Place: State Office Bldg., Room 1112 State Capitol Complex Salt Lake City, UT
And 4 remote sites: Cedar City -- UDOT Facility Richfield -- Office Center Price -- DNR Vernal -- State & County Building
Agenda:
1.State Broadband Mapping grant application – John Harvey, Utah Public Service Commission a.Utah Public Service Commission i.Submitting the Broadband Mapping, Analysis and Planning Project Grant Application on Aug. 13, 2009 ii.Exerts from the Grant iii.Full copy of the Grant b.Result of the ARRA Bill, passed by Congress several months ago i.A directive to develop a nationwide dataset that will show where Broadband connectivity is available throughout the US ii.Delivered through National Telecommunications and Information Administration, each state would submit a Statement of Work describing how it would gather, consolidate and improve on the broadband coverage found in its state. iii.Public Service Commission was determined to be the eligible entity, or the project management agency. iv.AGRC will be the agency to collect and analyze data about the broadband service throughout the state and incorporate it into a dataset showing where there are adequate broadband services and where the service is lacking or underserved. v.DTS will then look at areas that underserved or where full service broadband compatibility is not available and determine how to increase the service through this grant. vi.After it is determined an entity has underserved or no broadband service, the entity can apply for grants from PSC that will sublimate from the moneys of the overall grant. vii.The grant looks at not only residential areas but also public safety organizations, schools, libraries, community colleges, universities, etc. viii.A contractor or contractors will be hired to go out and work with providers of broadband throughout the state and report back to the AGRC with the information about the service ix.Much of the data will be of a sensitive manner. The AGRC will be the only department to see any of the raw data. The confidentiality will be kept by striping of any sensitive information from the data before it is made public x.There shouldn’t be a problem with getting contact information for AGRC - DHL and Cable providers have been contacted and have already established a contact person to work with the AGRC xi.There is ~$3 million in the grant and $739,000 in kind, bringing the total to ~$3,739,000. xii.Approximately $1 million will be coming to the AGRC for the work done to consolidate and integrate the data into a statewide dataset. c.Project is to last 5 years. d.Once the initial dataset is complete, data will be updated every 6 months e.Development of a dataset of address point specific information is included under this effort.
2.DEQ ArcGIS Server application – Harold Sandbeck, DEQ a.Harold Sandbeck – show a DEQ/DERR interactive map service b.History i.Started around 1998-1999 with ArcIMS ii.Not User Friendly c.Current map service developed by AGRC in ArcServe, as a MapService i.User Friendly d.Developed a complete department look, works within DEQ internally e.Within 2 weeks, the application will be open to the public
3.Update on Imagery Acquisition – Rick Kelson a.Update on the current imagery acquisition b.NAIP- 1 meter – Surdex is the vendor i.Statewide acquisition is almost complete ii.Final delivery, in 32-band, (RGB), Quarter Quads and Compressed county mosaics: delivery to start in Sept. iii.The new statewide imagery be available on the image server hopefully by the end of the year, can get copies if a hard drive is sent to Rick Kelson of the AGRC c.High resolution – should still be completed by September 30 i.Graphic shows where the 1 ft. for the Wasatch Front, ii.Collected with Ultracamx and DMC cameras, - Frame based - Creates a better auto-correlated DEM for controls - Large scale work - Higher resolution potential iii.Cache will be collected in the fall, in middle of Sept. iv.Moab collected at 12.5 cm v.Canyonlands National park. 25 cm. product (~1 ft. see graphic) - QC/QA has been done on the Moab imagery and sent to USGS - Very good imagery - Accuracy will be tested against our survey grade control points. - Flown by MJ Harden - Flown in the spring, April 13 – May 13, with the leave mostly - Will not be available in the image server until the end of the year.
4. Postponed: National Inventory for Cadastral Data – Sean Fernandez
5. New West Jordan Map Services -- Clint Hutchings, West Jordan GIS Department a.Specific to different types of map service – Flex View b.Comes with a background, but allows the use of the AGRC imagery c.Uses Microsoft Silverlight within the application d.Check out West Jordan Map Service site. e.Very fast to draw
6. Proposed Geospatial Governance Structure a.Revisit to the Proposed geospatial Governance for geospatial environment b.Has not received comments on the proposed geospatial governance for our geospatial environment c.This fall we, as GIS professionals will start implementing the change d.Get the support of the CIO’s office e.Suggesting that the State Geospatial Advisory Committee (SGAC) i.Those people who are “champions” of GIS - Adopt and implement GIS standards f.GPIC Geospatial Policy Implementation Committee i.14 members of all UGIC members ( ii. Associate Members (Representatives from) - Federal Agencies - Legislative Research - GOPO - Private sector iii.Coordination iv.Setting privities v.Implementations of UGI strategic plan g.UGIC vii.Would establish working groups for initiatives like developing data standards h.Please send comments by the October 1, 2009 i. Will be formulating new rules j.Authorization would be through revising the Administrive Rule for GISAC k. Restructuring and replacing GISAC i.Establish more strength in the organization ii.Establish a different prospective to our activities l.What to accomplish with this reorganization i.Getting the work groups going ii.Develop planning strategies iii.Recommendations on how and who the memberships will be determined from the organization they will represent them in iv.Validate the results of work groups set up by UGIC v.Authoritative source to establish the use of standards across the state. 7. Other a.Looking to start on address standards for the complete state
G5 Meeting 8-20-2009 Iron County Courthouse Parowan, UT
Jason Channin(ESRI) – mobile GIS solutions.
ArcPad • Target platforms - Windows mobile 5 and 6, Windows XP and Vista • Designed to support gps collection. Can configure and customize right in Arcpad. • Arcpad studio is for helping to customize arcpad (VB script, JavaScript). • GPScorrect from Trimble will do differential correction of shape files.
ArcGIS Mobile – relatively new. • Client to ArcGIS server 9.3,. uses Java and .NET. • Does local caching, data and edits can be stored locally if offline. • Editing data. If not on-line can synchronize at certain times to push data and edits to the server. • ArcGIS Server serves out the map that is used in the application. Can also use SDK and use Visual Studio to build your own apps. • Currently doesn’t have the ability to do differential corrections. • Target devices – Windows Mobile 5, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 6 Professional., Smartphone, Pocket PC, Tablet PC
ArcGIS engine Tablet PC
ArcLoGIStics Navigator – also new, in-vehical navigation Pocket PC, Tablet PC
• Picked a vendor that wasn’t too expensive (CartoPac), could support both hardware (Trimble) and software. 5 mobile units • Kept learning curve to a bare minimum for public works field crews. • Concentrated on signs and culverts. • Had a relationship table related to the features so a history could be kept for each feature. • Confined data entry to pick-lists as much as possible. • Used ArcGIS Diagrammer (on arcscripts.esri.com page) to set up the empty geodatabase and schema prior to data collection.
Bill Nelson – Iron County Serve 3 groups in the county. It/GIS staff Building inspectors Noxious weed crew
David Evans – St. George City • Had to back up and collect control before collecting utilities. • Now using ArcGIS Server enterprise version. Using ruggedized notebooks in the field running arcPad S/W. Using Arc Editor. • Use ArcCatalog for data check in and check out. Crews check in each Friday by 3:00pm, so updates to the database are weekly. • Have 11 machines that are out in the field.
Matt Lee – Dixie NF Motorized Travel Plan (MTP) generated the need for mobile devices. • Prescription • Implementation • Monitoring They are on the implementation step now. Prescription Team District specialis that visit each route. The “prescription” is how to close the road or trail. Implementation Team Carry out the “prescription” in the field. Monitoring Team Team that monitors the road closures. • Will start in 2010. • Currently 2496 miles of closed roads. • Needed to be sure that the teams knew exactly where they were. Decided to go with ArcPad as a solution. Also use ArcPad Studio. • The application makes sure that the teams are in the correct place, and that the implementation team knows what the prescription is. This also records the completion of the implementation,.
Directions for G5: ArcGIS Server examples web applications More of what folks are doing. Personal experiences with technology Personal experiences with technology Personal experiences with technology Keep discussions central to the meetings Learn from each other. Maybe some how-to. ArcGIS server, SDE
David Evans nominated and elected to serve as president.
ArcGIS Desktop installs with a set of TrueType fonts for hghway shields (ESRI Shields), including some state specific shields like Utah's classic beehive. Unfortunately, the ESRI TT behive has a black surround/background that doesn't look great on map products.
Lacking a TT font editing program, Zach Beck of AGRC has put together a beehive-like symbol, with a transparent background, by stacking some more common symbol characters. This symbol is available in a .style file that can be loaded into the ArcMap Symbol Selector window (More Symbols --> Add...)
The Utah Department of Technology Services, as part of a mandate to meet best practices for implementing secure DNS, is splitting the state DNS servers into internal and external environments. The domain “utah.gov” will be the State’s official public-facing domain. Any records hosted on the State’s internal DNS servers (state.ut.us) will not be accessible from the Internet unless through use of the State’s VPN service. This change is currently scheduled for Wednesday, September 16th @ 18:00 hrs.
This change will affect your ability to access the following AGRC resources: 9.2 SGID, Image Server, and direct FTP data download.
