June 2008 New Jersey Geospatial Forum (NJGF) Meeting Summary
Yesterday, June 5, 2008, the New Jersey Geospatial Forum (NJGF) held its quarterly meeting in Trenton. Departing from tradition, the meeting was held on a Thursday afternoon, following NJDEP’s map competition that morning.
Some noteworthy announcements from Andy Rowan, Director of the New Jersey Office of GIS:
· The 2007 orthophotography project is coming along nicely, expect product availability around September.
· New NJ municipal boundaries GIS dataset was published the day before (blogged here).
· NJGIN website is redesigned. One improvement – you can bookmark individual URLs.
· Started the NJ parcel normalization project. Expected completion date – 2009.
· Began a feasibility study on adding address data to the NJDOT street centerlines.
· The NJ land use/land cover contract was let to AIS.
· New NJ municipal boundaries GIS dataset was published the day before (blogged here).
· NJGIN website is redesigned. One improvement – you can bookmark individual URLs.
· Started the NJ parcel normalization project. Expected completion date – 2009.
· Began a feasibility study on adding address data to the NJDOT street centerlines.
· The NJ land use/land cover contract was let to AIS.
My two favorite presentations were:
1. John Reiser’s njstateatlas.com – an amazing amalgam of GIS data and functionality put together from free sources (data and open source software) on John’s personal time, and
2. Gary Casabona’s topical and informative LiDAR presentation, designed and delivered with smartness and self-effacing humor normally absent from GIS events.
2. Gary Casabona’s topical and informative LiDAR presentation, designed and delivered with smartness and self-effacing humor normally absent from GIS events.
Some of the presentations were salesy-pitchy, much as the presenters tried to pretend that they weren’t.
Posted by Atanas Entchev at 6/6/2008 1:27 PM 
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Categories: news, Open Source, NJDEP, NJGIN, Opinion, New Jersey, Maps, NJ, GIS, Online Mapping, LiDAR, NJGF, Technology
Tags: news Open Source NJDEP NJGIN Opinion New Jersey Maps NJ GIS Online Mapping LiDAR NJGF Technology
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