Notes from Chapter Meeting

August 10, 2005, 1:00 – 4:00 PM

CalEPA Sierra Hearing Room

 

Attendance:  Total attendance 43, with 34 signed in. Several attendees joined the Chapter as new members.                                                               

 

Board Members Present: Harold Feinberg, David Hansen, Karen Beardsley, Lorri Peltz-Lewis, & Robert Thomas.

 

Welcome attendees!  This was the fourth Chapter meeting.

 

        I.      Announcements (Harold):

       1. Attendees and members are encouraged to respond to the Chapter survey on the interest and needs. This survey will be used to develop agendas for future meetings and to identify URISA sponsored workshops.

       2. Attendees are encouraged to join as Chapter members. Annual dues are $40.00 ($20.00 for students). Members will not be charged for URISA sponsored workshops held by the Chapter.

       3. The CalGIS Conference was announced for April 5 to 7, 2006, Santa Barbara. Early registration by September 30, 2004 is $99.00. www.calgis.org

       4. Announcement was made for the GIS Certification Institute. The target number of certified GIS Professionals (GISP) world wide by the end of 2005 is 1,000. www.gisci.org

       5. Next Northern California Chapter Meeting is November 9, 2005. Time and place to be determined. Visit www.norcalurisa.org for updated information.

 

    II.      Sponsor acknowledgement: – Thank-you!

o       Refreshments: Metropolis New Media, Inc., San Jose, CA.

o       Meeting Site: CalEPA / Water Resources Board

 

 III.      Presentations (Lorri): The topic for these presentations was customer implementation of different software for geospatial web data access for their organization. The vendors represented included ESRI, Intergraph, and MapInfo.

1.    Dean Angeledes, ESRI, introduced Scott McAdara and Scott Christman of the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD). They presented OSHPD development of an enterprise model for three main business functions. The spatial components are integrated in with the main groups of data in use by the organization for access via the Web. 

 

2.    Eric Bayer and Jeff Hobbs, Intergraph, presented the GeoMedia Web development product. They were unable to have an Intergraph user present a Web application. They presented the development of Web application using the GeoMedia Web product.

 

3.      Cathy Dubrosky, MapInfo, introduced Corisa Goldner of Bay Area Rapid Transit. They presented their award winning implementation of MapInfo for the law enforcement section of BART for a Web service on incident reporting and response.  

 

        I.      Final meeting announcements and thanks to our Sponsors and Speakers