3rd Quarter

Geographic Information System (GIS)

Technical Forum

[all folks are welcome]

Surveying Data, Digital Submittals and GIS

Surveyor and Geographer Communities Collaboration

Date:           Tuesday Sept. 16, 2003                          Time:   1:30 PM - 5 PM

Location(s):    GOT-ITT Training Center,                                        Conference Room "G"
                (Behind the Frankfort Place Shopping Center)                    193 Versailles Road, Suite 59
                Division of Information Technology Training                     Frankfort KY 40601

OR

Attend from the comfort of your own office, company conference room, college lecture hall, professional association meeting room via FREE Internet webcasting and teleconferencing technologies.

Agenda (approximate timeframes)

1:30 p.m. - 1:45 PM     Introductions - Mike Soto
                        Announcements
1:45 p.m. - 2:00 PM     Host(s) - GOT-ITT Short presentation


 

Main Topics:
PRESENTATIONS:      < or =  60 mins (to include lecture, Q&A, & feedback form)

 2 - 3 PM
"Updating your GIS with Digital Submittals"
Earl Smith and Jennifer Weston  from the Georgetown-Scott County Planning Commission,
also Kentucky Association of Mapping Professionals (KAMP) members

A discussion of the Georgetown-Scott County ordinance for the Digital
Submittal of Subdivision Plats and Development Plans, and some specific CAD
functions that make it easy to convert to GIS shape file and merge into another layer,
 such as a PVA parcel base. [Georgetown-Scott County ordinance:
http://www.gscplanning.com/digital_submittals.htm]


 

3 - 4 PM
"Geodesy Lite for GIS Folks"
Ross Mackay, NGS Kentucky Geodetic Advisor

The talk will provide an overview of the geodetic layer, where maps
meet the ground. The concepts, background and applications of Coordinate
Systems, Datums and the importance of their metadata will be explained.
The status and future of Kentucky survey control data will be discussed.
[presentation PowerPoint:
http://ngs.ky.gov/pdf-ppt/GeodesyLite-KYGIS2003.ppt

4 - 5 PM

"GIS Quality Enhancement by Professional Surveyors"
John Schmidt,
President of NCAD and a founding member of the KAPS Northern KY Chapter

Survey Analyst (software by ESRI) provides a new layer type in the GIS.
Previously, the work of the Surveyor has been disconnected from the GIS,
handed over like orphaned eggs in the form of points, from which features
may be fostered. Today, the gathering of data from field observations, with
a growing variety of tools and methods, is managed by the Surveyor with
varying software. From each measuring device, flows information,
supplemented by the Surveyor, typically passing through a variety of data
formats, and includes substantial information, generally in terms of
Quality, i.e. accuracy, fidelity. Today, most of that information is outside
the eggshell and lost to the GIS. Until now, the quality of a GIS can only
roughly be stated, and typically cannot be verified. Successful
implementation of the Survey Analyst into the enterprise GIS will provide
for more complete characterization and validation of accuracy on the feature
layer in the GIS generally named Control, the foundation of the GIS.
[presentation abstract: http://ncad.net/SurvAn0916.htm]

 

For more Information and RSVP, contact:

Mike Soto at mike.soto@mail.state.ky.us         or      (502) 572-1450

FREE

Sponsored by the

KY Office of Geographic Information (OGI)