Spatial Data Management
Group Meeting Notes
Tuesday,
October 16, 2001
Introductions
New guys: Andrew Yolst, FS student w/ Doug McGuire and Steve
Van Tuyl, FS student w/ Bev Law
Somewhat Regulars: Michael, Jennifer Swenson, Kelly Christiansen,
Terralyn Vandetta, Teresa Valentine, Ray Drapek, Sharon Clarke, Matt Gregory,
Yang, Ken Vance-Borland, Don Henshaw, George Lienkaemper.
Awards
Nov 1 ArcGIS tips and
tricks-- Theresa Valentine
Nov 15 Arcview - ArcGIS
conversion George L.
Nov 29 Unix-data tricks for
Arc data management- Terralyn &
Matt Gregory
Teresa V. and Janet Ohmann
are figuring out how to get funding from people who will use the plotter. There
has not been much response on who wants to use it with what paper, etc. (email
sent out last week). Plotter colors are UV tolerant, but the colors print out
somewhat faded to begin with-- so you might want to increase your color
saturation (ie. change colors) before you print.
If you have ESRI questions,
we must go through 1 of 3 people (due to the OSU site license program), and
that person for us is Matt!
George L is in charge of
signing up people for the Arc virtual campus courses.
It was agreed upon by
participants that these free virtual courses are 'real good'.
(Sharon Clarke sent out an email to the forgis list a while ago concerning
course information)
This position is now
advertised. We looked over the job announcement. The position will provide
technical support for web-related questions for the College of Forestry.
Nov 5 they will begin to
review applications.
George L. says that this
metadata server node is moving from Seattle to Corvallis. Essentially this node
is a place to advertise the availability of information. All metadata can be
posted there by the GIS community and can be linked to the actual data
elsewhere. USGS-NBS
The metadata must be in FDGC
or NBII formats and must consist of a text file and a SGML file.
Less than a month and
counting! We need some help, we need some inspiration!! Do you have any?? Dawn Wright (the normal inspirational person)
is on sabbatical. Anyone out there
interested in doing anything for GIS day? Poster sessions have been successful
in the past, the tours etc. were not as well attended. Maybe need to develop a
workshop for the future, but probably not for this year. Participation is
welcome and the field is wide open.
Nov 15 1pm - 4pm; CH2Mhill
Alumni Center
Presenters: ArcIMS - Theresa
Jeanine Salwasser Nat. Res. Institute
and
somebody else..
announcement
will be coming out soon
Spatial analysis
seminar—this week’s speaker:
David Hulse,
Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture Institute for a
Sustainable
Environment, University of Oregon
"Pacific Northwest Ecosystem Research Consortium (PNW-ERC)"
3:30 pm Rich 313
Technical things:
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LTER-- is planning on
purchasing Cold Fusion ('middle-ware) to develop webpages
(up until now, LTER has used
Perl
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NT backup capabilities:
The problem of how to back up an NT machine to the network drive N:\. Michael
and others are interested in getting a program to do this. Michael will write
to the list when he figures out to do a automated manner.
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C++ programmer wanted --
Botany Dept. position is actually with Ron Nielson’s group
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Sharon Clark send off
party! Nov 1st 3pm in the new conference room (she's got a USGS position in
Washington state)
Next meeting
December 6th 10:00 (St.
Nicholas Day-- put your shoes out the night before)
Keep-us-on-tracker: Theresa
V.
Homebaked Cookies:
Kelly C
Notetaker: Jennifer