November 2023 SGC Meeting

Location

State Historical Society

612 East Boulevard Ave.

Bismarck, ND 58505

Meeting Agenda

• Minutes and Information
• Annual Report
• Geospatial Roadmap
• Geospatial Special Interest Groups
• Roundtable/Open Forum

Meeting Recap

• Minutes and Information
  • Additional information added to the Hub Data Portal for authoritative data and added trusted data source
  • Framework dataset definition has been posted to the GIS website
• Annual Report
  • A draft of the Geospatial Program Report was reviewed
  • This will be posted publicly next week
• Geospatial Roadmap
  • Geospatial is at a bit of a transition point, for example, we’ll be seeing retirement of key people at some point in the next few years, we have other agencies expressing interest in geospatial, technology has dramatically changed, we don’t have much more resources than we did 15+ years ago, etc.
  • 20+ years ago a vendor was hired to help set the strategy.  History will be somewhat repeated by sending out an RFI for a cost estimate of what we should include in the budget for 25-27 to help us during that timeframe to identify the geospatial roadmap.
• Geospatial Special Interest Groups
  • Rod and another person is planning to present at the PLS Annual Meeting
  • Colin is planning to present at the 911 Quarterly Meeting
  • Steve is planning to be at the ND Transportation Conference
• Roundtable/Open Forum
  • Bob said the MAGIC Symposium email blasts are beginning - April 2024
  • Rod mentioned the location of county boundaries with respect to river channels at a time in history vs. the location of those river channels now, in particular, those rivers such as the Bois de Sioux that have been channeled. There is potential for someone to have a MN address but might actually be in ND, or vice-versa
  • Brock brought up John Wesley Powell, who foreseeing the issues brought about by moving river channels, suggested state boundaries should be defined by watersheds.

Last updated:  December 21, 2023