November 2018 GISTC Meeting

Location Details

Geological Survey
1016 E. Calgary Ave., Bismarck, ND 58503

Meeting Agenda

• Cloud Status
• Feature Class Naming and Location
• Resolution in Support of DES Imagery
• Roundtable Report
• Building Footprints

Meeting Recap

• News and info
  • GIS website has moved to the state website platform - more cost effective
  • Using a new email system
  • The ND GIS Conference planning is underway
    • The Planning Committee is in place - contact Bob if interested in being part of that
    • Bismarck will be the location
    • October 2019
    • New name to reflect the changing landscape: Geospatial and Location Intelligence Summit
• Cloud Status
  • Connecting to Azure DB from the PC is very slow
  • Brian B has done a lot of testing of database and AGS feature service connection and use speeds
  • Bob has been testing feature services, comparing AGS to Datastore
  • Virtual apps and desktop testing has begun, looks promising but ArcMap and ArcPro project file management may be an issue
• Feature Class Naming and Location
  • We are starting to rename all of a handful of feature classes copied into the "root folder" of the Azure database to give us a sense if we want to move away from using feature datasets or not
• Resolution in Support of DES Imagery
  • The purpose of this document is to provide proof of support by the GISTC for the continuation of the DES Google imagery program
  • The GISTC approved the resolution
• Roundtable Report
  • Beginning in 2016, in lieu of having a Full GISTC meeting the GISTC decided to provide a report with the content of that report essentially the same as what would be presented during the meeting
  • The committee requested that instead of a separate report, beginning this year to re-use the GIS Program Report
• Building Footprints
  • These are imagery-derived footprints
  • Because the data is in GeoJSON format, it renders quicker in QGIS though once displayed in ArcPro the display speed is OK
  • The data is found at https://github.com/Microsoft/USBuildingFootprints

Date of Notice: 

December 19, 2017

Notice Provided By: 

B Nutsch, 701-328-3212