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GENERAL NEWS

2006 CGIA Award Winners Announced

The winners of this year's CGIA Awards were announced at the CalGIS conference in Santa Barbara. This year's pool of nominees, submitted by their peers, well represented the diversity and strength of GIS around the state. The award winners, in the estimation of the judging committee, displayed exemplary implementation, innovation and success.

And the winners are:

• Chairman's Award for exemplary service to the California GIS community: Tom McDowell, City of Chula Vista
  
• Exemplary Systems Award for outstanding GIS implementation: San Diego Association of Governments, for its Landcore Land Information Geodatabase System project
• Advancement of Collaboration Award: Sacramento County Regional GIS Consortium, for their Homeland Security Address Data Portal
• Outstanding Internet Presentation Award: bd Systems and the (Bay Area) Metropolitan Transportation Commission, for the transit.511.org transit portal
• Excellence in Education Award: San Diego State University Department of Geography

Congratulations to all of the nominees and winners!

CGIA 2006-2007 Membership Drive Starting Now!

California Geographic Information Association (CGIA) is a non-profit, state-wide organization formed in 1994. CGIA supports the use, acquisition, exchange, and management of high-quality geographic information in the State of California among all interested agencies, institutions, companies, and individuals.

CGIA facilitates coordination, collaboration, and counsel for California's Geographic Information System (GIS) community. The chair's letter provides details about the benefits of joining or renewing membership with CGIA. Complete the CGIA membership form and mail it with your check today.

We are encouraging larger organizations and private sector firms to become "sustaining members" in 2006-07. Sustaining members will be listed on CGIA's web site with a link to their organization's web site. CGIA will support its sustaining members by including prominent information the monthly CGIA NEWSFLASH about the organization's newsworthy items with appropriate links to relevant content. CGIA will provide for up to seven individuals of the sustaining members' organization to be full members of CGIA. Be sure to remember to budget for sustaining membership in CGIA ($200). Details on all membership categories are available here.

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Metadata Updates are Important to Us

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.

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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