August 2022 SGC Meeting

Location

Department of Agriculture

600 East Boulevard Ave.

Bismarck, ND 58505

Meeting Agenda

• Minutes and Information
• Geospatial Summit
• USGS Liaison Report
• Geospatial Brown Bag Lunch
• GIS Asks
• Esri UC 
• Roundtable/Forum

Meeting Recap

• Minutes and Information
  • Minutes approved as read
  • Question on ArcGIS for Teams - supplements existing license, does not avoid the need for a license
• Geospatial Summit
  • Esri Hands-on Learning Lab will be available
  • We have two keynotes, Adam Carnow and Bill Johnson
  • Early bird registration ends August 29
  • Discussed social ideas from past Geospatial Summits
• USGS Liaison Report
  • Elaine shared her work on the new 100k on-demand map cartography
  • Using Esri's generalization models
  • Landcover - woodland, shrubland, cropland - these are new national coverages
  • 24k maps not impacted nor is data changed
• Geospatial Brown Bag Lunch
  • Previously discussed in 2014 but tabled
  • These would be scheduled, e.g., quarterly, lunch-n-learn type of events sharing with all state agencies how GIS is used within the SGC agencies
  • No interest to provide these due to lack of time
• GIS Asks
  • Explore the use of Kanban boards and listing of work to be done via Azure DevOps
  • Would be a way to prioritize and document Hub-related work that is needed by state agencies
  • Testing is underway for Hub-only work; appears to be a transparent way to communicate work load
• Esri UC 
  • No attendance other than a few sessions
• Roundtable/Forum
  • Oil and Gas has a new viewer that replaces the previous version that went away several months ago when it's server died

Last updated:  August 22, 2022