September 2018 GISTC Meeting

Location Details

Game and Fish Department
100 N. Bismarck Expressway, Bismarck, ND 58501-5095

Meeting Agenda

• GIS Program Report
• Imagery
• Integrated Mapping
• Cloud Status
• Database Feature Classes

Meeting Recap

• GIS Program Report
  • Draft reviewed; minor edit suggestions made
  • Pending edits, the report is approved for publication
• Imagery
  • It is likely the 2019 NAIP will be a subscription product, meaning we will no longer be able to access and distribute as we have been doing
  • The future state of NAIP is still being discussed at the federal level
  • The GISTC plans to continue supporting the Department of Emergency Services Google imagery program
• Integrated Mapping
  • A draft of the integrated ArcGIS Online map was shown
  • There are a number of other agencies interested in this tool which provides the ability to drive the map content based on attribute selections on the web page
• Cloud Status
  • The "cloud first" vision of the Governor is driving the move of GIS to the cloud
  • Esri Professional Services was on site for two days to assist in deploying ArcGIS Enterprise to Azure
  • The proof of concept was a success in terms of both Esri and ITD learning and also getting the software installed and working
  • State security requirements create a number of challenges
  • Azure file storage may have some limitations
  • A desktop software environment was not set up
  • There will be a tremendous amount of testing and training need to deploy ArcGIS to Azure; the server are the relatively minor component of the overall work
• Database Feature Classes
  • Naming conventions will be utilized to organize feature classes if we move from organizing by feature datasets
  • Esri doesn't provide any organizational capabilities beyond a feature dataset; using feature datasets creates data maintenance issues such as locked feature classes
  • Planning to use 3- or 4-character prefixes to help sort the information

Date of Notice: 

December 19, 2017

Notice Provided By: 

B Nutsch, 701-328-3212