September 2025 SGC Meeting

Location

Game and Fish Department

100 N. Bismarck Expressway

Bismarck, ND 58501

Meeting Agenda

• Minutes and Information
• Esri
• Geospatial Program Annual Report
• MAGIC Clearinghouse Summit Summary
• Roundtable/Open Forum

Meeting Recap

• Minutes and Information
  • New Hub Explorer – old version is now gone
  • Old Red River and Devils Lake elevation data is being deprecated because it is available at the DWR
  • Initial planning for the Geospatial Summit - looking for Planning Committee members
  • Don't forget! 2026 MAGIC Symposium in Omaha
• Esri
  • Mike M and Phillip J of Esri discussed licensing
  • Price ramp is available to assist with migration to the increased Esri software costs
• Geospatial Program Annual Report
  • Final draft is available for review and final comment
• MAGIC Clearinghouse Summit Summary
  • Held in Fargo at the end of July
  • Set up Living Atlas groups to make it easier to find commonly used Living Atlas content
  • Arkansas and some other states looking to use AWS Open Data Storage, Microsoft appears to offer something similar
  • South Dakota QGIS not allowed due to coding outside of US and needing an entity for working through potential liability issues
  • Kansas is migrating all servers and content to Azure
  • Wyoming showed a High Wind Closures app that uses wind velocity with light/heavy vehicle modeling
  • USGS continues doing some amazing things with technologies, e.g., Kubernetes, AWS, PostreSQL, etc.
• Roundtable/Open Forum
  • Phillip suggested a future SGC topic:  the need for metadata for AI and how to submit fixes for Community maps
  • Rod indicated DWR is moving forward in partnership with NRCS for upgrading HUC8 for 3DHP

Last updated:  October 16, 2025