Northwest Indiana
GIS Forum
Meeting Notes
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Meeting Location: Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission
Members in
Attendance:
Joe Alamillo, City of Hammond;
Joe Eberts, Lake County Parks; Tricia Gleason, Elkhart County; Kim
Holmquist, School City of Hammond;
Eman Ibrahim, NIRPC;
Shannan Lefever, NIRPC;
Naida Lehmann,
Saint Mary's College; Kathy Luther, NIRPC; Joy Marburger, National Parks Service; Elizabeth McCloskey,
US Fish & Wildlife; Becky McKinley, Hammond Sanitary District;
Bill Meeks, City of Crown Point Engineering; Danny Milenkovic; Melissa
Mischke, LaPorte County;
Cele Morris, IUN/NWI Center for Data &
Analysis; Richard
Morrisroe, City of East Chicago; David Nail, USGS; Leigh Neace-Coffey,
URS Corp; Bill Neinast, Taltree Arboretum; Dan Niksch, City of Crown Point
Engineering;
George Olmsted; Dan Reiden, Lake County Parks; Eric Rodenberg,
ESRI; Joyce West, Sidwell; Dave Smith, ESRI
Abbreviated Meeting - ESRI Presentation - New Features for Geodatabase in
ArcGIS 9.2
Local Implementation
Becky McKinley has tried a number of
different applications to help the
City of Hammond Mayor's Task Force on
Housing easily access and view data tied to project housing stock. She
recently converted datasets so that they can be viewed through Google Earth
software. She expects feedback on usability of this application in the
near future.
The National Lakeshore will
be meeting with personnel from the University of Wisconsin soon to discuss
an historic landuse project.
NWI GIS Forum Activities
Training
Becky held an ArcGIS 9.2
training session for 15 attendees at IUN on Oct. 18-19. Nine books
remain and a second session will be scheduled for January. There is
already a waiting list for training. Becky does not expect that she
will advertise for additional participants.
Visit the ESRI
website for any additional free webinars currently available.
Lake Rim GIS Update
Work to upgrade the Lake Rim GIS interactive mapping
website is underway. The Indiana Geological Survey is coordinating
testing and development of an updated Arc IMS viewer. Appropriate
datasets are being acquired and prepared for loading. All data on the
site will include metadata. The addition of local datasets is highly
desired. Anyone interested in participating by providing datasets is
encouraged to contact
or
.
Administration
Due to changes in Indiana Geological Survey hardware
and software, the Online Metadata Tool is not currently functional.
The IGS advises that they hope to be able to upgrade the Tool to provide a
more user friendly interface by the end of December. Metadata training
sessions will be scheduled once the Online Metadata Tool is operational.
Meeting notes will continue to be posted to
the NWI GIS Forum website as soon as possible after meetings (click on
Minutes).
Resource links were recently checked and updated/removed where necessary.
Please contact with any comments or input on the website.
IGIC Report
The annual
Indiana GIS
conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Indianapolis on
February 19 - 20, 2008. Early reports indicate that there will be
other big activities taking place in Indy at this time and it is recommended
that hotel reservations be made as soon as possible.
Election for the IGIC Board of Director's is currently
underway. NWI GIS Forum members currently nominated for the Board are
Cele Morris representing the Regional GIS Consortia Sector and Joyce West of
Sidwell representing the Commercial GIS Service Provider Sector.
Members of IGIC
are encouraged to vote by the deadline of December 14, 2007.
Jim Sparks has been named the new Indiana State
Geographic Information Officer. He will be responsible for
coordination of GIS implementation between state and local entities.
Next Meeting: Next meeting:
Thursday, February, 14, 2008, at Indiana University Northwest
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