February 2022 GISTC Meeting

Location

Department of Environmental Quality

4201 Normandy Street, Bismarck, ND 58503

This will also be a virtual meeting.  Please contact us for more information.

Meeting Agenda

• Informational Items
• Strategic Plan - Integration of Agency Vision
• CDO Visit
• Meeting Efficiencies
• Content for Hub Data Portal
• Roundtable/Open Forum

Meeting Recap

• Informational Items
  • ND Association of Counties is beginning a GIS Program to provide assistance to counties
• Strategic Plan - Integration of Agency Vision
  • The Strategic Plan will be using a run-grow-transform approach
  • Agencies need to provide input using a provided template
• CDO Visit
  • Ravi Krishnan introduced himself to the Committee members and vice-versa.
  • The GISTC will be meeting with him in the future
• Meeting Efficiencies
  • Future meeting agendas will include an opportunity to comment and ask questions pertaining to the minutes of the previous meeting and the informational document for the current meeting.
• Content for Hub Data Portal
  • Data stewards are already publishing their content to the Portal
  • Data stewards should also be publishing their apps and maps to the Portal
  • If they need assistance Bob can publish on their behalf and show the process so that in the future the agency can do the work themselves
• Roundtable/Open Forum
  • The Department of Health is beginning a cemetery mapping project, which will include butterfly habitat as a component of that work
  • Only registered cemeteries are being mapped
  • Cemeteries can be listed as such even with one internment
  • Block C of the lidar elevation has been delivered
  • Department of Interior working to remove perceived derogatory terms from federal usage, there are 6 six such names in ND.  More information is HERE.

Last updated:  February 14, 2022