArcGlobe (Theresa) and Visual Nature Studio (Keith) Remote Sensing topic? Jonathan Thompson

Round Table:

John: Arcobjects 8.3 code will run on 9.0 (he was very happy)
Kelly: 3 Oregon Department of Forestry Guys are looking at the CLAMS landslide model for their use on private landslides
David: Date modified does not show up for geodatabase when in ArcCatalog. Question is the date in the metadata process step?
George has a link to a National Park Service (NPS) metadata extension.
George sent out this link last month: ArcGIS Helpdesk
George will also be doing 2 metadata workshops in August.
Matt: working with xml and stylesheets. Suggested he talk to Yang about EML.
Terralyn: OSU put out call to Forestry Computing to see if they were interested in campus-wide Oracle, and Terralyn indicated 'No'. Cost was very high, and no local expertise.