Minutes of the 39th Quarterly Salt Lake GIS Users Group (SLUG) meeting, held on February 21, 2019, from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm at Intermountain Medical Center – Doty Family Education Center (5121 Cottonwood Street) in Murray. There were about 108 in attendance.
Business
Tom Toronto, SLUG Board
Welcome to the IMC - Doty Family Education Center building. Thanks to UGIC for hosting and sponsoring the lunch.
This meeting’s lunch was sponsored by UGIC. 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.
Dave Henrie, Utah County GIS
UGIC conference will be held from May 8th through May 10th at the Zermatt Resort in Midway, Utah. Pre-Conference training workshops will take place on May 6th and May 7th.
Josh Groeneveld, Utah Division of Emergency Management
Maps on the Hill will be held on March 7, 2019 from 9:00 am to noon. Registration for the event closes today.
Presentations
Martijn Van Exel – Telenav
Martijn talked about the state of OpenStreetMap (OSM) from the 1.2 million contributors to the 25 dedicated team map editors. Contributions from local government agencies as well as other volunteer community mapping efforts, have helped corporate map editing teams provide map data to companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Uber and Lyft. OpenStreetMap has also made its way into in-car navigation in millions of vehicles. OpenStreetCam has been used for collecting street level imagery and analyzing images once the data has been collected.
Zach Beck, AGRC
Zach talked about his experience in creating vector tile basemaps. Some of the benefits versus doing a raster tile basemap are being able to create tiles faster, quicker rendering, map styles that can be changed and dynamic labeling. Vector tile creation does require ArcGIS Pro and rendering occurs on the client side in which limited resources can reduce speed.
GIS Humor
Zlatko Grebenar, SLUG Board
Police Officer gives lost woman her GPS to help get her to Florida. You can see this clip HERE.
The next meeting is on April 18, 2019 at 11:30 AM at the new WFRC building at the Gateway Mall in Salt Lake City. More details to follow soon.
If any one is interested in being on the board please reach out, we do have some board members who will be stepping down in the near future. 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. We appreciate your interest and support!