URISA Annual Conference - Friday Program
Conference Program — Friday, September 29, 2006
Educational Sessions
8:30 – 10:00 AM
Management
Public Access and Data Control
Increased security concerns since 9/11 have caused governmental agencies to examine data control and public access concerns. This session will take a look at the legal and regulatory issues affecting public access to information. Explore the issues regarding the framework of the US public records laws. Learn how Indian Nations and tribes are using GIS technology, and the conflicts over ownership, access and control of that data. Examine the fundamental issues at stake - Indian Nations rights and interests interacting with federal and local issues.
- Public Access and Security Policies for Critical Infrastructure Information
Ed Wells, GISP, DC Office of the CTO, Washington, DC - Geospatial Data: Control and Access Issues for Indian Nations in the US
Lea Shanley, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI - Privacy, Security and Knowledge: The Domain of Integrated Information Resources
Christopher Michell-Viret, Corporate Services Division, Alberta Environment, Calgary, AB
Management
Geodata Environmental Management – An Impact on our Water
Gain insightful information regarding watershed geodata management and the over-all design of a flexible system to manage and organize policy setting issues. Learn how others have used Information and GIS technology to support informed decisions about water policy development, land use, conservation, land development, and responsible environmental stewardship.
- Upper Cahaba Watershed Greenprint
Patrick Peters, EDAW Inc, Atlanta, GA - Colorado Interbasin Roundtables: Trust and Collaboration
Phyllis Thomas, Phyllis Thomas Consulting, Centennial, CO - Marine Habitat Designs for the Vancouver Convention Centre Expansion Project
Richard Sims and Rick Hoos, EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd, Vancouver, BC
Data
From Model to Application: Cadastral Management, Start to Finish
This session is a comprehensive look at the process of building this system from design of the data model to issues associated with migration from data sources to deploying the data with a web based application.
- Integrated Cadastral Management Project – Cadastral Data Model
Paul Egesborg, Natural Resource Canada, Ottawa, ON - Integrated Cadastral Management Project – Data Conversion and Implementation Issues
Steve Rogers, Natural Resources Canada, Edmonton, AB - Integrated Cadastral Management Project – Parcel Mapping on Canada Lands Using Web GIS
Jason Holway, Natural Resources Canada, Edmonton, AB
Applications
Using GIS to Improve Productivity
One benefit from a mature GIS is its ability to streamline operations. This session provides insight into diverse examples including municipal permitting and regional planning.
- Managing Workflow at The City of Sarajevo Using RDBMS Long Transactions
Geoff Zeiss, Autodesk Inc, Ottawa, ON
Haris Kurtagic, SL-King, Inc., Llubjana, Slovenia - Planning Process Enhancements Through Internet Mapping
Michael Shean, GISP, MD Natl Captl Park & Planning Commission, Upper Marlboro, MD - Engineering GIS Overcomes the CAD/GIS Integration Obstacle
Michael Schlosser, Autodesk, Regina, SK
Applications
The Evolution of Web Based GIS Solutions in Government - Part I
Web-based GIS applications are becoming more and more common, particularly in government environments of all sizes. This session showcases three such examples from British Columbia including the Greater Vernon Services Water District, the Province of British Columbia, and the City of Vancouver Engineering Department and shows how the technology can be used to achieve very different objectives.
- GIS Data Integration at Greater Vernon Services Water Utility: Lessons Learned
Tjaart Van Den Berg, LandInfo Technologies, North Vancouver, BC - iMapBC: Self Service Access to The Provincial Land and Resource Data Warehouse
Chris Spicer, BC Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management, Victoria, BC - Managing Municipal Construction Projects Through the Web
Martin Tilt, City of Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
Hot Topics
First Nations and GIS
First Nations in British Columbia and elsewhere in Canada have been using GIS to manage land and resources and other traditional values. This session focuses on examples from two prominent First Nations based north of Vancouver in the Squamish Forest District. Both First Nations are the Host Nations for the 2010 Games and share with the audience the success and challenges of using GIS technology. The two case studies will be followed by a presentation on aboriginal mapping network that has evolved into a knowledge sharing forum for local First Nations technicians, leaders and decision makers to become a valuable strategic resource for practitioners of traditional knowledge mapping around the world.
- GIS in the Lil’wat Nation: Sharing our Experience
Tracy Howle, B.Sc., GIS A.S., Mount Currie Band Council - Lil'wat Nation, Lands & Resources Department, Mount Currie, BC - Evolution of GIS at the Squamish First Nation
Chrystal Nahanee, Squamish Nation Land Management Office, North Vancouver, BC - Aboriginal Mapping Network
Eliana MacDonald and Lucy Lee, Ecotrust Canada, GIS & Information Service, Vancouver, BC
Hot Topics
GIS Corps – GIS Saves!
The GISCorps, a program of URISA, coordinates short-term volunteer GIS services to underserved communities worldwide. Since last year, the Corps has implemented over ten missions in various regions of the world involving more than 60 volunteers. The GISCorps volunteers have offered their knowledge and expertise to communities in need in Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe, several African countries, and in the US after hurricane Katrina. This session will include information about GISCorps' implemented missions and lessons learned.
- Report on GISCorps Activities for 2005-2006
Shoreh Elhami, GISP, Delaware County, Delaware, OH
Juna Papajorgji, GISP, Alachua County, Gainesville, FL - GISCorps: Medical Mission Exchange Project
Clare Brown, GISP, KHAFRA Engineering, Atlanta, GA
Danielle Ayan, GISP, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Professional Development
Career Coaching: What You Can Learn From Successful GIS Professionals
Hear from a panel of managers from various disciplines who hire; interview tips; qualities desired, etc. Bring your questions and prepare for your future.
Panel participants to include:
Susan Johnson, City of Charlotte, NC
Anne Payne, GISP, Wake County, GIS, Raleigh, NC
Karen Stewart, GISP, Township of Langley, BC
David Cowen, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Educational Sessions
10:15 – 11:45 AM
Management
A Tale of Three Cities – London, Boston and Venice
Despite some encouraging progress, comprehensive urban information systems are still not commonplace and decision makers continue to struggle to acquire the rich information that they need to conduct in-depth analyses and to make important decisions. The concept of "City Knowledge" allows municipalities to take advantage of the unique opportunities brought about by recent advances in Information and Communication Technologies. This session will discuss the technical, administrative, and organizational steps municipalities have taken to implement this new information infrastructure approach and how town officials have consequently begun their transformation from "hunters-and-gatherers" of urban data toward "farmers" of municipal information.
- City Knowledge in London (UK), Boston (MA) and Venice (Italy)
Fabio Carrera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Adrian Hewitt, London Borough of Merton, Morden, Surrey, UK
Management
Essentials for an IT Infrastructure
Every IT infrastructure requires a solid foundation for support and growth of the IT environment. This session will cover many unique aspects of Enterprise Architectures required to support everything from an “integrated city” to “IT Lockdown”, and the resulting issues and impacts. These speakers will focus on disaster recovery planning, security and architecture.
- Disaster Recovery Planning for an IT Data Centre
Karen McGriskin, City of Grande Prairie - Maps Under Wraps: The Standoff Between Enterprise Security and Innovation
Greg Bury, Naval Air Engineering Station, Lakehurst, NJ - The Aftermath of Enterprise Architecture
Alva Robinson and Donna Davis, Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax, NS
Data
The Data About Data - Metadata Solutions
Though not always the most enjoyable or rewarding process in GIS development, accurate and timely metadata is just as critical as data creation, and it is extremely important in data discovery. This session focuses on the metadata processes--creation and dissemination.
- What About Metadata?
Robert Parenteau, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, ON - Implementing CSDGM Metadata Based Enterprise Data Catalog
Carl Anderson, Fulton County, Atlanta, GA - Integrated Land Management Bureau Solutions to Data Discovery
Elaine Dawson, Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, Victoria, BC
Tools
Transportation Tools of the Trade
See innovative GIS-based transportation tools in action. Demonstrations and examples will focus on real world Right-of-Way data management and analysis. Additional tools will highlight innovative concepts associated with street network analysis for developing and designing safer roadways.
- Tracking Right-of-Way Land Acquisition
Alex Kavanagh and Michael Bieberitz, HNTB, Chicago, IL - Using GIS Analysis to Determine the Influence of Street Network on Traffic Crash
Yong jun Ahn, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL - Utilizing GIS Tools to Track The Cost of ROW Acquisition – A Case Study of Collier County, FL Jason Amadori,Data Transfer Solutions, LLC, Orlando, FL
Applications
The Evolution of Web Based GIS Solutions in Government — Part II
Web-based GIS applications are becoming more and more common, particularly in municipal environments of all sizes. Three such examples will be showcased including Nanaimo British Columbia, Charlotte-Mecklenburg North Carolina, and Chicago Illinois and shows how the technology can be used to achieve very different objectives.
- Implementing an “Across the Board” Web-GIS Solution
Tom Sohier, Regional District of Nanaimo, Nanaimo, BC - Building a Web-Based Economic Development GIS System: A Unique Public-Private Partnership
Todd Wilson, GISP, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, NC
Tony Crumbley, Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, Charlotte, NC - Full Circle: A Web-based Neighborhood Data Collection & Mapping System
Lee Ann Deuben and Hubert Morgan, Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, Chicago, IL
Hot Topics
Planning I: Land Use and Zoning
These sessions discuss the growing need to incorporate business intelligence, land use modeling, and stakeholder input into the planning process. Human behavior and attitudes, along with business intelligence can be simulated in models to assist in forecasting the future of our built environment.
- Geospatial Business Intelligence Applied to Planning and Zoning
Martin Roche, EarthData International, Miami Beach, FL - Integrating GIS and Bayesian Networks For A Multi-Agent Model of Land Use Change
Verda Kocabas and Suzana Dragicevic, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC - Self-Organizing Maps and GIS for Representing Land Use Change Attitudes
Shivanand Balram and Suzana Dragicevic, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
Professional Development
Defining the Practice of GIS
There seems to be growing friction between the Survey community and GIS practitioners regarding the professional practice of each. When NCEES drafted their first model law, GIS should only be practiced under of by a licensed Land Surveyor. While the model law has been modified, there is still much misunderstanding of how GIS and Surveying can practice together. After 3 years of grass roots negotiations, developing trust and a cooperative spirit between the three disciplines, Oregon Surveyors, GIS Professionals and Photogrammetrists drafted new legislation clearly defining what is GIS, what is Surveying, and what is Photogrammetry as professional practice. The session will consist of a panel of those who were part of the process, looked at the issues, educated one another, and came up with professional practice differences that we could all agree to.
Participants:
- Eric Bohard, GISP, Clackamas County, OR
- James Plasker, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Bethesda, MD
- Dean Anderson, Polk County, OR (Chair of the Oregon GIS Association)
- Chuck Pearson, PLS, Clackamas County, OR
- Bruce Joffe, GISP, GIS Consultants, Oakland, CA
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM
Lunch on your own
Educational Sessions
1:00 – 2:30 PM
Management
Progressive GIS Use
GIS is maturing and sophisticated uses are being developed. This session highlights some of the more advanced uses of GIS including the creation and role of a GIO (Geospatial Information Officer), Enterprise Information Dashboards which enhance decision making and transition organizations from reactive to proactive management, and a public participatory use of GIS in Sweden.
- Case for a GIO in Georgia
Danielle Ayan, GISP, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA - Enterprise Dashboards: Aligning Performance Management with Business Goals
Robert Walters, IndigeTech, Richmond, VA - Mapping Your Community – a Swedish Case Study on Communication of Landscape Qualities on the Internet and the Attitude Towards Public Participation
Niclas Ostlund, Swedish University, Alnarp, Sweden
Management
GIS for Policy and Decision Making
Policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in using geographic information technologies to examine the impacts of new or revised policies. Learn how initiatives have been designed to promote and build capacity for the application of geospatial technology in urban and rural land use planning and economic development. Topics to be discussed include the value of formalizing inter-organizational relationships to advance the adoption and use of geospatial technologies, as well as technical and institutional barriers to mainstream implementation.
- Bridging the Rural-Urban Differential using Internet GIS for Policy Analysis
Chris Fulcher, University of Missouri-CARES, Columbia, MO - Building Geospatial Technology Capacity for Rural Community Planning
Jeffrey Hamerlinck and Scott Lieske, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY - Sustainable/Smart Growth: Urban Governance and GIS
Roberto Figueroa, City of Regina, Regina, SK
Data
Solving the Puzzle of Data Integration
The multi-disciplined nature of GIS naturally leads to challenges when trying to integrate disparate data organization, sources and types. This session focuses on looking at solving many of these challenges. An update and progress report from URISA's Addressing Standards Working Group is also included in this session.
- An Integrated Multimodal Transportation Data Model
Al Butler, GISP, Butler & Butler LLC, Orlando, FL - URISA's Addressing Standards Working Group: Status & Update
Ed Wells, GISP, DC Office of the CTO, Washington, DC
Martha Lombard, GISP, Spatial Focus, Birmingham, AL
Hilary Perkins, GISP, Jacobs Civil, St Louis, MO
Sara Yurman, Spatial Focus, Decatur, GA
Carl Anderson, GISP, Fulton County, Atlanta, GA
Applications
National and Regional GIS Collaboration
As GIS implementations mature agencies are looking at ways to work together for their mutual benefit. This session showcases examples at the national and regional level where technology, data and ideas facilitate collaboration.
- SDI Initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons, Challenges and Prospects
Samuel Dekolo, Lagos State Polytechnic, Surulere Camp, Lagos, Nigeria - The Wisconsin Land Information Program: Its Rise and Fall
Patti Day, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Fox Point, WI
Hot Topics
Wireless Internet for the Whole County?...Yes, it is possible!
See why local governments across North America are jumping onto this bandwagon. This session provides an overview of this exciting new development in local and regional governments, examining the benefits and major issues for setting up such systems.
- David Dubauskas, Alberta Capital Regional Alliance, Sherwood Park, AB
- R. Scott Oppmann, Oakland County Information Technology, Pontiac, MI
Hot Topics
Planning II: Community Building and Modeling
Offering a look into how GIS in planning offers access to local relevant data, these presentations will include a look into data atlases, uses for LIDAR data, and managing urbanization in a sprawling Metropolis. The use of historical information, along with modeling and forecasting techniques, combine to assist urban and regional planners to best prepare us for the future.
- Building the Community Atlas to Support Community Building Activities
Shawn Landry, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL - LIDAR Data for Flood Plain Modeling LIDAR Data for Flood Plain Modeling
Gary Outlaw, GISP, Merrick & Company, Aurora, CO - Characteristics of Urban Sprawl in Seoul Metropolitan Region: 1985-2003
Hosang Sakong, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements, Korea
Seong Kil Kang, JungDo UIT Inc, Korea
Data
Electoral and Statistical Geographies in BC: Recent Activities and Future Directions
This session will explore:
1 . Elections BC - Data inputs and processes facilitating the Delineation of electoral districts in BC
2 . BC Stats - Supporting the provincial re-districting and other key initiatives.
3 . National Geographic Database Programme - geometric convergence project - setting the stage for further joint work
- Tim Werschler, Statistics Canada, Ottawa ON
Professional Development
Professional Development for all Stages of your Career
Attraction and retention of qualified spatial information professionals is a concern of every organization using the technology. Hear about a NSDI Training Program to support all sectors of the geospatial data community in the development of functional, interoperable, and sustainable geospatial data. Learn about a tool designed to build an organization's geospatial workforce through employee recruitment and selection, performance management, career development, and curriculum framework for training and education. Finally, Australia's Spatial Sciences Institute has a well-established Continuing Professional Development Policy that is committed to ensuring that its members maintain a level of knowledge that is relevant and up to date within and across their specializations. Come hear an international perspective on URISA's nascent professional development program and help guide it forward for the benefit of URISA members at all stages of their careers.
- National Spatial Data Infrastructure Training for Local and Regional Government
Lynda Wayne, GISP, GeoMaxim, Asheville, NC - Geospatial Online Professional Assessment Tool (GOPAT)
Matthew A Price, Institute GIS Studies, Franklin, TN - Wrap Up: Thoughts on Professional Development for all Stages of your Career
Tim Barker, Spatial Sciences Institute, Brisbane, Australia
2:45 – 4:00 PM
Closing Plenary - 2006 Exemplary Systems in Government (ESIG)TM Award Winners
Our Closing Plenary session will celebrate the 2006 URISA ESIGTM Award winners. Find out why these systems were evaluated to be exemplary and aspire to meet their accomplishments!
4:00 – 4:30 PM
URISA Annual Business Meeting
Hear from the URISA leadership about the current state of the association and plans for the coming year. Recognize outgoing Board members and welcome those who have just been elected to the Board.
Back to Main Conference Schedule
Online Registration is now closed.
If you would still like to register please print the downloadable pdf (download the pdf here)
and bring it to the Registration Desk onsite.