November 10th, 2009 - SLUG Meeting DiGIStThe second Salt Lake GIS Users Group (SLUG) meeting was held on November 10, 2009, from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm at Sandy City Hall. Drinks were provided by ESRI and a nice box lunch was provided by Azteca catered by Jason’s Deli.
We had 118 RSVP for the lunch, and had about 140 in attendance. This was a wonderful turnout! Business:
Presentations:Cindy Clark, AGRC - Vanishing History/Saving Geospatial DataCindy spoke about the need to preserve our old Geospatial data. There is an effort underway to permanently archive this through a State archival effort. This isn’t just storing old tapes or CD’s of data. Formats change over time; for the archived data to be useful it must be kept converted to the current format. For more info, contact Cindy at AGRC. Her presentation materials are available below. Joe Borgione, VECC - Database Replication and Internet Map ApplicationsJoe demonstrated the core concepts of database replication, discussed the ability for additional fields to be added at the child replica that are not shared at the parent. He also demonstrated the ESRI out-of-the-box methods used to create published GIS resources and internet map applications. Joe’s presentation materials are available below. Related Links:
GIS Humor – Ray Montgomery - A short humorous video: “Yakko’s World”. View it here.Dave Vaillancourt, ESRI - Building web apps w/ the Flex Sample ViewerDave explored the sample viewer for Flex, and did a walk through of configuring and customizing a web mapping application using free downloadable Widgets. Dave’s presentation materials are available below. Related Links: To our presenters and our sponsors, “Thank you!”
An after-meeting survey was sent out to all attendees. Results will be available soon. The next SLUG meeting will be Wed, Feb 10th, 2010. Topic will be “Aerial Photography in GIS”. Please plan on it now. Thanks for your interest and support!
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