October 2023 SGC Meeting

Location

Department of Water Resources

Bank of ND Building

1200 Memorial Highway

Bismarck, ND 58506

Meeting Agenda

• Minutes and Information
• MAGIC Clearinghouse Summit Highlights
• Tribal Connections
• Storage Discussion
• Geospatial Special Interest Groups
• Roundtable/Open Forum

Meeting Recap

• Minutes and Information
  • Geospatial Summit scheduled for September 25-26, 2024 in Bismarck at the Event Center
• MAGIC Clearinghouse Summit Highlights
  • A number of states are using the Esri EA for licensing, SD recently went with a 5-year EA 
  • More cloud-centric.  Range in storage rates at the states resulting in moving to the cloud saving money and in other cases no savings
  • USGS is making heavy use of AWS along with interesting technologies such as Virtual Rasters and Spatio-Temporal Catalog
  • AZ has a lot of things going on, heave use of ArcGIS Online and in particular, collaboration with a focus on metadata
  • Heard about Overture Maps Foundation and Ecopia
  • MAGIC Symposium will be in Omaha, April 2024
• Tribal Connections
  • Planning to carve up some time at a future, hopefully December, SGC to engage with some key contacts
  • Conversations will include authoritative data sources for roads, parcels, reservation boundaries, tribal lands
  • Discussion on Sisseton being tribal lands or a reservation, and discussion on the Trenton Indian Service Area
• Storage Discussion
  • The Department of Water Resources is looking at increased storage rates as part of their migration to hosting of storage and servers to Information Technology.  Discussions are on-going between DWR and NDIT
  • We may be able to leverage this work as part of our geospatial future state
• Geospatial Special Interest Groups
  • Tabled
• Roundtable/Open Forum
  • Game and Fish has put the brakes on possible change management detection
  • Water Resources reported that 6" statewide imagery will likely show up in February or March, 2024 and the NAIP county mosaics as early as November

Last updated:  November 21, 2023