ESRGC Archives - Maryland State Geographic Information Committee

Girls Innovation Academy Explores the World of GIS with ESRGC

July 16, 2017

This is a re-post of a June 2017 blog entry from the Eastern Shore Regional GIS Cooperative website. Find out more about ESRGC and read more articles on their blog at ESRGC.org. On Tuesday afternoon the ESRGC hosted the Girls Innovation Academy summer camp. The Girls Innovation Academy (GIA) is a three-week summer camp at Salisbury University for middle school girls and focuses on technology, communication, and leadership. Dr. Lembo began the session with an overall discussion of the definition of…

Update on various lidar projects around Maryland

April 28, 2015

Roger Barlow

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I wanted to keep everyone posted on the most recent updates on the lidar collection in Maryland. I have seen the projected delivery schedule for the NCR QL2 Sandy lidar which includes: DC, most of Fairfax, Arlington County, Alexandria VA, PG, Charles, and St. Mary’s counties. The contractor has completed the Pilot Data phase and USGS QA has approved that phase. This includes Fundamental Vertical Accuracy reporting of unclassified .las points, and 5 sq mile of sample classified points in…

Updates from Maryland’s Open Data Council

November 24, 2014

Elliott Plack

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The second meeting of the Maryland Open Data Council was held Friday, October 3rd at the Governor’s Reception Room at Maryland’s State House in Annapolis. Topics ranged from whether it is still acceptable for local governments and municipalities to charge a fee for GIS data, streamlining state Public Information Act requests, to a lengthy discussion on Montgomery County’s Open Data portal. Background “It is the policy of the state that open data be machine readable and released to the public…

Maryland’s Statewide Orthoimagery Program: An Update, and Efforts to Provide Faster, Better and Less Expensive Data

March 10, 2014

Jim Cannistra

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Maryland’s orthoimagery program recently benefited from two milestones: the 2013 Eastern Shore imagery project (covering nine counties) was completed, and a multi-year contract was awarded to Axis Geospatial and URS Consultants for future orthoimagery program updates. Under the first phase of the new contract 4-band 6” high resolution orthoimagery will be produced for western shore counties, including the city of Baltimore. Funded by the Emergency Number Systems Board (ENSB), program management is being overseen by the Department of Planning (MDP)…