| Name | Title of Paper | Description |
| Bill Timmins | Public Safety Geocollaboration | Easy to use technology solutions for mobile data access and input by field personnel, operational managers, and support personnel provides for a better understanding of the roles and responsibilities of all involved. Geocollaboration in standard, secure and manageable formats also leverages an agencies investment in geospatial data while providing for planning and response during events can save lives, protect infrastructure and property. |
| C. Henry Depew | Accuracy Considerations | Among other items, accuracy in GIS work is relative to the efficiency of the data collection, the scale of the original work used, and the use of the file created. The resulting errors could be minor or major, but there are some considerations and checks that will help you determine the amount of error and the usability of the file in question. |
| C. Henry Depew | Presenting Your Work | Your presentation of your work is important. There are some basic considerations in terms of presenting your material in an informative, interesting, and useful manner. No matter how important the material, an un-focused, over-detailed, or uninspired presentation can be detrimental to the audience’s understanding and comprehension |
| Tripp Corbin | Moving Beyond the Technicial - Skills needed to be a GIS Professional and Manager | Most of us start our GIS careers editing data, doing analysis, managing databases, and making maps. We become really good at these things. So good that we get promoted to management where we find ourselves dealing less with GIS and more with people, projects, budgets, human resources, and many other challenges our technical training has not prepared us for. This session will focus on some of the skills you will need as a GIS professional or manager. |
| Frank Conking | Developing a Sustainable Parcel Layer | The Parcel Layer is a living record of information directly related to land ownership and tax records. The design and implementation of this layer must be sufficiently flexible to allow for improvements in the spatial accuracy of its features and the tracking of information appurtenant to the mapped features. This session will discuss two differing approaches to creating a parcel layer that allows continuous maintenance and improvements and will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each. |
| Tripp Corbin | Dept. of Labor Geospatial Technology Competency Model: What, When Why, How | The newly released Department of Labor Geospatial Technology Competency Model will have a great impact on the development of Geospatial education programs throughout the United States as well have ripples throughout the Geospatial industry and professions. The GISCI is already looking at this Competency Model as a possible guide for a GISP certification exam. Come find out what this model is, how it was created, and what impacts it might have on the GIS Profession. |
| Ned Cake, GISP | TLCGIS Self Deploy WebMap (JavaScript API) | TLCGIS developed a simple app that allows non-GIS web developers within local government to deploy and maintain their own public facing web maps with little or no help from GIS staff. The app will read and display X/Y locations from a .csv file stored within the app’s root folder. The developer has control over the locations and attributes in the csv. The app features three base maps and clickable map icons that launch an info box which supports image links, web links, and other attributes. |
| Greg Mauldin | Processing Lidar Point Cloud Data for Mapping Surface Drainage in Karst Landscapes | One of the primary challenges of using LiDAR-generated DEMs for mapping drainage units in karst landscapes is the elimination of artificial "sinks" resulting from systematic error in the data.
This presentation desribes an approach that uses a Gaussian filter to smooth the data prior to DEM creation, which allows the artifact "sinks" to be removed while preserving topographic sinks. |
| Mark Welsh | Creating a Customized Versioned Editing Environment | Versioning offers numerous advantages for structuring the GIS editing process, but can also bring added complexities. This presentation outlines how the Florida Department of Transportation’s Statistics Office (TRANSTAT) used ArcObjects to leverage the benefits of versioned editing while at the same time creating a multiple-editor environment that is easy to maintain, easy to use, and generates significant cost-savings and opportunities for other downstream business functions. |
| Mark Nelson | Water Conservation - Determining the Potential, Tracking and Reporting | Understanding the costs/benefits of water conservation is becoming increasingly important. This study evaluates conservation measures, water savings, and cost associated with a conservation program and takes a unique approach of integrating account-level water consumption records with the property appraiser’s GIS data and parcel-based population projections. These relationships help utilities better understand water consumption patterns and target water conservation best-management practices. |