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I am in Southern NH and am looking to contact anyone in the region that has experience with ArcPad.

Greetings GIS Community,

 

The Connecticut GIS User to User Group is proud to announce the new and updated web page http://ctgis.uconn.edu/ - Your source for information about the who, what, when, and where.

 

The upcoming quarterly meeting schedule will include:

 

October, 2010 @ University of CT Storrs – GIS Education opportunities and Freeware GIS

 

January, 2011 – the Annual meeting and How to achieve the GISP at the MDC Training Center in Hartford's south meadows

 

March, 2011 – What’s new in GIS for First Responders, Public Works, and Transportation in the New Haven area

 

April, 2011 – A special Saturday “Ground Up GIS” workshop at CCSU in New Britain

 

June, 2011 – The Census: GIS Data by the Numbers location TBA

 

October, 2011 – TBA

 

Please note that locations are tentative while we seek confirmation; we'll provide more info as meeting dates approach.

 

We want to know where you are (your work address, we respect your privacy if you don't want to tell use where you live)… tell us here http://gis1.students.ccsu.edu/U2U/U2UInfo.html

 

Oh behalf of the CT U to U Network Steering Committee,

 

Al Sylvestre, AICP

Research Analyst, U to U Network President CT State Department of Labor 200 Folly Brook Boulevard Wethersfield, CT  06109-1153

 

Al Sylvestre, AICP

Research Analyst

CT State Department of Labor

200 Folly Brook Boulevard

Wethersfield, CT  06109-1153

alan.sylvestre@ct.gov

As the only GIS employee in my town* (the only one with "GIS" in my job title anyway), I am often isolated from what other people are doing - both here in City Hall and among the other city or town GIS specialists. It's up to me to determine my priorities and what projects to take on, except of course when I'm responding to mapping emergencies which take up much of my time. I often wonder if there are better things I can or should be doing with my time. What are you doing at the moment?

I'll start with my task list for this week - keep in mind that many of these are ongoing projects and not things I expect to finish this week. Please tell us about your projects.

1. New web page update for the Assessor's Database from Applied Geographics - testing performance and server maintenance, some parts of the app still don't work, keep reminding them of this.

2. The Assessor's Database (Vision) app. Vision has a GIS piece. It is an old MapObjects piece with no easy access to the configuration files. The addresses are displayed using an Annotation coverage. The coverage has been updated but needs some tweaks because the display is off (numbers are shifted to the lower right or SE of where they should be).

3. Web GIS Browser - a JavaScript API application that is not public yet (we need to work out some server issues.) Need to add some better descriptions for codes in the data.

4. ESRI's Community Maps project. We are participants - or will be.

5. Post some content to the Eastern Mass Group Forum - doing that right now.

6. Street Light Viewer - a MapObjects application used in our call center and DPW. Need to add content for Gas Lamps and Specialty Street Lights as these are maintained differently from the regular street lights.

7. Newton History Museum - will be having a map exhibit this fall,. Need to set up some test online content and later some on-site content.

8. Water System Edits - several years worth of new pipes need to be entered. The DPW should do this but they don't so I do it or we look bad.

9. Building updates - new construction, most notably the new Newton North High School which we still don't have a digital plan for despite the
fact that it is now built.

*Newton, Mass is a "City", some of you are in "Town"s- I use the term "town" for simplicity.