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IMAGIN E-News - February, 2007
Current News
IMAGIN Student Paper Competition a Success! - The 2007 IMAGIN Poster & Paper Competition ran flawlessly this year with four undergraduate poster and four graduate paper winners. The competition was held Thursday, January 25, at Schoolcraft College in Livonia Michigan. The competition kicked off at noon with the Undergraduate Gallery Walk with the students standing by their poster submissions. At 1:00, after a welcome by the Professional Recognition Committee, the Graduate Paper competitors, addressing a full room, began their presentations. For more information about the competition and the entrants, please see the IMAGIN web site at: http://www.imagin.org/awards/studentp.html
Eric Swanson Talks Mashups with Governing.Com - Michigan Center for Geographic Information (CGI) Director Eric Swanson is one of the people interviewed regarding Google Mashups in a recent Governing.com interview. See the article at: http://www.governing.com/articles/2talk.htm
Preliminary Programs on their way - The preliminary programs and sign up forms for the 2007 IMAGIN Conference are being sent out. Watch your mail for your forms and sign up soon to reserve the FREE workshop of your choice. We have an excellent line up of speakers, presentations and workshops. Vendor packets are also being sent out with several new ways to sponser the 2007 IMAGIN Conference to promote your organization using the method you choose. For more conference information, see: http://www.imagin.org/conference/
Michigan Museum of Surveying - The Museum of Surveying is the only Museum in North America dedicated solely to the surveying and mapping profession. It is located in Lansing near the Capital Building. Find out more at: http://www.surveyhistory.org/museum_of_surveying_michigan.htm
Note: The Museum will/may be moving to Illinois so you may want to make your plans to see it sooner rather than later. See details at: http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/108497.asp
Golf Anyone? - Plan to join your colleagues for a friendly round of golf at the IMAGIN 2007 Conference. The annual golf outing uses the ‘golfer friendly’ scramble format that allows people of all abilities to come out and enjoy playing without pressure. The scramble format is where each person hits off the tee and then each person hits from where the best tee shot landed and play continues like that for each shot. Join up as a group, or just sign yourself up and you’ll be added to a team. The golf outing will start at 12:30 on Sunday, May 6th with check-in beginning at 11:30. Cart, 18 holes, dinner buffet and prizes are included. For more information, see the conference page at: http://www.imagin.org/conference/
Do you know any GIS Students? - If you know any GIS students, you may want to forward your copy of the E-News on to them. With their busy schedules, the IMAGIN E-News may be the best way for students to keep informed of what is going on with GIS in Michigan. Students would be particularily interested in the job openings and the next IMAGIN student paper competition where they can win cash prizes.
Looking for GIS Help or Looking for a GIS job? - If you are looking to hire a GIS professional or you want to get noticed by the people who may be browsing for available GIS professionals, don't forget to check the IMAGIN web site resume page at: http://www.imagin.org/resources/resumes.html
Monthly Theme
This month's theme is "GIS in City Government".
City of Midland to visualize police incident information. - The City of Midland has selected LGcrimesweb from Geographic Technologies Group, Inc. to aid in the visualization of their police incident information. For more information, please see: www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?section=CorpNews&articleid=354121
Detroit Native Using Web Maps to help Better Detroit - Tony Smith is a Detroit native who is using web gis technology to help Detroit become a better place and he is taking his technology nationwide as well. Read the full Detroit Free Press article at: http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070129/BLOG07/70129008/1138
Note: See related link below.
Detroit Development Illustrated - View Detroit's development through historical aerial imagery from 1949 to 2005 at: http://detroit1976.naviciti.com/index2.php
New E-News Theme! - In addition to our permanent 'GIS in Michigan' coverage, we will begin having an additional theme for each monthly issue. This theme will not limit the E-News articles to only this theme, but rather it will provide an additional focus for some of the articles.
The theme for the March 2007 issue of E-News is "GIS in County Government".
Send any ideas you have relating to the general 'GIS in Michigan' theme of the E-News or the special theme for next month to enews@imagin.org.
Upcoming Events
  • March 4-7, 2007: URISA Integrating GIS & CAMA Conference, Las Vegas, NV
  • March 12, 2007: IMAGIN 2007 Annual Conference Speaker Registration Deadline
  • March 17-19, 2007: 2007 ESRI Worldwide Business Partner Conference, Palm Springs, CA
  • March 19-22, 2007: 2007 ESRI Developer Summit, Palm Springs, CA
  • April 15-18, 2007: URISA Geospatial Integration for Public Safety Conf., New Orleans, LA
  • April 23-25, 2007: 2007 ESRI Business GeoInfo Summit, Dallas, TX
  • May 6, 2007: IMAGIN 2007 Conference Golf Outing, Kalamazoo, MI
  • May 6, 2007: IMAGIN 2007 Conference Speaker Appreciation Reception, Kalamazoo, MI
  • May 7-9, 2007: IMAGIN 2007 Conference, Radisson Plaza Hotel, Kalamazoo, MI
  • May 6-7, 2007: MapInfo 2007 Global DevSummit, Seattle, WA
  • May 8-10, 2007: MapInfo 2007 Global User Conference, Seattle, WA
  • May 23, 2007: Macomb County GIS Users Group Meeting, Mt. Clemens, MI
  • June 11-13, 2007: GPS World Conference & Expo, Rosemont, IL
  • June 14, 2007: SEMCOG GIS User Group Meeting, Detroit, MI
  • June 16-19, 2007: 2007 ESRI Survey & Engineering GIS Summit, San Diego, CA
  • June 16-19, 2007: 2007 ESRI Education User Conference, San Diego, CA
  • June 18-22, 2007: 2007 ESRI International User Conference, San Diego, CA
  • July, 2007: ESRI Northern Michigan User Group Meeting
  • August 20-23, 2007: URISA Annual Conference & Exhibition, Washington, DC
  • September 12-14, 2007: MiCAMP Fall County GIS Conference, Boyne Mountain Resort, MI
  • For more events, see the IMAGIN Calendar of Events
    • Training
    Date(s) D Organization City Description
    March 6-8, 2007 Y MSU RS&GIS E. Lansing Aerial Imagery Interpretation for Land Cover/Land Use
    March 14-16, 2007   ESRI Livonia Managing Editing Workflows in the Multiuser Geodatabase (9.2)
    March 19-20, 2007   ESRI E. Lansing Introduction to ArcGIS I (9.x)
    March 21-23, 2007   ESRI E. Lansing Introduction to ArcGIS II (9.x)
    April 11-13, 2007   ESRI E. Lansing Building Geodatabases (9.2)
    April 16-18, 2007   ESRI E. Lansing Introduction to ArcGIS for the DIHSLE Communities (9.1)
    April 23-24, 2007 Y MSU RS&GIS E. Lansing Introduction to ArcGIS
    For links to Michigan GIS training facilities visit the IMAGIN training page.
    To include your Michigan GIS training in this list, send the details to: enews@imagin.org
    D = IMAGIN Members get a 10% discount on this training.
    Spotlight on Supporting Organizations
    North Arrow Technologies North Arrow Technologies, Inc. - Located in Fenton, Michigan, North Arrow Technologies provides GIS solutions to clients in the public and private sectors. As an ESRI business partner, we offer services designed around ArcGIS software, including implementation, customization, training, and technical support. We are also a business partner of Azteca Systems, the developer of Cityworks. Cityworks is the premier GIS-based Asset and Maintenance Management System.
    To learn more about our GIS services or Cityworks, contact us at 810-714-3326 or visit http://www.northarrowtech.com
    Oakland County Information Technology
    Oakland County Information Technology Department - The Department of Information Technology (IT) is a service bureau that provides IT services to 82 County divisions, more than 60 local governmental units (assessors, treasurers, law enforcement, etc.), over 50 private sector customers, and over 900 @ccess Oakland customers. IT is responsible for over 150 major applications consisting of more than 8,000 programs and provides systems support, maintenance, enhancements, and new development for all major systems applications. For more information please see our web site at: http://www.oakgov.com/infotech/
    Each month, this section will highlight one or two of our supporting organizations. If your organization would like to be in the spotlight, please contact IMAGIN headquarters about becoming a supporting organization.
    Web Mapping Site of the Month
    Wayne County - Wayne County provides several interactive maps on the web including base map information, cadastral information, commission district/voter precincts, community services, school districts and travel/transportation. It also includes information on shopping including banks, malls, auto dealers and other private companies. See their web page at: http://www.waynecounty.com/gis/map.htm#
    Employment
    Job Openings
    Organization Title
    Genesee County GIS Director
    City of Battle Creek GIS Specialist
    Prein & Newhof GIS Specialist
    New Hires/Promotions/GISP's
    Organization Title Name
    To include your job openings, new hires, promotions or GISP certifications in this section, please send the information to enews@imagin.org. Please include the URL for your organization also. Check the IMAGIN jobs page for other openings.
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    Editor - Tara Maguire, GIS Coordinator, City of Birmingham
    Editor - Matt Malone, GIS Coordinator, City of Farmington Hills
    Editor - Brian Buckley, Senior GIS Specialist, Hubbell, Roth & Clark, Inc.
    Publication Date: February 28, 2007
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