November 2025 SGC Meeting

Location

DMR - Geological Survey

1016 E. Calgary Ave.

Bismarck, ND 58503

Meeting Agenda

• Minutes and Information
• Geospatial Program Report
• Web Accessibility
• AI Video
• Roundtable/Open Forum

Meeting Recap

• Minutes and Information
  • Geospatial Program Report is done and will be posted publicly after this meeting
  • Geospatial Summit planning has begun.  Kaitlyn Bakken of the ND Association of Counties will be first chair; Bob is second chair.  Jerame has joined the Planning Committee, thank you!
• Geospatial Program Report
  • Final review and comment
• Web Accessibility
  • 2 things to consider – our websites and our web-based mapping and applications, we’ll focus on the latter, concentrating on maps.
  • Quick summary of the issue: https://nsgic.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Accessibility-One-Pager-V3.pdf - state governments conform by April 2026
  • NSGIC Webinars:
    • https://nsgic.org/knowledge-base/making-gis-data-accessible-and-ada-compliant-october-8-2025
    • https://nsgic.org/knowledge-base/state-strategies-for-gis-accessibility-navigating-the-path-forward-july-10-2025
• AI Video
  • Video from the recent IMSG virtual conference – provides a nice overview of AI at Esri.
  • Of interest:  Data Explorer was shown (not yet available) – this is an Instant App where one can query the data, e.g., “how many miles of pipeline…”
• Roundtable/Open Forum
  • Recent work with the change detection vendor mentioned at last month’s meeting showed they are not quite there yet

Last updated:  December 8, 2025