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Making New Friends at the MSGIC Summer Quarterly

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…

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Vision Zero Prince George’s ESRI HUB Site

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…

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MSGIC Bylaws

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…

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Monitor real-time emergencies with ArcGIS Dashboards

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…

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Upcoming MSGIC Emerging Professionals Events & TUgis

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…

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PG County awarded from Esri a 2021 Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award

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…

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Maryland Society of Surveyors Webinar – Location Intelligence: The New Geographic Information Systems

Since the Maryland Society of Surveyors cannot hold its Spring Technical Conference in person due to the Coronavirus limitations, it’s offering the scheduled sessions as a series of webinars. Join us for the first in the series: Location Intelligence: The New Geographic Information Systems, to be presented Tuesday, May 26 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM. Our instructor is Julia Fischer, Geographic Information Officer for the State of Maryland. Today’s GIS is used by thousands of users, combining market information, data…

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Marylander Appointed to the National Geospatial Advisory Committee

MSGIC is proud to announce the appointment and installation by the United States Department of Interior of Doug Adams (Baltimore County Government) to the National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC) as a County representative. The NGAC provides advice and recommendations on national geospatial policy and management issues, the development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), and the implementation of the Geospatial Data Act of 2018. The NSDI promotes geospatial data sharing across all levels of government, the private and non-profit…

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MSGIC Lunch and Learn Events

MSGIC is excited to announce a series of hard-hitting virtual lunch and learn sessions for the everyday professional focused on adapting to, and thriving in, a remote working environment. Sessions will be broken into a 5-part series over the course of 10 weeks catered to professionals from all industries on navigating the transition to remote work, and how to maximize productivity in a remote setting. These sessions will serve as a rapid exchange of information that helps educate professionals on…

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Ready to Deliver: Ellicott City QL1 LIDAR

With the Howard County Executive releasing a flood mitigation plan for Ellicott City yesterday, the QL 1 LiDAR for the Ellicott City area is finally complete and ready to be distributed. The data were acquired in December 2018 with a minimum of 8 points/sq meter, and vertical RMSEz of 10cm, and a point spacing of no more than .35m for 42 square mile polygon including the entire watershed area draining to Ellicott City, and includes a segment of the Patapsco River…

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