Hot News Items - June 2006
GENERAL NEWS

CGIA Board Appoints New Vice Chair
On 19 May 2006, Dean Angelides, Vice Chair of CGIA, resigned from his position on the CGIA Board. Pursuant to the CGIA By-Laws, Section 12C, "if the Vice-Chair is unable to complete his or her term or the position is vacated due to accession of the Vice Chair to the position of Chair, then the Board shall appoint a member of the Board of Directors to the position of Vice Chair. At the 6 June 2006 CGIA Board meeting, the Board appointed Mary Cook-Hurley as the new Vice Chair. Many of you know Mary - a second year CGIA Board Member - as the Private Sector Board representative from AirPhoto USA and the CGIA Conference Chair. Mary's experience and knowledge of the GIS community throughout California and the nation will be a vital asset to CGIA. Please join CGIA in welcoming Mary to the Vice Chair position. On July 1, 2006, Mary will become the next CGIA Chair for 2006-07 pursuant to the CGIA By-Laws.

CGIA Board Member Elections
The nominations process for CGIA Board positions has been completed and the election process is underway. Each year the Vice Chair and one representative from each sector (City Government, County Government, Regional Government, State Government, Federal Government, Private Sector, Utilities, Education, and Professional Societies and Not-for-Profits) are elected to serve a two year term on the CGIA Board. It's that time of year again to vote for your CGIA Board Officers. CGIA has been very active this last year and continues to help facilitate coordination, collaboration, and counsel for California's Geographic Information System (GIS) community. As a member in good standing, you will find a ballot for the election of CGIA officers, as well as Candidate Statements, on the Board Roster page. Thanks for supporting CGIA.

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CGIA Annual Meeting
CGIA will hold its Annual Meeting on Wednesday, June 28, 2006 at 10:00 am, using a telephone conference call-in number (605-990-0100, code 1090016#). An agenda and call-in information will be circulated on the CGIA website one week prior to the meeting. This meeting is open to both members and those considering membership. The focus of the meeting will be to announce the results of the CGIA Board elections process and review the 2005-06 Annual Report.

Metadata Updates are Important to Us
Mary Tsui has been conducting metadata workshops for CGIA under CAP grant funding. A summary of each workshop and lessons learned will be published within the next three months. Contact Mary Tsui at for more information.

As you change your data service offerings, please don't forget to update the appropriate metadata records for your organization in the California Environmental Information Catalog (http://gis.ca.gov/catalog/). If you haven't already created records for your data and information resources in CEIC, please do so. CEIC has been endorsed by the California GIS Council and is California's principal National Spatial Data Infrastructure node. CEIC records are harvested by Geospatial One-Stop (http://gos2.geodata.gov/wps/portal/gos). You can enter data directly into CEIC using its online data entry forms or "publish" your metadata for harvesting by CEIC.

CGIA Facilitates Regional Surveys
CGIA recently coordinated with regional collaboratives to complete surveys of regions. These annual surveys provide background on the status and accomplishments of regional collaboratives, and also provide guidance for regional collaboratives who can learn valuable lessons from the different regional collaboratives/council approaches that exist throughout California. For more information about the surveys or to get a survey for your regional to complete, contact Carol Ostergren at , who led this CGIA initiative. Links to completed surveys are available on the GIS Councils page.

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CGIA Becomes listed in GOS2
CGIA has joined the national Geospatial One Stop (GOS) Portal at http://gos2.geodata.gov/wps/portal/gos - click on Local Government at the bottom left hand corner of the page and scroll down to Consortia & Regional Associations. Is there any reason that your organization, especially California's regional collaboratives/councils, has not joined GOS2?

GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
ESRI and Trimble Announce Call for Demonstration Projects for Government Mobility: Coastal Communities Edition

• Ten State or Local Governments to Receive Software, Hardware, and Training to Develop Mobile Public Domain Applications Related to Disciplines Serving Coastal Communities

Information on the Grant can be found at:
http://www.esri.com/grants/esri/trimble_coast_032306.html

Request for Submittal of Statement of Qualifications and Proposal for a Geographic Information Systems Orthophoto, Basemap, Associated Layers, and Data

The University of California, Riverside (UCR) requests proposals (RFP) from qualified consultants to assist the Office of Academic Planning and Budget (APB) in preparing a seamless, campus-wide, integrated digital map, herein referred to as the "Map." The Map will use digital orthophotography for the development of various base map products in a computerized Geographic Information System (GIS) that will help meet the needs of the campus in the following: a campus base map with physical boundaries and locations of facilities, streets, sidewalks, and topography. It is the intent that additional "layers" will be developed in the future to support campus administrative units such as physical plant (infrastructure), fire (locations of fire lanes, hydrants, etc.), and Office of Design & Construction (for architectural design consultants and contractors). The orthophotography is to be supplied by the successful consultant and will be the foundation of this system, acting as a reference network and base for additional spatial data development and GIS applications by other campus units.

The Map will consist of the following layers:

• Color Digital Orthophoto (1' resolution)
  Campus Property Line/Parcels
  Buildings/Structures/Athletic Fields & Facilities
  Streets (Paved & Dirt)
  Sidewalks/walkways
  Parking Lot areas
  Topography (contour lines at 1' intervals)
  Additive alternate layers will consist of the following:
  
• Color Digital Orthophoto (6" resolution)
  Campus vegetation/landscape
  Campus trees
  Electrical/Gas/Sewer infrastructure
  Campus lighting (street and sidewalk lights)
  Athletic Fields/Facilities
  

The base map will serve as the foundation of a larger GIS initiative that is being pursued by Capital & Physical Planning, which is a division of Academic Planning & Budget. Currently the unit has several ArcGIS v. 9.x site licenses. All GIS deliverables produced via this effort will be utilized by desktop GIS terminals and held on a central server utilized by the entire office with the intent of creating a web-based enterprise GIS.

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