Presentations
Presenter Title Description
David Bright Cascade Park: Ready for Construction One of the major Blueprint 2000 projects is the development of the Capital Cascade Trail. This project will be developed in four segments, extending 4.25 miles along the St. Augustine Branch and Central Drainage Ditch, from Mahan Drive on the north to the Munson Slough on the south. Segment 2 is Cascade Park, a 24-acre site immediately southeast of the Capitol Center in Downtown Tallahassee. Design and permitting is complete, and construction bids are to be received and opened on January 19, 2010.

Cascade Park will bring a significant green space to Downtown, and is designed to help control the flooding which occurs on South Monroe Street. The park will include over two miles of trails, a stage and amphitheater, signature bridges, Cascade Fountain, water-play fountain, time-line fence, and many other amenities highlighting and commemorating significant historical events and cultural features of our community.
David Forsyth Jazzing up your maps! This presentation will showcase cartographic techniques you can use to spice up your map products. The focus will be on both hard copy printouts and electronic maps. Topics will include labeling, color schemes, highlighting specific subjects, and symbolizing complex maps. This will be an entry level presentation based on ArcGIS mapping.
David Forsyth “What…exactly…is LiDAR?” This will be a brief but broad overview of LiDAR. The main focus will be on the lineage as to how LiDAR makes its way onto a map. Starting from the nuts and bolts of what LiDAR is, how it is processes, and the resulting GIS friendly data layers. Consider this an entry level presentation, as there will be no math involved!
Debbie Deng

Jim Van Riper 		Utility Center - Integration of Mobile Mapping and Mobile Work Management Utility Center is an application developed by The City of Tallahassee in conjunction with the Tallahassee/Leon County GIS provides basic mapping tools to browse and search both utility and land base data via an ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 implementation. This application also has advanced functionality to manage data security to restrict access to sensitive utility data. Also included is functionality to with a mobile work order management solution. Users can create work orders from the field on a mobile device with wireless connectivity. The application provides for the visualation of work orders, crew/truck routes and stop data graphically using advanced routing and tracking of historical route information. This presentation will demonstrate tools and functionality of the application and discuss coding methods and data requirements required to complete this project.
Karen Kebart Hillshade Models Versus Flow Direction Grids A comparison of the use of hillshade models versus flow direction grids for the interpretation of landform in conjunction with LiDAR derived Digital Elevation Models.
Richard Butgereit Latest Web apps and Data Distribution tools of State EOC The Florida Division of Emergency Management has created a new situational awareness mapping application called the Geospatial Assessment Tool for Operations and Response. Built on the Adobe Flex Viewer and powered by ArcGIS Server, this website provides an important and useful gateway to risk assessment and response for the Florida Division of Emergency Management and the State Emergency Response Team. Modeled after the Virginia Department of Emergency Management’s VIPER, this tool mixes real-time data like weather watches and warnings, storm reports, and river stage conditions with more static data like emergency services facility locations, jurisdictional boundaries, and identified risk zones. In addition to map services constructed for the web application being served and available as REST services, KML network links are also being provided, contributing on behalf of the State of Florida’s to the Department of Homeland Security’s Virtual USA data sharing initiative. This presentation will further explore the website, provide details on Virtual USA, and give tips and tricks using ArcGIS Sever to publish KML network links.
Jared Casseaux Unified Basemap Repository The Unified Basemap Repository (UBR) was made active July 1, 2009. By the end of December 2009 over 100 state and local government staff have subscribed to and gained access to this data. 63 geographic datasets are available through this repository, these datasets include but are not limited to city, water, transportation, boundary and land use information.
Chris Williams Contamination Locator Map Division of Waste Management (DWM) launched a GIS web tool called Contamination Locator Map or CLM “Clem”. CLM is an interacting web base GIS tool to locate suspected or perceived to be contaminated sites or facilities within an address, a city or a zip code. CLM also allows the user to search by sites or facilities name, identification number, and cleanup (active or pending). All of these sites or facilities may or may not show any contaminating, but some could be undergoing investigating or review by the department.
Scott Weisman URISA Leadership Academy (ULA) The URISA Leadership Academy (ULA) is the only leadership training program of its kind, that is tailored to industry leaders and practitioners faced with the unique challenges of GIS leadership and management and who want to make an impact leveraging the power of GIS. This session will provide an overview of the vast material covered in the three or five day training opportunity held twice a year provided through URISA.
Bill Alfred, GISP Introduction to OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways. This presentation is a brief introduction to OpenStreetMap.