September 2021 GISTC Meeting

Location

Game and Fish Department

100 N. Bismarck Expressway, Bismarck, ND 58501

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

Meeting Agenda

• Informational Items
• Geospatial Summit
• Data Update Review
• Strategic Plan/Executive Order
• Roundtable Discussion

Meeting Recap

• Informational Items
  • Parcel Program
    • AppGeo is beginning the outreach to counties and their vendors for suggested data improvement
    • Reminder that the database is updated as the data comes in; the public-facing web map and services are updated weekly
• Geospatial Summit
  • Possibility of moving to virtual as has done by other states
  • Registration is open for abstracts, participants, and sponsors
  • Planning a State GIS Program 
• Data Update Review
  • This is at least an annual exercise to check currency of datasets
  • A number of datasets need to be follow up on such as SSURGO and some health-related datasets
• Strategic Plan/Executive Order
  • Some minor changes have been made to the draft Executive Order
  • Official agency name is needed for the draft
  • Agencies are to take this draft to their agency leadership for review and approval
  • NSGIC recently compiled a list of states who have GIS defined in their state statute
• Roundtable Discussion
  • Oil and Gas - Of interest:  https://river-runner.samlearner.com/
  • DOT - Bridge Division - bridge dashboard
  • DES - Seven counties remain to be integrated into the statewide basemap data
  • DEQ - Use of census tract information with environmental justice
  • PNR - Moving their offices to the State Library Building
  • DWR - Will soon have statewide QL2 lidar data; planning to purchase the statewide Hexagon imagery
  • GS - should be done with county geologic mapping in a few years; statewide landslide data should be done soon

Last updated: September 21, 2021