Spatial Data Management Group Meeting Notes For September 24, 2009

Treats: Marc

Notes: Tad

Facilitator: Patti

Attendees: Patti, Matt, Theresa, Kelly, Terralyn, Ron, Marc, Tad

Agenda:

Upcoming Meetings:

  • NW GIS User Conference Sunriver (Oct 12-16):
  • ASPRS Meeting in Vancouver, WA, October 2nd:
  • LTER - LTER All Scientist meeting in CO (Sept 14th – 16th)Teresa went and demoed LTERmaps and helped with aLIDAR session. Speaker RSGAL fact sheets.
  • SilviLaser 2009 in Texas Station (Oct 14th – 16th) – Dave going
  • 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Bellevue (near Seattle), WA November 4-6 website.
  • URISA 2009 - Providing Solutions to Challenges September 29-October 2, 2009 Anaheim, California
  • GSA Annual meeting in PDX (Oct 18th – 21st)

    Training needs:

  • GSA meeting has 2 LIDAR classes
  • GEO 599: Python Geoprocessing class
  • .MSD info from Theresa at next meeting
  • Geospatial analysis on-line book

    • Software:

  • ArcGIS 9.4 beta testing Note, you can run both 9.3.1 and 9.4 at the same time– Theresa signed up
  • Oregon ArcServer group
  • Space-time extension for ArcGIS 9.3

    Data:

    GIS Day: Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

    Planning a lunch and keynote. One of the Google Earth team members. Stay tuned for plans

    Round table:

    Matt: Hawth’s tools no longer supported, X Tools 6 now available (improved kml functionality),

    Kml to shp tool (click on link for the tool)

  • 1. Go into Google Earth and draw a polygon
  • 2. Right click on the polygon in the 'My Places' menu and choose 'Save Place As'.
  • 3. Save the file to your hard drive as a KMZ file (e.g. 'foo.kmz')
  • 4. At the website above, click the Upload KML/KMZ button and then 'Choose File'
  • 5. Navigate to your KMZ file on your hard drive and click 'Accept'.
  • 6. Optionally, choose a coordinate system (I chose UTM Zone 10 Northern Hemisphere)
  • 7. Click 'Process KML Data'. This should find your polygon that you created
  • 8. Under Export, click Polygons (outter) (yes, a misspelling)
  • 9. In the dialog box that comes up, click 'Download'. This will download a zipped shapefile
  • 10. Bring the shapefile into ArcMap and it should look correct.
    Google Earth now has a time slider

    Theresa: GIS day for GISers coming soon – see above, Puerto Rico published maps (FS technical reports)

    Ron – Demoed program; went well

    Marc – Google earth toolbar for ArcMap – will share with others

    Patti: LIDAR on USGS server (Image Service), GeoPortal tool – metadata problems (reading xml), ENVI X installed

    Next Meeting: October 22, Theresa on .msd files

    Treats: Terralyn

    Notes: Theresa

    Facilitator: Matt