Minutes of the 32nd Quarterly Salt Lake GIS Users Group (SLUG) meeting, held on April 26, 2017, from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm at the Utah State Capitol, State Office Building Auditorium. There were about 104 in attendance.
Business
Kaitlin Barklow, SLUG Board
Welcome to all, thanks to AGRC for the venue.
This meeting’s lunch was sponsored by ESRI. If you have any contacts that would be willing to ‘sponsor’ a lunch by providing food/ drinks in exchange for their advertising at the meeting, contact Tom Toronto, SLUG Board member.
The next SLUG meeting will be at the DNR on Aug 9, 2017.
Tom Toronto, SLUG Board
Joe Rhodes wasn’t able to make it today, thanks to ESRI for lunch and their continuing support.
Jessie Pechmann, UGIC Board
UGIC Conference will be held from May 8th to 12th at the Park City Marriott. Still time left to register for conference.
Park City Ghost Tour will be on Thursday, May 11th.
Map Gallery Contest has 5 new categories this year. Best Interactive Web Mapping Application, Highest Return on Investment, Best Map as Art, Best Citizen Engagement Application and Best 8.5 x 11 Map.
Presentations
Adam Radel, UDOT GIS, FME Software Integration
Adam presented on how the UDOT GIS group has implemented the use of Feature Manipulation Engine (FME) integration software to mash up various file formats to create different data outputs in order to automate workflows, save time and prevent errors. UDOT has used the FME software for avalanche notification and snowplow real time tracking where data is continuously processed and updated to web applications.
Dan Jensen, OnLINEFM, Space Occupancy and GIS
Dan talked about integration of GIS with Integrated Work Management System (IWMS) at the Idaho National Laboratory. Some GIS integration challenges included how to handle multiple floors, data transformation and join issues. The results created greater management awareness as to activities in specific labs and found that GIS was used by lots of users.
State of the AGRC – an overview
Bert Granberg – AGRC Director, involved with GIS Legislation, project management, web development
Matt Peters – Data lifecycle, distribution of data & managing developers at AGRC
Scott Davis – Python scripts and web development
Steve Gourley – Spread GIS among everyone, automation through python scripts
Keaton Walker – Geometry tasks, python Scripts, web applications
Jessie Pechmann – Newsletter, Representative for UGIC
Michael Foulger – Database support, license manager
Greg Bunce – Automated desktop workflows, data validation
David Buell – Maintain street and address data, working with dispatch centers
Rick Kelson – Discover server, maintain parcel data for the state, lidar
Sean Fernandez – GPS network, parcel fabric, data accuracy
Mike Heagin – Municipality boundaries, annexations, parcel fabric
GIS Humor
Neal Fraser, SLUG Board
Most Complex International Borders in the World in which a few example of complex borders are reviewed that involve enclaves countries such as San Marino, Vatican City and Lesotho. You can see this clip HERE.
Thank you to our presenters and our venue. If you have any ideas for a presentation or any other matter, please contact a SLUG board member. And thanks for your interest and support!