MEGUG Fall Meeting 2003

Program

*This program is subject to change.

Time	Presenter	Abstract
8:00	Registration
9:00	Richard Cost President, University of Maine at Fort Kent	Welcome Address
9:15	Mike Eisensmith, Project Impact Coordinator, Town of Fort Fairfield Andrew McNeally, GIS consultant for Fort Fairfield Mark R. Bradstreet, Bradstreet Consultants, Inc.	Project Impact - Fort Fairfield Based on a high resolution spring 2003 aerial photography taken by the James W. Sewall Company (Old Town, ME), Fort Fairfield is using recently compiled cadastral (tax mapping) mapping as well as photogrammetrically compiled planimetric and topographic data to enhance their implementation of "Project Impact". This FEMA funded project that attempts to mitigate the potential risks that the town faces, namely flooding from the Aroostook River. How the cadastral and photogrammetric mapping data has and will be organized into an ESRI personal geodatabase will be the focus of this presentation. ArcGIS 8.x is tool that will be used to mine the data to see the towns assets spatially and base future decisions upon. Compliance with government standards such as GASB34 is "spin-off" benefit of the GIS project. To invite questions and a lively discussion, breif overviews will be presented of the projects specifications (RFP), funding sources, tax maps compilatoin and the principles involved to set up a photogrammetric mapping project as it relates to creating a user friendly GIS dataset that will benefit cities and towns.
9:35	Dave Hobbins Prof. of Forestry and Environmental Studies Univ. of Maine at Fort Kent	What Makes a Good Map An interactive discussion of cartographic design principles as it relates to digital cartography.
10:10	Jeff Dubis Asst. Prof. of Forestry Univ. of Maine at Fort Kent	The Use of GPS/GIS Technologies in Local Communities Discussion of various mapping projects and their benefit to the local community.
10:35	Refreshments Break
11:00	Richard Dressler, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife	Beginning with Habitat: An approach to conserving Maine's natural landscape for plants, animals and people Beginning with Habitat is a cooperative effort of several agencies and organizations working together to provide organized towns in Maine the information needed to conserve plant and animal habitats. Beginning with Habitat is a landscape approach based on conserving riparian habitats, high value plant and animal habitats, and large blocks of open space. The underlying goal of the program is to maintain sufficient habitat to support all native plant and animal species currently breeding in Maine by providing each Maine town with a collection of maps and accompanying information that can help guide conservation of valuable habitats and open space.
11:30	Joseph Mints Forest Ranger Maine Forest Service	Use of GIS by Maine Forest Service Presentation on forest fire history in the state of Maine and the role of GIS. Also, a demonstration of the Fire Plot program used for mapping Maine’s forest fires.
12:00	Matthew Bampton, USM Dave Hobbins, UMFK Cathleen McAnneny, UMF Joe Szakas, UMA Bill Weigle, UMM	The Maine GIS Consortium Presentation of research and curriculum developed through an NSF Grant by the five University of Maine System Schools that comprise the Maine GIS Curriculum Consortium.
12:30	Lunch
1:30	Dan Walters Maine Office of GIS	Geolibrary Update This presentation will be an overview of the new Maine Library of Geographic Information and Board. Initial activities of the board will be reviewed including information on the high resolution statewide digital orthoimagery project, standards and a soon to be announced GIS grant program for municipalities.
2:00	Marc Levesque	Emergency Response and Homeland Security This session will provide an overview of some approaches to GIS for emergency response and homeland security and how it is being used locally by the Mid Coast Maine Law Enforcement Emergency Management Task Force based in Brunswick, Maine.
2:30	Nicole Bistrais Anji Brockmann Maine Office of GIS	Maintaining E911 Roads Data for Multiple Uses Teaming up with Addressing Officers to keep the data set current. We will also give a brief overview of some applications and services the Office of GIS is developing and supporting related to addressing.
3:00	John A. Ferketic Director, GIT Services James W. Sewall Company	NSTAR Data Sharing Program NSTAR Electric and Gas, a major energy company located in Boston, has contracted with the James W. Sewall Company to provide planimetric and utility mapping for 39 towns on the Massachusetts South Shore, Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard. To promote a data sharing environment in the region, NSTAR is making the map products available to the towns at a significantly reduced rate. This presentation seeks to provide details about this public/private partnership program including the design of the data products, details of the data sharing arrangement, an attractive lease/purchase options available to the towns and the establishment of a long term maintenance opportunities.
3:30	Glenn Gagne Manager of Engineering Services Central Maine Power Company	An Overview of CMP's SmartMap GIS Application CMP uses a Windows-based application called SmartMap for company-wide access to GIS data. SmartMap is installed on desktop PC’s. It provides over 300 users with the ability to quickly display all distribution and transmission facilities and to query database records that are related to those facilities. The graphical map features contain key-fields that allow the program to easily query DB2, Oracle, and Access databases for additional data after the user clicks on a feature. The property records database (AMPS), work management system (WMS), customer data warehouse (CDW), transmission maintenance database, four-minute extracts from the Harris Energy Management System (EMS), and all scanned Plan/Profile, system diagram, and construction standards documents are linked to SmartMap. SmartMap was developed by CMP using Visual Basic and ESRI's Map Objects development tools.
3:55	Farewell

Time

Presenter

Abstract

8:00

Registration

9:00

Richard Cost
President, University of Maine at Fort Kent

Welcome Address

9:15

Mike Eisensmith, Project Impact Coordinator, Town of Fort Fairfield Andrew McNeally, GIS consultant for Fort Fairfield Mark R. Bradstreet, Bradstreet Consultants, Inc.

Project Impact - Fort Fairfield
Based on a high resolution spring 2003 aerial photography taken by the James W. Sewall Company (Old Town, ME), Fort Fairfield is using recently compiled cadastral (tax mapping) mapping as well as photogrammetrically compiled planimetric and topographic data to enhance their implementation of "Project Impact". This FEMA funded project that attempts to mitigate the potential risks that the town faces, namely flooding from the Aroostook River. How the cadastral and photogrammetric mapping data has and will be organized into an ESRI personal geodatabase will be the focus of this presentation. ArcGIS 8.x is tool that will be used to mine the data to see the towns assets spatially and base future decisions upon. Compliance with government standards such as GASB34 is "spin-off" benefit of the GIS project. To invite questions and a lively discussion, breif overviews will be presented of the projects specifications (RFP), funding sources, tax maps compilatoin and the principles involved to set up a photogrammetric mapping project as it relates to creating a user friendly GIS dataset that will benefit cities and towns.

9:35

Dave Hobbins
Prof. of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Univ. of Maine at Fort Kent

What Makes a Good Map
An interactive discussion of cartographic design principles as it relates to digital cartography.

10:10

Jeff Dubis
Asst. Prof. of Forestry
Univ. of Maine at Fort Kent

The Use of GPS/GIS Technologies in Local Communities
Discussion of various mapping projects and their benefit to the local community.

10:35

Refreshments Break

11:00

Richard Dressler, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife

Beginning with Habitat: An approach to conserving Maine's natural landscape for plants, animals and people
Beginning with Habitat is a cooperative effort of several agencies and organizations working together to provide organized towns in Maine the information needed to conserve plant and animal habitats. Beginning with Habitat is a landscape approach based on conserving riparian habitats, high value plant and animal habitats, and large blocks of open space. The underlying goal of the program is to maintain sufficient habitat to support all native plant and animal species currently breeding in Maine by providing each Maine town with a collection of maps and accompanying information that can help guide conservation of valuable habitats and open space.

11:30

Joseph Mints
Forest Ranger
Maine Forest Service

Use of GIS by Maine Forest Service
Presentation on forest fire history in the state of Maine and the role of GIS. Also, a demonstration of the Fire Plot program used for mapping Maine’s forest fires.

12:00

Matthew Bampton, USM
Dave Hobbins, UMFK
Cathleen McAnneny, UMF
Joe Szakas, UMA
Bill Weigle, UMM

The Maine GIS Consortium
Presentation of research and curriculum developed through an NSF Grant by the five University of Maine System Schools that comprise the Maine GIS Curriculum Consortium.

12:30

Lunch