Posted on behalf of the Maine GeoLibrary.

The Maine Library of Geographic Information (aka Maine GeoLibrary) is reaching out to you to solicit your input by filling out a brief (5-10 minutes) online survey for the Maine GeoLibrary's strategic plan update project.

The Timmons Group was selected to support the GeoLibrary Board in its work for planning our future. Their project plan includes identifying the Maine GeoLibrary Board operational needs and developing recommendations in the areas of executive leadership, membership, bylaws, increased collaborations, funding mechanisms, and support staffing. Progress updates to the Strategic Plan Project are located on the Maine GeoLibrary website under Strategic Plan.

Your response is very important to us, so PLEASE Act now to fill out the survey before the Friday, October 1^st due date!

• A brief Story Map on the Strategic Plan Update process is located here (includes the Stakeholder Survey at the end).
• Want to go straight to the survey without any upfront reading? Go here for the Stakeholder Survey.

Please share the survey with your colleagues, and anyone who uses or has an interest in geospatial data, we want to be sure everyone has a chance to help us plan for the State's geospatial needs.

Thank you for supporting the GeoLibrary and please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

Sincerely,

Claire Kiedrowski
Executive Director
Maine Library of Geographic Information
SHS 145
51 Commerce Drive
Augusta, Maine 04333-0145
Cell: (207) 266-7087

We have a new address! Please update your records:

Maine GIS User Group
190 US Rte 1 PMB 243
Falmouth, ME 04105

Missed one of our virtual lunch & learn events?  Follow us on YouTube and you can watch them here or share with colleagues:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6I2va8RxUSPJk1oV8f9T2w/videos

Please join us on June 10 as we welcome Claire Enterline of the Maine Department of Marine Resources and Dr. Tora Johnson of UMaine at Machias for a virtual lunch & learn event!

Claire Enterline will present the background and broad organization of the Maine Climate Council, and the timeline associated with the activities of the supporting Working Groups. She will outline the Coastal and Marine Working Group strategies, highlighting those with mapping and spatial components, and discuss how they will contribute to the Council's overarching goals. Dr. Johnson will discuss the work of the Community Resilience Working Group, review and answer questions about their recommendations as they relate to the geospatial data and issues, and outline next steps. 

Wednesday, June 10, 12:00 - 1:00 PM

Registration info

Join us as we welcome Claire Kiedrowski from the Maine GeoLibrary. Claire will give an overview of the orthoimagery and LiDAR programs for the state, and an update on what geospatial data we can expect in 2020. Landcover was added to our list!

Thursday May 21st, from Noon to 12:45pm

Watch the archived recording

From our partners at the Maine Municipal Association:

Due to the precautions being taken surrounding COVID-19, MMA will not be holding any training events or meetings for at least 8 weeks, which means that the Municipal Technology and New Energy Conference has been postponed. It has been rescheduled for Tuesday, December 8th at the Augusta Civic Center.

If you had already registered for the conference, you will automatically be registered for the new event date. However, if you cannot attend on that date and wish to cancel, please email wsreg@memun.org. There will be no cancellation fee imposed for those needing to cancel due to the date change. Cancelled registrations will be refunded if pre-paid.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns.

In light of the rapidly developing COVID-19 situation, we are postponing the MEGUG Lightning Talks event originally scheduled for later this month. A big thank you to Frontier in Brunswick for working with us on this reschedule.

MEGUG Lightning Talks will be held Wednesday, June 17 at Frontier in Brunswick. A reminder: this event is free but RSVP is required. Registration is open and we will send reminders and more details as the time draws closer.

RSVP: https://megug.org/event-3792703

The Maine GIS User Group is partnering with the Maine Municipal Association for the Maine Municipal Technology & New Energy Conference.  This year’s event is Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at the Augusta Civic Center.

If you are interested in presenting at the Maine Municipal Technology conference in our GIS track please contact Judy Colby-George as soon as possible.   We are looking for unique and interesting talks focused on GIS for municipalities.  Ideally your talk would feature some new technology or innovation that would be of interest to municipalities but we are open to most anything GIS.  Talks should be 30 minutes, or you can put together a panel discussion that would be a 60 minute slot.  We are flexible, so feel free to contact Judy with any ideas you think would be interesting.

If you are interested in sponsorship of the 2020 MMA Technology conference, please visit the sponsorship registration page.

MEGUG Day at Fall NEARC 2019 at Sunday River in Bethel, ME was a great success.  We are pleased to welcome new board members Don Katnik from Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and Becky Schaffner from Maine Dept of Envionmental Protection.  Thank you to out-going board members Nicole Cyr and Brad Folta for your service.