Maine GIS Users Group Meeting

Black Bear Inn, Orono, Maine

May 6, 2005

 

7:30 to 8:30      Registration

 

8:30 to 8:40      Welcome – Dan Walters, MEGUG Chairman

8:40 to 9:00      Student Scholarship Award – Dr. Sari Hou, MEGUG Education Coordinator

                        Growth Area Mapping

Angela Stokes, Unity College

 

9:00 to 10:00    Session 1

Maine State Government Collaborative Effort For Maintaining GIS Hydrography Data

David Kirouac, Maine Office of GIS

 

                        Building a GIS for New Portland: Process, Issues, and Partnerships

`                                   Ernest Forgione, Former Chairman of the Planning Board, New Portland          

                       

10:00 to 10:30    Break

 

10:30 to 12:00    Session 2

Exponare: An integrated suite of applications that provide the gateway to an organization’s corporate data, spatial and nonspatial

Will Mitchell, Mitchell Geographics, Inc.

 

GIS and Preplanning for First Responders

Vicki Schmidt, Maine Fire Training & Education

 

Update on the GeoArchives

James Henderson, State Archives

 

12:00 to 1:00    Lunch

 

1:00 to 2:00      Session 3

                        GIS Use at Baxter State

Jensen Bissell, Baxter State Park

 

Publishing maps to the Web using MapInfo Discovery

Louis Morin, University of Maine

 

2:00 to 2:30      Break

 

2:30 to 3:30      Session 4

Ask Geographic Questions: Does Public Transportation Meet the Needs of Bangor City’s Eelderly and Members of Low-income Households?

Margaret Shaw Chernosky, Bangor High School

 

MEGIS Projects and Data Services

Dan Walters, Maine Office of GIS