April 2026 SGC Meeting

Location

Parks and Recreation
Liberty Memorial Building
604 E Boulevard Ave.
Bismarck, ND 58505

Meeting Agenda

• Minutes and Information
• Basemap_General
• ADA Digital Accessibility
• Imagery Status
• Roundtable/Open Forum

Meeting Recap

• Minutes and Information
  • Using CommonLook for PDF remediation assistance
• Basemap_General
  • Planning to deprecate if possible - Esri Living Atlas can replace
  • Will plan on advance notice
• ADA Digital Accessibility
  • The DOT is tagging PDFs generated by ArcPro - adding what the map is about, captioning images
• Imagery Status
  • Rod had not heard from anyone having interest in funding this year
  • Bob said the backup plan is to build upon the work that Rod has begun, using his executive summary
  • Then develop our needs and nice to haves
  • Likely will need a project champion should we look towards the state with its partners funding a collect
• Roundtable/Open Forum
  • Bob reminded the Committee the 2025 NAIP imagery is in the 'Basemap_Imagery' service.  If one wishes to use a dynamic service then use the DWR WMS.
  • The DOT has hired a person for Data Governance work within the Planning Division

Last updated:  May 20, 2026