June 2025 SGC Meeting

Location

Department of Agriculture

600 East Boulevard Ave.

Bismarck, ND 58505

Meeting Agenda

• Minutes and Information
• Esri Licensing
• Geospatial Maturity Assessment
• Low Distortion Projection
• Statewide Data Strategy
• Roundtable/Open Forum

Meeting Recap

• Minutes and Information
  • Planning to invite the State CIO and CDO to a future SGC meeting
  • NAIP 2025 will be collected, likely at 30cm instead of the recent 60cm
• Esri Licensing
  • Agencies met with Esri May 14, appears to have been a useful meeting
  • DOT is now considering the possibility of an Esri EA
  • Frank B of Esri asked agencies to send to him examples of their work that he can share with Esri and his other customers
• Geospatial Maturity Assessment
  • This will be updated with 2025 information:  https://nsgic.org/initiatives/geospatial-maturity-assessment/
  • Eleven theme documents were sent out by NSGIC; Bob farmed those out to the data stewards for their response
• Low Distortion Projection
  • Patience and care will be required as we transition to the 2022 datum and new projections
  • Good practice would include clear metadata and on maps describing the datum & projection used
  • The new datum will cause up to 3 feet of elevation change
• Statewide Data Strategy
  • Not all requested funding has been received for 25-27
• Roundtable/Open Forum
  • Department of Trust Lands will be meeting with Planet
  • Rod of DWR said that 25 cities have now been collected for QL1; 24 more will be collected

Last updated:  July 15, 2025