Spatial Data Management Group Meeting Notes For October 18, 2007

Treats: Theresa

Notes: Theresa

Attendees: Terralyn, Matt G., Keith O., Dylan, Heather M, Kuuipo, Kelly C, Bill Diehl, Ken Pierce, and Theresa

Speaker:

Dylan Keon presented his integration work with Google Maps/Google Earth.

Agenda:

Upcoming Meetings:

Report from Open Source Meeting: Matt reported that it was a good meeting. There was a survey of open source software (pdf) or (powerpoint) Both take a while to load. There are many packages that he hadn't heard of. Resurgence with Grass.

Geoprogramming Group: Excellent meeting on Wednesday, with Matt covering Versioning software. Next meeting will be November 28th.

GIS Day November 14th. Janet Ohmann is the keynote speaker. Title:(Seeing the forest and the trees: harnessing GIS to map forests of the Pacific Northwest)

Training needs:

Using LiDar: There is an excellent Forest Service Site. Fusion Site

KML training?

Data:

Kml questions (not sure what our questions were)

Keith is lookig for land fire data, trying to get risk. There is the

Also the wildfire explorer

Prism has new data available. 800 meter of the whole US.

GIS Day Planning:

Opportunity to highlight your research/project before the keynote in 2nd floor Richardson knuckle.

Future Speakers

Yang (keith to ask), info graphics lab (matt to ask), Virtual Earth (Keith to ask Mark Remple)

Round table:

Terralyn - Sequoia down Sunday (10-4) new disk. Cosmos- looking at making open source machine

Kuuipo - New portals: Land Use, Rural communities, Wildlife. Have the GIS portal toolkit and looking at being the spatial data protal for DAS. Hiring Program Manager for the spatial data portal

Theresa - New intern, working on projects for him, LTER grant due in February, so big push there. Trying to work with ArcServer.