Iowa GIS News

[igic] MAGIC Symposium Scholarships

Lemke, Paula — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:59:38 +0000

[igic] Landscape and Remote Sensing Analyst Position - Ames

Kane, Kevin L [ITACD] — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:08:42 +0000

[igic] MAGIC 2012 Exhibitors and Sponsors

Lemke, Paula — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:10:07 +0000

[igic] GIS Technician Position

Pete Buckingham — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:43:41 +0000

Re: [igic] IGIC Quarterly Meeting Minutes

Micah E. Cutler — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:12:17 +0000

[igic] TIF/Urban Renewal info?

Heather Roberts — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:58:05 +0000

[igic] ArcPad buffer

Ryan Lafrenz — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:18:15 +0000

[igic] Metadata workshop invitation

Giglierano, James [DNR] — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:21:44 +0000

[igic] In House Plat Books

Megan Moeller — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:06:20 +0000

[igic] More on the LightSquared-GPS issue

Giglierano, James [DNR] — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:43:51 +0000

[igic] Social Club Update (last one)

Ryan Smith — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:52:16 +0000

[igic] Last Call for Social Club - Raccoon River Brewery

Ryan Smith — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:17:51 +0000

[igic] Metadata Survey Results are posted!

Logan, Amy A [ITACD] — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:57:50 +0000

[igic] Job Opening

Lemke, Paula — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:06:54 +0000

[igic] flood conference flyer

Lemke, Paula — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:44:07 +0000

[igic] IGIC Social Club - February

Ryan Smith — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:45:54 +0000

[igic] FW: Agenda - 2/8/12 Quarterly Mtg

Paoli, Jon [HSEMD] — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:12:23 +0000

[igic] Map to IGIC Quarterly Meeting - 2/8/2012

Paoli, Jon [HSEMD] — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:48:19 +0000

Re: [igic] Board meeting tomorrow

Micah E. Cutler — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:20:33 +0000

[igic] MAGIC 2012: Keynote Speakers certain to inspire!

Lemke, Paula — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:55:31 +0000

[igic] ESRI Superbowl Map

Seeger, Christopher J [L A] — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:15:33 +0000

[igic] Agenda - 2/8/12 Quarterly Mtg

Paoli, Jon [HSEMD] — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:43:29 +0000

[igic] MAGIC 2012 Short Courses - Sign Up Today!

Lemke, Paula — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:25:31 +0000

[igic] Iowa GIS Service Bureau

Koester, Evan [DNR] — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:46:44 +0000

[igic] Image Service Use in AutoCAD

Nikki Breitsprecker — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:11:24 +0000

[igic] Cherokee County GPS Intern

Lindsay Bressler — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:53:57 +0000

[igic] One Last Reminder: Iowa Metadata Outreach Project - Metadata Survey

Logan, Amy A [ITACD] — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:19:06 +0000

[igic] MAGIC 2012: Program Overview

Lemke, Paula — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:21:42 +0000

[igic] Spring 2012 GIS Seminar Series!

Haddad, Monica [C R P] — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:54:28 +0000

[igic] Regional GIS Meetings Survey

Matt J. Boeck — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:58:57 +0000

[igic] GIS Toolbox Conservation Subdivisions

Cedar County GIS — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:14:08 +0000

[igic] MAGIC 2012 - Don't forget to book your travel!

Lemke, Paula — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:41:27 +0000

[igic] Redistricting news

Giglierano, James [DNR] — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:53:22 +0000

[igic] Reminder: Iowa Metadata Outreach Project - Metadata Survey

Logan, Amy A [ITACD] — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:59:14 +0000

[igic] In the billiards room

Ryan Smith — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:10:59 +0000

[igic] MAGIC 2012 - MAGIC DIGITAL PROJECT SHOWCASE

Lemke, Paula — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:56:56 +0000

[igic] Update on Social Club gathering

Ryan Smith — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:14:09 +0000

[igic] First Quarterly IGIC Social

Ryan Smith — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:43:06 +0000

[igic] City GIS positions: Job descriptions/salary

Heather Roberts — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:39:58 +0000

[igic] Iowa Metadata Outreach Project - Metadata Survey

Logan, Amy A [ITACD] — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:02:10 +0000

[igic] Speakers for ISU GIS Certificate Seminar

Kane, Kevin L [ITACD] — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:04:26 +0000

[igic] Brenda Swaim/COA is out of the office.

Brenda Swaim — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:03:17 +0000

[igic] New for MAGIC 2012! Geospatial Sponsor Recognitions

Lemke, Paula — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:01:30 +0000

[igic] LightSquared Update on GPS Interference

Kane, Kevin L [ITACD] — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:20:48 +0000

[igic] Contract for GIS database maintenance

Whipple, Anna — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:06:29 +0000

[igic] GIS in Court Cases?

Cedar County GIS — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:12:31 +0000

Re: [igic] GIS Skills

Micah E. Cutler — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:50:17 +0000

[igic] Python scripting help

Megan Moeller — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:33:53 +0000

[igic] Public Cloud Hosting RFP

Whipple, Anna — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:32:16 +0000

[igic] MAGIC Symposium Registration and Preliminary Program Now Available

Lemke, Paula — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:52:17 +0000

[igic] FGDC ISO Metadata Summit Webinar, Dec 7, 2011, 2-3:30 EST

Lemke, Paula — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:37:01 +0000

[igic] Source Water GIS Training

Giglierano, James [DNR] — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:30:27 +0000

[igic] GIS Technician Position

David Bayer — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:19:33 +0000

[igic] Happy GIS Day 2011

Giglierano, James [DNR] — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:46:05 +0000

[igic] 2012 NSDI CAP posted on Grants.gov

Kane, Kevin L [ITACD] — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:55:37 +0000

[igic] Eastern Iowa GIS User Group Meeting - Nov 30th - Agenda and Registration

Rick Havel — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:56:54 +0000

[igic] ArcPad 10

Combs, Jeff D. — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:50:04 +0000

[igic] Eastern Iowa GIS User Group Meeting - November 30th!

Rick Havel — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:32:48 +0000

[igic] Geographic Transformation

Combs, Jeff D. — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:49:05 +0000

Re: [igic] Geography Education

Micah E. Cutler — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:28:07 +0000

[igic] Brenda Swaim/COA is out of the office.

Brenda Swaim — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:02:19 +0000

[igic] MAGIC 2012: It's not too late to participate!

Lemke, Paula — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:29:41 +0000

Re: [igic] Fall Quarterly Meeting Minutes

Micah E. Cutler — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:30:50 +0000

[igic] FW: Webinar Invitation: 2012 National Spatial Data Infrastructure Cooperative Agreements Program (NSDI CAP)

Kane, Kevin L [ITACD] — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:40:13 +0000

[igic] quarterly meeting dial-in information

Brad Cutler — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:01:45 +0000

[igic] Map Guide open source

Tim Wagner — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:11:28 +0000

Re: [igic] 2011 NAIP Download

Micah E. Cutler — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:30:55 +0000

[igic] IGI Status Report

Giglierano, James [DNR] — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:33:19 +0000

Jim Giglierano — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:27:00 +0000

IGI and Related GIS Activities

Status October 19, 2011

Due to state budget cuts this past spring, many IGI projects were delayed while we sorted out the impact. Several DNR contract workers have been moved to positions at ISU’s GIS Facility, including Zeb Squires and Jesse Soukup (geocoding) and Cody Hackney (historical orthos). Thanks to Kevin Kane and Robin McNeeley at the ISU GIS Facility for making lemonade out of lemons.

The Iowa Geocoding Project has been reorganized, with ISU GIS Facility playing a major role. We are on schedule to release 50 counties of address points and structure points for western Iowa in January. Second round of Pooled Technology funding was awarded to the project in July for $194,000, which will help finish up western Iowa and start on NE Iowa. Final application for Pooled Tech funding to finish eastern Iowa got third place in annual competition with other state IT projects. We won’t know the outcome until next June but the project now has a chance to be completed on time in two and a half years.

State GIS Service Bureau - Evan Koester hired under contract with ISU GIS Facility, and has a good start working with other state agencies to create GIS needs inventory. He is also providing one-on-one training as needed. State Agency GIS steering committee met in September and did something. Needs inventory due out in January, with business plan by July. Project runs until December 2012.

FGDC Return On Investment CAP Grant in progress. Mary Ann Stewart continues interviewing economic development agencies that are using GIS. Interesting metrics from Priority One economic development group in Cedar Rapids that may help us to estimate the benefits of increased GIS use for entire state. Funding ends December 31, final report due end of March.

FGDC Metadata CAP Grant project was finally launched with the hiring of Amy Logan of Ames to be the Metadata Outreach Coordinator for the project. She will work with local, state and federal agencies to create badly needed metadata for publicly available GIS layers, and place metadata records on the updated Iowa Geospatial Data Clearinghouse, which is getting an upgrade with ESRI Geoportal software. Metadata training classes will be offered early in 2012 and open to everyone. The hiring of Amy for this position means that there are now two GIS service bureau persons at work in Iowa, both of which are contracted through the ISU GIS Facility. Additional funding for 2 years was requested in the current Pooled Technology application.

Related GIS Projects:

USDA color 1 meter NAIP Imagery has been flown for Iowa this past summer and will shortly be available on the ISU Ortho Server and NRGIS Library. Stay tuned.

Historical Orthophotography Project continues with the release of the 1980’s collection of aerial imagery, which was flown by USGS in their National Aerial Photography Program during the early 1980’s. These images are color-infrared photography. Gregg Hadish of NRCS has a web service http://ags.gis.iastate.edu/ArcGISServer/rest/services/Ortho/ortho_1980/ImageServer
and the county files will be available shortly on the NRGIS Library and ISU Ortho Server. That leaves imagery from the 1970s and 1960s needed to complete the decadal collections.

Stream centerlines and bank break lines continue to be digitized by the Iowa Flood Center and DNR staff in Iowa CIty, for the statewide floodplain mapping project. Contact chris.kahle@dnr.iowa.gov for details.

High resolution land cover project at DNR continues. Contact pete.kollasch@dnr.iowa.gov for details.

DNR will receive an EPA Wetland Development Grant starting in January 2012. The grant will develop procedures for mapping buried tile lines and identify areas where crops are disturbed by standing water using remote sensing imagery and lidar data. Contact Jim Giglierano for details james.giglierano@dnr.iowa.gov

[igic] FW: Agenda for October 19th IGIC Quarterly Mtg

Giglierano, James [DNR] — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:31:47 +0000

[igic] ArcHydro 2.0

Cedar County GIS — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:37:23 +0000

[igic] REMINDER!!! Time running out! 2012 MAGIC Award nominations - GIS Coordination, Innovation and Service

Kane, Kevin L [ITACD] — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:37:36 +0000

[igic] October IGIC GIS Newsletter

Giglierano, James [DNR] — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:36:23 +0000

Jim Giglierano — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:46:00 +0000

IGIC Newsletter Oct 10, 2011

Next IGIC Quarterly Meeting Oct 19 at 10am - 3pm, Johnston Public Library

Socializing begins at 930am.

Flood Imagery of Dubuque after Heavy Rains
Joshua McNary ( jmcnary@aerialservicesinc.com)
Aerial Services Inc, has two articles about “flood” imagery taken by ASI after the 12-15” rain in Dubuque County last summer:

http://www.asi-gis.com/blog/2011/07/aerial-services-acquires-flood-imagery-after-15-overnight-rain-in-dubuque-iowa-shares-with-city-coun.html

Related article with Nikki: http://www.asi-gis.com/blog/2011/09/gis-reacts-to-major-flood-story-of-dubuque-iowas-record-rain-event.html

Iowa 4-H and GIS
David Runneals (david@runneals.com)
AMES, Iowa – Teenage 4-H scientists say they are “restoring something old with something new.” The something old is a bur oak savannah in the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge. The something new is geographic information systems (GIS) mapping using mobile phones.

The Iowa 4-H’ers are one of four teams of 4-H members in four states that are carrying out GIS mapping with national wildlife refuges, fish hatcheries or other ecological services offices, said Jay Staker, director of Iowa State University Extension Science, Engineering and Technology (E-SET). ISU Extension is leading the effort with the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Kansas, Minnesota and New York also are involved in the project. The four states are sharing the $73,000 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grant that funds the effort.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has stated that GIS soon will become so prevalent in natural resources management that organizations without some GIS capability will be at a severe disadvantage.
Karen Viste-Sparkman, a wildlife biologist at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, was glad to receive the call from Staker. “He was working with 4-H groups and they had a grant to work on a national wildlife refuge. We got excited about it because they wanted to do GIS work … and that’s one of the things we really need more of here,” Viste-Sparkman said.

The Iowa 4-H’ers are using GIS on iPhones to map the locations of remnant bur oak and shagbark hickory trees that have been invaded by exotic non-fire tolerant trees in the wildlife refuge.
“We have an iPhone app that talks with the ISU GIS department server, so we get real-time interaction,” said 4-H Tech Team member David Runneals. “What’s cool about this project is we actually get to use technology and that we also get out in the field to get experience.”

Volunteer 4-H leader Debbie Stevens noted the need for GIS, “but a lot of folks, especially nonprofits or governmental entities cannot afford to just hire someone. Our youth in 4-H are learning real world skills. This is a professional-level occupation now. … So not only are they having fun, they’re gaining knowledge, they’re learning technology skills, information management and personal development for future careers.”
The 4-H’ers will continue to do GIS mapping over the summer months to identify the locations of as many bur oaks, hickories and other species as possible, Stevens said. Then in the winter months when the ground is frozen, the refuge staff can do maintenance, removing dead or diseased trees as well as trees that don’t belong in a bur oak savannah.

“This GIS mapping project engages 4-H youth as citizen scientists to conduct relevant research that will have an impact for both the Fish and Wildlife Service and the 4-H’ers,” Staker said. “The Fish and Wildlife Service gets data for habitat protection, conservation, restoration and other uses. The youth get opportunities to serve their states with meaningful research. They also develop skills that could lead them to pursue degrees and careers such as wildlife biology, natural resource management, science, community planning, recreation or agriculture.”

Whole Article: http://www.extension.org/pages/60718/4-hers-use-gis-on-iphones-to-map-trees-at-neal-smith-national-wildlife-refuge
Video: http://vimeo.com/22608228

IGIC Public Health Committee
Simon Geletta (Simon.Geletta@dmu.edu)
The IGIC health committee has a new member - Ms. Meghan Harris who is Executive Officer II - Data Warehouse Coordinator at the Iowa Dept of Public Health (IDPH). We hope to hold a teleconference to do some planning this coming November.

Des Moines Area Regional GIS
Anna Whipple [awwhipple@dmgov.org]
The City of Des Moines recently completed enhancements to the Des Moines Area Regional Geographic Information System (GIS) to support hazard identification and risk assessment. The Regional GIS participants included Polk County, Des Moines, and several Des Moines suburbs, and the project was funded in part through a FEMA subgrant. A consultant team from Indiana University, University of Iowa, and University of Northern Iowa was hired to assess local GIS data, to map hazards and assets in the region, and to develop a GIS-based
methodology for modeling vulnerability and estimated losses from hazards. The consultants and Regional GIS participants:

•       Developed quality local GIS data for buildings, infrastructure, facilities, and populations exposed to potential hazards
•       Deployed and trained on HAZUS-MH, FEMA’s standard GIS software for hazard risk assessment, and other applicable GIS analysis methods
•       Created processes for updating regional asset data from many sources and packaging the data in a HAZUS-ready format

HUD Grant Ideas
Herb Kuehne [hkuehne@cableone.net]
Several weeks ago, Jim Giglierano invited me to help him write a HUD grant that would enable IGIC to assist 16 southeastern Iowa counties in assembling a battery of GIS data that could be used for community development planning in the region. Jim decided that we didn’t have time to write the grant, but the idea got me started exploring other ways that IGIC might seek grant money. Health care is huge preoccupation in our culture (who wants to die?) and ways to deliver it more effectively would probably be of interest to grant-funding organizations. I’m currently researching about how IGIC might propose GIS work that would provide geographic data important for suggesting ways to deliver health care more effectively.   Collecting extensive geocoded data on residences, medical care facilities, pharmacies, grocery stores, and lots of 2010 demographic data might provide the kind of information that could then be analyzed. I sometimes feel that we don’t do enough “analysis” of the data we collect. Analysis of a complex set of data on something like rural health care delivery might really show why GIS is such a powerful tool….and why IGIC is such a great group of people, too!

Low Distortion Projections
Roger Patocka [patocka32@yourstarnet.net]
The State Land Surveyors of Iowa and the IDOT group working on LDP’s apparently reached a consensus that a 20 ppm (1:50,000) distortion design is acceptable as long as ten to twelve zones could be developed to cover the state.

This means that 20 ppm would be the maximum distortion that would be expected, however most of the LDP coverages would display less distortion. Stated differently, most of each zone coverage would have distortions between 0 to 20ppm (between 1: infinity and 1:50,000) distortions by design. Distortions of 200 ppm (1:5000) are approximately 1’ per mile. Distortions of 20 ppm (1:50,000) are approximately 0.1’ per mile (or 0.6’ per typical “township,” or 2.4’ per typical “county”).

LDP’s allow us to be more confident that we only have a maximum distortion of approximately 2.4’ that is attributable to grid to ground (g/g) projection across the distance mapped for a typical “county.”
The goal is to make GIS use more simple. The value of LDP’s will be realized if we work together to publish and use parameters for these “standard” projections.

ESRI, AutoCAD, Microstation and data collector manufacturers likely will integrate Iowa’s standard LDP zones into their products. This should allow surveyors and other GIS users to push a button to move from one projection to another without worrying about excessive distortion of their map caused by the issue of grid to ground.

Users of GIS who need precise locations for property boundaries may have needs to account for distortions beyond the designed 20 ppm LDP. Typically, as GIS and CAD displays are zoomed in, distortions become more noticeable. But by establishing datums that provide a 20 ppm maximum distortion attributable to g/g projection, those users will be able to develop a better sense of confidence in when these distortions can be ignored for their particular application.

Details concerning the organizational structure and finding appropriate resources to support implementation in Iowa will continue to emerge. The major stakeholders in this endeavor will likely be Professional Land Surveyors and Engineers, SLSI, ASCE, ISAC, ICEA, IDOT, NGS, IGIC, state agencies, counties, cities and private enterprise. Have I missed anyone?

2011 USDA NAIP Imagery and 1980s Historical Orthos
Gregg Hadish - NRCS (Gregg.Hadish@ia.usda.gov)
If you haven't already added it: the 2011 NAIP is available state-wide through the USDA Data Gateway:
http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/   Gregg will be working on getting these on to the Iowa Geographic Map Server soon. http://ortho.gis.iastate.edu/

Also state-wide 1980s CIR image services (ArcGIS and WMS) are available through ISU GIS Facility.
http://ags.gis.iastate.edu/ArcGISServer/rest/services/Ortho/ortho_1980/ImageServer

City of Johnston GIS “News-not-worthies”
David Croll [dcroll@ci.johnston.ia.us]
We have been doing extensive classification of our county’s parcel data for use in a Stormwater Utility Billing Scheme.   A summer intern was tasked to classify parcels based on Landuse and structures etc. This will enable us to join parcels to our billing system to appropriately bill if a stormwater utility goes into effect.

Polk County Emergency Management has asked the help of the Des Moines Area Regional GIS participants in implementing a universal Grid for Polk County.   Early suggestions from the GIS constituents is that we will probably use the U.S. National Grid.   Ideally within 6 months we will have a U.S. National Grid Atlas for all of Polk County in .pdf form at a couple of different scales. We plan to use ESRI’s Data Driven Pages functionality in 10.1 to drive semi-automated creation of the Atlas.

Work continues with the Johnston Police Department on mapping the photos taken inside schools for the Critical 360 Project using Pictometry Online. We now have 3 schools photographed and 1 school completely online within Pictometry Online.

With 2010 Census data available, we have been using those population numbers to derive populations within Census blocks for emergency planning and evacuation routes and target marketing for bond referendums.

That’s all from Johnston

Cedar County GIS
Joshua Sales - Cedar County GIS [gis@cedarcounty.org]
We finally launched our online viewer, which helped put GIS out there a little more than before. Most response have been positive so far: https://cedar.integritygis.com/

Moreover, we picked up Spatial Analyst and I have been able to utilize toolboxes for more advanced analysis. Much of this work has been put online via ArcGIS Online and the Iowa GIS Data Repository, including forest morphology and slope position layers. I have been anxiously awaiting the new DNR land cover to redo the forestry analysis.

Software and Toolboxes employed to enhance our data depot:
http://forest.jrc.ec.europa.eu/download/software/guidos
http://www.jennessent.com/arcgis/arcgis_extensions.htm
http://corridordesign.org/downloads
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/index.html
http://www.nrel.colostate.edu/ftp/theobald/
http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/monitor/npscape/gis_data.cfm

State Agency GIS Service Bureau
Evan Koester (Evan.Koester@dnr.iowa.gov) - (editor’s note, Evan was recently hired to work as the state agency GIS service bureau, with funding from a State Agency Pooled Technology grant through December of 2012)

The Iowa GIS Service Bureau is winding down the initial interviewing process and is starting to identify and address common GIS related needs in state government. We have met with several state agencies and a handful of other state government groups.

Many users, previously isolated, are already taking advantage of new interagency relationships, and overall, people have been very receptive towards efforts to establish an all inclusive clearinghouse of metadata and/or data. People have started using the GIS Service Bureau resources to find datasets, develop general or specific GIS skills, get assistance with data development, and in one case reduced a data processing timeline from three months to six hours.

Overall the project is growing in a positive direction and looks to be a valuable resource for state government in the future.

Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management
Jon Paoli (jonathan.paoli@iowa.gov)
2011 NSGIC Annual Conference
The 2011 NSGIC annual focused on many of the same themes as years past. Collaborative efforts and increased communication on the Next Generation 911, addressing, and For the Nation (FTN) initiatives are the leading advocacy items for the upcoming year.   The U.S. Census Bureau discussed increased efforts to partner on addressing with local governments and is looking for the states to get more involved to help coordinate.

The NextGen 911 and Geospatial Preparedness committees were very active during the meetings. The NextGen 911 group has put together a couple of informative handouts on NextGen 911 and coordination ideas for the states. Iowa may be taking part in a NSGIC pilot project for Stewardship and Maintenance of Critical Infrastructure & Facility GIS data. There are currently 8 states interested in utilizing Indiana’s maintenance application to accomplish this pilot.

Voter Geocoding Project
A unique project that HSEMD is currently working on is the Secretary of State’s voter geocoding project. There is an obvious need to geocode all 1.9 million voters ahead of the caucus. We are currently in discussions regarding the accuracy of the data and their overall expectations. I have reached out to the DNR and ISU to potentially become leads on this project if funding is available.
The Next Generation 911 project for Iowa has begun. There are 5 pilot counties yet to be determined, we are in the beginning stages of data collection. ICIT is assisting our efforts and send out a message on behalf of HSEMD. Data has been received from 20 plus counties.

DOT GIS moving towards asset management
Eric Abrams (Eric.Abrams@dot.iowa.gov)

DOT moving toward asset management philosophy to sustain infrastructure investment. This philosophy asks five core questions

What is the current state of our assets?
What is the required level of service?
Which assets are critical to sustained performance?
What are the best Operations & Maintenance and capital improvement plan strategies?
What is the best ling-term funding strategy?

New GIMS system will be operational soon and next spring will be the last time DOT road network will be segmented by multiple attribute properties. Road data will be dynamically segmented for each 30+ features.

DOT sign inventory is functioning.   See Brad C. for information.

DOT asset collection pilot is starting with a vendor. See Shawn B. for information

Getting ready to deploy Latitude Geographics Geocortex software.

External web server to deploy after Christmas.

Quick Terrain Modeler by applied imagery Training 24-27th, we have room for a state government observer to see what the software is about.

Deployment of GPS/AVL to over 300 snow plows. Monitor location and vehicle attributes.

DOT Strategic Plan moving forward. Phase 1 complete, looking at phase 2 options.

Working with Jon Paoli on direct access to DOT GIS infrastructure (Oracle Spatial, LRS, ArcGIS Servers and Geocortex)

The Schneider Corporation Grows Iowa GIS Staff

Jan Bowles (JBowles@schneidercorp.com)

The Schneider Corporation introduces two new members to their GIS Technical Team in as many months. “Schneider has taken great care to develop a top notch Technical Team, says Jeff Corns, VP GIS Operations, “these folks make sure life is good by removing challenges and providing first class service for our customers.”

The Schneider Corporation announces the addition of GIS Project Manager, Jeff Lewis, to our Ankeny office. Since 2002, Jeff has held positions as GIS Specialist, Communications Division Manager for Emergency Management, and Assistant IT and GIS Services Director…all for the Bay County Board of Commissioners in Panama City, Florida. He is a 2001 graduate of Northeast Missouri State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Geography. Jeff is a native Iowan and he and his family are “coming home” after living the past nine years in Florida.

We are also pleased to welcome Jonathon Mumm to the Schneider team. Jonathon joins us as a Web Developer in GIS and works at the Ankeny, Iowa office. In May of this year, Jonathon earned his BS degree in Management Information Systems from Upper Iowa University.

Please welcome these two newcomers to the Iowa GIS Community.

[igic] GPS Question

Karen Perdue — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:47:00 +0000

[igic] Quarterly IGIC news items needed

Giglierano, James [DNR] — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:52:27 +0000

[igic] Cerro Gordo Co hiring for PC Support

Lemke, Paula — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:56:34 +0000

Re: [igic] Arkansas Lessons

Micah E. Cutler — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:56:50 +0000

[igic] (no subject)

Combs, Jeff D. — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:03:13 +0000

[igic] Low Distortion Projections (LDP) and Grid-Ground Issues

Roger Patocka — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:34:47 +0000

[igic] Brenda Swaim/COA is out of the office.

Brenda Swaim — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:05:38 +0000

[igic] 2012 Nominations opening for MAGIC Consortium Awards in GIS Coordination, GIS Innovation and GIS Service...

Lemke, Paula — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:27:48 +0000

[igic] 2012 MAGIC Lifetime and Special Achievement Award - Nominations are now open!

Lemke, Paula — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:10:33 +0000

[igic] GIS position in Kansas City

Lemke, Paula — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:30:07 +0000

[igic] PNT Media Clips for Friday, September 9, 2011

Lemke, Paula — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:50:42 +0000

[igic] Schedule GIS Seminar @ ISU!

Haddad, Monica [C R P] — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:54:17 +0000

[igic] GIS temp job

Giglierano, James [DNR] — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:47:31 +0000

[igic] Topographic Modeling with Iowa Lidar

Cedar County GIS — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:56:58 +0000

[igic] Job Opportunity - GIS Analyst

Rotschafer, Drew — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:35:21 +0000

[igic] 2010 Census Data

Chad A. Goings — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:29:43 +0000

[igic] Reports in ArcMap

Rick Havel — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:05:00 +0000

[igic] Picture Marker Symbols

Megan Moeller — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:38:00 +0000

[igic] Call for Instructors for 2012 MAGIC Symposium Short Courses

Lemke, Paula — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:00:35 +0000

[igic] Using GIS to track the Decorah Eagles

Anne Packard — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:01:34 +0000

[igic] Interesting Article - History and GIS

Blaesing, Shawn [DOT] — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:14:34 +0000

Virtual USA: How geospatial tech is changing government -- Government Computer News

(author unknown) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:46:22 +0000

A geospatial framework emerges for emergency response coordination among federal, state and local governments.

[igic] idaes for geoprocessing scripts?

Haddad, Monica [C R P] — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:11:59 +0000

[igic] Fall 2011 - GIS Seminar @ ISU.

Haddad, Monica [C R P] — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:13:25 +0000

[igic] Brenda Swaim/COA is out of the office.

Brenda Swaim — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:01:41 +0000

[igic] Power lines line shapefile

Obrecht, Joshua D [ITACD] — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:36:08 +0000