January 2024 SGC Meeting

Location

Information Technology

4201 Normandy Street

Bismarck, ND 58503

Meeting Agenda

• Minutes and Information
• Tribal Discussion
• Geospatial Interest Group
• Geospatial Future State
• Strategic Plans and Goals
• Roundtable/Open Forum

Meeting Recap

• Minutes and Information
  • Geospatial Roadmap RFI results come in next week
  • Mark S. has left the PSC to return to BSC
  • Kim Weis is the new North Dakota Chief Data Officer
• Tribal Discussion
  • This was meant to be an informal discussion to get SGC members connected with key people with knowledge of tribal-related information and data. A primary focus was authoritative data sources and key contacts for things like roads, parcels, etc.  and a clarification of reservation boundaries/tribal lands.
  • Bookmarks used during the meeting:
    • https://www.indianaffairs.nd.gov/tribal-nations
    • https://www.bia.gov/bia/ots/dris/bogs 
  • Specific data related questions such as boundaries, should be sent to the BIA Regional Geospatial Coordinator
  • Recommended to avoid the use of “tribal” and instead use just “trust lands”
  • Not all off-reservation lands are trust lands, might be allotment lands
  • The use of the term, “Indian Community” as shown on the ND Indian Affairs website is used since the tracts are not contiguous, but “service area” is a better term
     
• Geospatial Interest Group - tabled
• Geospatial Future State - tabled
• Strategic Plans and Goals - tabled
• Roundtable/Open Forum
  • Parks and Recreation has released a new reservation system today, and they now have a trails app that shows at this time only Parks and Recreation trails.  The app uses the 'OuterSpatial' app

Last updated:  February 21, 2024