All professionals working with GIS are welcome at meetings of the Sandhills GIS Association. The association fosters regional initiatives using GIS technology and fosters regional GIS data sharing.
The GIS Coordinator at the Fayetteville office of the Division of Community Assistance (NC Department of Commerce) manages the Sandhills Spatial Data Clearinghouse (SSPC). The coordinator supports the work of various regional organizations:
- Regional Land Use Advisory Commission and its Joint Land Use Studies
- North Carolina Sandhills Conservation Partnership
- Sustainable Sandhills and its sustainable growth initiative
- BRAC-RTF and its regional growth management plan
The Sandhills spatial database originally covered the six counties surrounding the Fort Bragg Military Reservation. Now data is being collected to cover an eleven county region.
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CLASSES Introduction to ArcGIS Intermediate ArcGIS Introduction to ArcGIS ***** 2008 TIGER Shapefiles The 2008 TIGER/Line Shapefiles are available from the Census Bureau website. They can be downloaded at: http://www2.census.gov/cgi-bin/shapefiles/national-files ***** NC GIS 09 IS COMING The Preliminary Conference Program is posted on the conference webpage at www.cgia.state.nc.us/ncgis2009. This conference is the BIG GIS conference in North Carolina and is held every two years. So block out February 19-20, 2009 for a trip to the Raleigh Convention Center. Online registration for the conference and CURISA workshops is open. Links to other upcoming conferences are on the EVENTS page. ***** NC STREETMAP State governments can now join NCStreetMap! This new tool is dedicated to the exchange of North Carolina street centerline data. It allows all data stewards and data requestors to access the same data repository to upload and download data, substantially reducing the burden on both local government and state government staff. To create an account go to www.ncstreetmap.net. Users of NCStreetMap are restricted to City, County,
Councils of Government, and Tribal government employees in North
Carolina, Federal government employees, NC MPO/RPO organization
employees, NC academic institution staff/faculty and students,
and State government employees. ***** SGISA MEETING REPORT Attendees at the August 14 meeting work in planning, utilities, IT, conservation, and emergency management. This varied experience ensured good communication of problems and solutions. James Armstrong and Donna Wright provided background on addressing and street centerline files. They explained their procedures to improve the accuracy of these files so that emergency services can find a specific address. John Correlus and Alan Sandoval demonstrated the North Carolina Economic Development Intelligence System (EDIS). EDIS provides mix and match access to data on North Carolina counties (and others around the country). The list of data available is long and covers demography, quality of life, education, workforce, and businesses (both current and opportunities). Updates covered the recent RLUAC Telecommunication Tower study and the current process to revised the criteria and data used in the Sustainable Sandhills Landscape Suitability Analysis models. Our host for the meeting was James Armstrong, Director of Planning and GIS Services for Richmond county. Thank you James and all our speakers. Updated list of active members *****
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UPDATED LIST OF DATASETS The Sandhills GIS Database contains over four hundred datasets. Many of these datasets are for local data. Data is currently available for download from the Members section. Datasets are provided as zipped shapefiles. The list of datasets, with extent and date produced, is periodically updated. Latest list of data layers for download (pdf) ***** NEW REGIONAL ACTIVITY MAPS All-American Trail -- a project of the Regional Land Use Advisory Commission (RLUAC) and the Fort Bragg Military Installation. Generalized regional zoning -- part of the suitability mapping project of the Sustainable Sandhills land use team. ***** LANDSAT SCENES The USGS plans to have all Landsat archive scenes available for selection at no charge by February 2009. In addition, newly acquired scenes meeting a cloud cover threshold of 20% or below will be processed to the standard recipe and placed on line for at least three months, after which they will remain available for selection from the archive. Full details on these changes. ***** LOCAL JOB OPENINGS For jobs in North Carolina monitor the GIS listserv
(NCGIS). *****
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