Spatial Data Management Group July 2009 Meeting Notes

Attending:

Theresa Valentine, Kelly Christiansen, Matt Gregory, Keith Olsen, Patti Haggerty, Tad L, Ron, Marc

Treats:Patti

Notes: Kelly

Facilitator: Keith

Main Topic:

ESRI Users conference Wrap up

Meetings:

NW Users conf. – Sun River, OR – Oct 12 – 16

SilviLaser 2009– College Station, TX – Oct 14th – 16th

All Scientist Meeting, Estes Park, CO – Sept 14 – 16th

Training Opportunities/Needs:

GIS Programming Practicum, GEO 599, Using Python scripting with ArcGis – Tracy Kulger, instructor

SDMG Geoprograming group : web site is up and running, not a lot of action as of late.

Enhancing your ArcGis Experience - .MSD files – T.Val will do next time.

Data

T.Val is working on putting together Resource Natural Areas for Oregon and Wasthington. kc suggested that the USGS may have done something like that for the US and will investigate.

Conservation Biology Institute (CBI) – Data Basin – web tool to connect conservation datasets, tools and people together.

Independent Research group findings – that data are in!:

Software

ArcGis 9.3.1: Available on the network

Python 2.4 is supported in this version, but current versions are not, 2.5.4 python will be supported in 9.4 release

Py-R discussion. Nuf said

Round Table

Keith - wants folks to submit any good code snippets or advice to the geoprogramming group page. Also discussed an R module for reading ArcInfo(?)

Tad – happy to be included in such a wonderful group

Marc – will work on cleaning up some code pieces and post on the GPgroup page. Rocked hard at the ESRI conference.

Ron – Did a live demo of his web site at workshop held locally. Went well

Matt – New GNN grids for the NWForest Plan area and Califonia based on the 2006 work. Also doing lots of programming.

T.Val – wowed them at the Users conference with her Flex-map whilst at the Forest Service booth in San Diego.

Patti – Loving writing proposals. Can’t wait to write more of them. New LiDAR data for the Elwa River soon. Went to a meeting in Bend with parties interested in obtaining LiDAR for the Deschutes basin (Dogami sponsored).