February 2020 GISTC Meeting

Location

Department of Health

2635 East Main Avenue, Bismarck, ND 58501

Meeting Agenda

• Informational Items
• USGS Liaison
• MAGIC Awards
• Agency Work Highlights
• Database
• Open Forum

Meeting Recap

• Informational Items
  • MAGIC 2020 Conference is coming up in April
  • The updated GIS Strategic Plan has been published
  • Updating the Executive Order establishing the GISTC is being planned
• USGS Liaison
  • Benjamin York is North Dakota's newest Liaison
  • Inner agency coordination via the Silver Jackets
  • QL2 lidar is being planned for the entire state
• MAGIC Awards
  • The GISTC selected one nominated person from each of the three categories:  Service, Coordination, Innovation
• Agency Work Highlights
  • The purpose of this is to make agency GIS work more visible AND to show the collaboration between agencies to achieve individual agency business needs.  This work can eventually be utilized to create ROI examples. A few examples were provided, for example, the Game and Fish web applications such as the PLOTS Guide and the Department of Health 
• Database
  • Two agencies have been given access, more to come
  • Documentation of the process is being developed for use by the agencies to help them convert to using the Hub's SQL Server databases
• Open Forum
  • Reviewed one of the existing coronvirus apps, a nice example of the Esri Operations Dashboard

Last updated: February 14, 2020