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It’s been three years since we last gathered at Salisbury University for our summer quarterly meeting. Following our July 2019 summer quarterly meeting, we gathered at Specific Gravity, a local beer and pizza place. Our server was a lively young woman entering her senior year at Salisbury University. She had recently completed Dr. Lembo’s spatial statistics class and wasn’t certain that a career in GIS was right for her. Being strong advocates of GIS, we told her to stick with…

Policy Background   Governments are undergoing an inspiring transformation to modernize and build open, responsive, and collaborative digital tools that support decisions and policy.   Vision Zero Prince George’s – Safe Streets for Everyone  In 2019, the County Executive launched Vision Zero Prince George’s, a countywide strategy to eliminate traffic-related serious injuries and deaths by 2040. The Department of Public Works and Transportation, the lead agency for Vision Zero Prince George’s, collaborates with partners across the County, State, and region.  Prince George’s County developed an ESRI based Vision Zero Prince George’s HUB site in…

Since first established in 1992, MSGIC has operated around bylaws intended to regulate and the way we function as an organization. Since that time, MSGIC has evolved from an organization that coordinated geospatial activities for State government, to an organization representing all sectors of Maryland, to our current state as a non-profit. During this evolution, the bylaws have been updated, with substantial changes made in 2012 when the organization officially became a non-profit. MSGIC has successfully operated under these bylaws…

MSGIC’s Emerging Professional Working Group has been working this summer to prepare for TUgis, an annual statewide GIS conference. This year’s TUgis conference will be held virtually and is scheduled from August 9th through August 13th. This conference provides opportunities for you and your students to hear about current GIS projects throughout the region while also networking with professionals, and we strongly encourage all to attend. More information about the conference can be found here. During the conference, MSGIC’s Emerging Professional’s…

We are pleased to invite you to our FREE upcoming training session: ArcGIS Dashboards enables users to convey information by presenting location-based analytics using intuitive and interactive data visualizations on a single screen. Join us in learning about the capabilities of ArcGIS Dashboards as well as best practices when implementing Dashboards for your organization. The second half of the workshop will include a hands-on exercise that will walk you through setting up a dashboard that tracks fire, police and medical…

Esri awarded Prince George’s County a 2021 Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award for their work on the County’s MS4 Stormwater GIS Enterprise System. Prince George’s County was selected as one of 170 sites from over 100,000 sites around the world recognized for outstanding work. This collaborative project, initiated by County’s Office of Information Technology (OIT-GIS) and the Department of the Environment (DoE) GIS personnel, worked with several agencies to automate collection and consolidate stormwater data needed to submit for the…

A large yellow quad-copter sat as a centerpiece on one of several dozen tables in the Wilde Lake Interfaith Center in Columbia. Throughout the room, GIS and survey professionals talked amongst themselves comparing technology, successes, and even the occasional embarrassing mistake. Procurement experts and government planners connected and talked about the challenges of expanding their operations.   The Baltimore Metropolitan Council (BMC) hosted the Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Information Exchange Forum on Tuesday, December 4. This event was the culmination…

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are systems designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial data. The world-wide GIS Community celebrates all things geospatial on GIS Day held annually in mid-November. GIS Day began almost 20 years ago as a way to share what the study of Geography and GIS with students. It has grown into an international day for showing off fun maps and projects to students and the public alike. The Eastern Shore Regional GIS Cooperative (ESRGC)…

NENA Information Document for GIS Data Stewardship for Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9 1 1) NENA‑INF‑028.1‑201Y (DRAFT) is available for Public Review and Comment. This document will assist Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) staff in understanding and adopting best practices related to managing specific GIS datasets in support of Next Generation 9 1 1 (NG9 11) deployments. You may both download this document for review and submit your comments here. All comments are due by midnight Eastern on December 31,…