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OCTOBER 6 • MONDAYB Break K Breakout Session E Exhibitor Track L Lunch M Meeting O Opening/Closing SessionP Pre-Conference Workshop R Registration S Social T Student V Survey CEU

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8:00am – 9:00am R RegistrationRegistration

8:30am – 12:00pm P The Proper Care and Feeding of Geospatial Metadata Workshop Instructor: Ryan E. Bowe, GISPDo you feel you are overrun with metadata requests? Does dealing with metadata make you want to "gopostal"? With preparation, the care and feeding of metadata maintenance will no longer constitute time-killingdrudgery.Several tips and tricks for taming metadata will be presented. After reviewing the different options for geospatialmetadata, each section of the Federal Geographic Data Committee's Content Standard for Digital GeospatialMetadata will be discussd in detail. By the end of the workshop, participants should be comfortable enough withthe CSDGM to take provided sample files and create their own template.Ultimately, by taking a few small steps to making metadata meaningful and manageable, it will also go fromsavage to subdued.ObjectivesThoroughly define metadata and geospatial metadataList the various geospatial metadata writing options (briefly show ISO metadata, but the focus will be on FGDCCSDGM metadata)Explain the FGDC CSDGM sectionsBy the end of the courses, the attendees will be very close to having their own template as well as a strategy formaintaining metadataLevelThis will be an introductory level workshop. Basics, though, are minimal so the material will quickly jump into anintermediate level.EquipmentAttendees are invited to bring their own computers, but they are not required.

8:30am – 5:00pm P Business Intelligence and Data Integration for GIS Professionals Workshop Instructor: Carl Anderson, GISPThe URISA Certified workshop covers the general topics of Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Integration (DI)and ways to add a spatial component to BI and DI systems. It will give GIS professionals the knowledge toidentify and leverage opportunities to enhance decision support through interaction with existingBusiness Intelligence is the ability of organizations to collect, maintain, and organize data. BI technologiesprovide historical, current and predictive view of business operations. The goal of business intelligencedeployments is to support better business decision-making, something that all organizations, especially oneswith an enterprise GIS, or ones working towards full enterprise implementation, can benefit from.Data integration involves combining data residing in difference sources and providing users with a unified view ofthese datas. GIS is a core user of data from multiple sources. Learn key ways to integrate data from multiplesources in order to enhance your GIS functionality and leverage the power of external (to GIS) data sources.

8:30am – 5:00pm P HTML5 and CSS for GIS Web Developers Workshop Instructor: Eric PimplerThis course will give you a first look at some of the exciting new features being promised with Hiper Text MarkupLanguage version 5 (HTML5) and Cascading Style Sheets version 3 (CSS 3). It will discuss how these mightaffect web developers in general and GIS web developers in particular. This course explains:What is HTML5?What can and how should I be using now?How will it affect my HTML4-based web applications?



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Can you believe the hype?Can you take advantage of some of these new features now without alienating your users with older browsers?This course provides a guided tour of the main features including semantic markup, the new audio/video tagsand what will be deprecated. It takes an in-depth look at the various APIs such as the Canvas API for drawingdirectly in the browser (no plugin required) and the Geolocation API for location awareness. Participants arerequired to bring their own laptop.

8:30am – 5:00pm P OSM (OpenStreetMap) Workshop Instructor: Randal HaleThis workshop will introduce participants to teh greater OSM community as well as the local Athens OSMmapping group, ATH-OSM (pronounced "Ath"-"awesome!"). If you are new to OSM, we would like to invite youto join this workshop to get familiar with mapping techniques and software that are considered unique to OSM. Itwill be interactive, and weather permitting, we will be outside so please wear comfortable clothes and shoes. Also consider bringing your smartphone or mobile device of choice for surveying data (collecting). Laptops will beuseful for arm chair collection (heads-up digitizing), so you are welcome to bring one if you have one. Anymapping done during this workshop will contribute to and be greatly appreciated by ATH-OSM.This workshop is rated for general audiences and is suitable for professionals, both private and academic, aswell as students.

10:00am – 10:30am B Morning BreakMorning Break

12:00pm – 1:00pm L LunchLunch

12:30pm – 1:00pm R RegistrationRegistration

1:00pm – 5:00pm P Introduction to ArcGIS OnlineArcGIS Online is a website that is created and maintained by Esri. It is an online warehouse of maps, data,applications, and tools which allows Esri, Esri partners, and the GIS community to publish and store their ownGIS on the web.In this course you are introduced to ArcGIS Online. You will learn how to search for existing maps, accessbasemaps, create maps, access online tasks, share content, share maps, and use the community mapsprogram.

2:45pm – 3:15pm B Afternoon BreakAfternoon Break


9:00am – 10:00am O Opening SessionOpening Session


10:30am – 12:00pm K Breakout Session Speakers: Sherri Schreiner, Matthew Swarts, Kayla Barnowsky10:30am-11:00am"Enhancing your GIS analysis with LIDAR": Kayla Barnowsky & Sherri Schreiner



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What can you do with LIDAR data? This is a question that is asked by many in the GIS industry. LIDAR data canbe used in various ways, adding a different kind of element to your GIS workflow. In this presentation, we willdiscuss what LIDAR is and how it can be useful. Sherri Schreiner from the City of Alpharetta, will also discusshow the city manages their LIDAR and how they derive value from their LIDAR data sets. The overall aim is toprovide GIS users, who have access to LIDAR, with ideas that can allow them to unlock hidden value in theseoften underused data sets.

11:00am-11:30am"Florida Keys Sea Level Rise Resiliency Study": Jimmy NolanA team of investigators form the Carl Vinson Institute of Government have been working with Monroe County Fl.To come up with ways to improve the county’s Community Rating System score. This has a direct effect on theamount of subsidy property owners receive from the government to help pay for their flood insurance. The countyis considering acquiring mobile LIDAR in the areas that are visible from the street that has an accuracy of 0.96inches. They currently have LIDAR that was captured by airplane based sensors that has an accuracy of 5.1inches. The plan is to then use the higher accuracy as a point of reference to interpolate a higher accuracyreading in the areas that cannot be captured by the mobile LIDAR. This data will then be used to model stormsurge should a storm hit today as well as storm surge after a six inch rise in sea level.

11:30am-12:00pm "High Quality Low Cost Localized Monthly Aerial Mapping": Matthew SwartsThe performance of low-cost entry-level model multi-rotors, such as quadcopters and hexacopters, is sufficientfor high quality localized aerial mapping of at least 3 inch resolution. At the Georgia Institute of Technology weuse such technology to produce monthly localized aerial maps of our campus facilities for monitoring andplanning. In this presentation we will compare many existing products on the market and show how our selectionmatches our particular needs for producing campus scale aerial imagery. We will also outline our processes forplanning flight paths, capturing aerial photography, creating point clouds, geo-referencing aerial maps, anddetecting facility changes on a monthly basis. This presentation is targeted toward those with a need for mappingrelatively small areas (<2 square miles) on a frequent basis (monthly, quarterly) with high resolution (1 pixel = 3inches) on a budget ($4,000-10,000 onetime cost). Through providing this information, we hope to encourage theproduction of more spatial datasets to facilitate GIS research at the urban scale.

10:30am – 12:00pm K Breakout Session Speakers: Craig Robinson, Sara Mayberry10:30am-11:15am"JavaScript and GIS – Integrating Systems and People To Achieve Success": Colin Gowens and Qazi Iqbal

Keeping a Utility GIS alive and useful requires more than editing points, lines, and polygons: Integrating multiplesystems, workflows, and people are essential. This presentation will provide a detailed explanation of the robustJavaScript viewers that are used by Fulton Water Resources to publish the GIS warehouse of utility data,integrating field staff work flows for maintaining accurate data, and work order CMMS reporting. We will alsounveil a new JavaScript template that is used to create “plug-and-play” project GIS websites that can be set upquickly by staff with limited or no programming experience. This JavaScript “website management” tool is agame changer in being able to publish project related GIS services and integrated data to key staff andstakeholders.

11:15am-12:00pm"The City of Marietta Harnesses Configuration for Web GIS Application Development": Craig Robinson & SaraMayberryWeb GIS application development is fraught with many pitfalls that can leave GIS professionals strugglingthrough technology shifts and custom development challenges. Building meaningful and powerful web-basedapplications for end users can be expensive, challenging, and increasingly complex. Configurable software nowprovides the ability to build sophisticated, well-integrated and flexible applications, without the risk and expenseof custom development. In this presentation, Marietta will explore their use of Geocortex and the ArcGIS platformto rapidly configure and deploy several web GIS and mobile applications for city departments and the public. Thiswill include a live demonstration of web-based GIS applications.



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10:30am – 12:00pm E Exhibitor Track Speakers: Kenn Anderson, Dan Bellissemo, Paul Burrows, Jeff Simmons, Jesse Glasglow, Vijay

Alagarraj, Subhro Guhathakurta, Rama Sivakumar, Tony Giarrusso, Gordon Zhang, Matthew Swarts,

Chengbo Ai10:30am-11:00am - Cyclomedia Technology, Inc11:00am-11:30am - Quantum Spatial11:30am-12:00pm - Georgia Institute of Technology

10:30am – 12:00pm M GAURISA Subchapter Meeting Speakers: Sara Yurman, GISPSubchapters are an opportunity to spread the connections and creativity of Georgia URISA all over the state. Let' get together at the Conference. We can identify opportunities, float new ideas and meet new folks.

10:30am – 12:00pm V Survey CEU Track Speakers: Lonnie Sears"Have we defined Surveying-Geomatics Education for the 21st Century and how much Education does aSurveyor need?" - Roger Purcell, PE, PLS (1 hour)

Roger will examine the recent efforts to quantify and describe the desired surveying-geomatics education for the21st Century. These efforts are found in recent works written for the National Society of Professional Surveyors(NSPS) which cover the surveying body of knowledge in Legal Applications, Land Stewardship, Positioning, GIS,Imaging and Quality Assurance. Additionally, Roger will examine surveying-geomatics education needs from the perspectives of otherstakeholders including; licensing professionals, professional societies, accreditation agencies, and license exampreparers. Finally, a discussion will be presented that examines the direction that surveying-geomatics educationmay take in the future. "GPS on Benchmarks campaign - Improve your area's Geoid." - Lonnie Sears, PLS (30 minutes)

12:00pm – 1:30pm L LunchLunch Presentation"Mapping Georgia's Solar Assets Illustrates Benefits of Renewable Energy" by Shan AoraGeorgiaEnergyData.org is Southface's response to the dearth of information regarding Georgia's energyinfrastructure, specifically solar assets. It is a GIS tool designed with policymakers and renewable energyadvocates in mind. Therefore, the development of GeorgiaEnergyData.org was different from an approach thatmay have been taken for a technical user. The result is that the application's Solar Map shows solar installationsexist across Georgia and that solar is Georgia's homegrown energy source. The Solar Map shows that solarcompanies exist throughout the state, a majority of solar installations were installed by Georgia-basedcompanies, and that Georgia-made solar cells also generate electricity in the state. Other maps and chartsavailable on GeorgiaEnergyData.org provide policymakers and advocates with data to easily analyze Georgia'senergy consumption.

Shan Arora - Policy Programs ManagerShan coordinates policy activities across Southface. He is the Project Manager for www.GeorgiaEnergyData.org,Southface's initiative to deliver unique maps, charts, and tables that allow users to easily understand Georgia'senergy consumption, electricity generation, and solar assets. Shan also manages Southface's Clean EnergyIndustry Census project (www.cleanenergyindustry.org) to quantify the economic benefits of Georgia's cleanenergy sector. He is working with partners in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia to build upon theCensus and create a four-state Clean Energy Roadmap that will provide guidance on how to grow the region'sclean energy industry.

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Speakers: Arthur Robinson, Natalie Culpepper, Ryan Barrett, Hunter Key1:30pm-2:00pm"Geospatial Technology and Planning Efforts at the Atlanta Regional Commission": Ryan BarrettGeospatial technology is of increasing importance to planning and policy decisions. Hear an overview of howgeospatial technology is related to planning efforts at the Atlanta Regional Commission. We’ll discuss ESRIsoftware deployment, other geospatial platforms and processes including estimates & forecasts, WebEnabled Analysis & Visualization Environment (WEAVE), and open data. ARC is the regional planning andintergovernmental coordination agency for the 10-county area including Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb,Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry and Rockdale counties, plus the City of Atlanta. For over 65 years,ARC and its predecessor agencies have helped to focus the region's leadership, attention and resources on keyissues of regional consequence. ARC is dedicated to unifying the region's collective resources to prepare themetropolitan area for a prosperous future. It does so through professional planning initiatives, the provision ofobjective information and the involvement of the community in collaborative partnerships.

2:00pm-2:30pm"Regional GIS & Capacity Development": Hunter KeyThe Coastal Regional Commission has embarked on a repositioned strategic vision that leverages the areas GISprofessionals, hardware and software to develop a collabotative GIS network. The presentation will discuss theelements that have set the course for this vision and the pathways that have been outlined to achieve a sharedGIS. The repositioned strategic vision is concluding its first year with assessments, strengths, weaknesses, andchallanges concluding the presentation.

2:30pm-3:00pm "Planning and Developing a Location Strategy": Natalie Culpepper & Arthur RobinsonOrganizations are driven by location. There are common principles and patterns communities have adopted todemonstrate the importance of some of the aspects of data; Accessible, Complete, Authoritative and Timely.Location provides a common context through which we can compare different domains of data in order tounderstand complex relationships. Government agencies gather this data as part of their mission and dailyoperations – but no one cares as much about their neighborhood as the people who live there. By making thisdata available to the public, local governments have a unique opportunity to leverage the local expertise of theircustomers to understand, analyze, and act on the issues that affect communities. By planning and developing alocation strategy for proving data that is discoverable in which organizations and individuals can use to makedecisions, new capabilities in the industry aim to remove the technology question of open data publishing. Dataowners can leverage their existing infrastructure and web services without having to migrate and update data.This makes initiatives far more sustainable and supports the mission that organizations have t…

1:30pm – 3:00pm K Breakout Session Speakers: Joe Lambrix, Chengbo Ai1:30pm-2:00pm"GIS and GPS Technology: Transforming Local Government": Grace Jansen & Allegra YeleyColumbia County covers an area of 308 square miles and has over 135,000 residents. Strong residential andcommercial development has made it one of the fastest growing counties in Georgia. In order to maintain adatabase of geospatial data, the county government has utilized GPS technology to collect data since 1998. In 2010, an upgrade in GPS technology heralded dramatic improvements in data collection, accuracy, reviewand analysis. The GIS Department installed a Trimble NetR9 GNSS reference station with real-time correctionand purchased Trimble GeoXH 6000 units running Trimble Floodlight technology, Trimble GPScorrect, and EsriArcPad 10. In the office, Trimble Positions enables easy import of field data and accuracy review. Columbia County has successfully integrated GPS and GIS data into numerous applications, includingCityworks, Maps Online, and Earthmine. Furthermore, geospatial data has fostered interdepartmentalcollaboration with utilities, traffic engineering, and emergency response. The GIS Department can immediatelyGPS new county assets and upload them into the database, ensuring that the government and the citizens arewell-informed and spatially aware.

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Chengbo AiPavement distress and coring data is critical information to support an informed pavement rehabilitation anddesign in the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). In the past, the data was collected using paper-pencil method. This process was error prone and the data quality was not consistent. In addition, the locationinformation was inaccurate and data sharing was difficult. To solve these issues, the Georgia Tech researchteam developed a comprehensive IT-based solution that consists of a) a GPS-based handheld for field datacollection, b) a Wi-Fi camera for capturing field pictures that are automatically integrated with handheld-collecteddata, c) a seamless data transfer, management, and uploading procedure, and d) a GIS-based web platform thatintegrates pavement investigation data with other data sources such as existing GDOT map services and onlinemap services, enables other offices and contractor to share their pavement coring data, and provides functionsto extract the historical pavement COPACES ratings for a programmed project and estimate the remainingservice life using various interactive tools. The GPS-based handheld application has been successfullyimplemented and used for field data collection since 2008. The first version of PEA web application has beendeployed to GDOT’s product testing server.

2:30pm-3:00pmProgression towards Perfection: Changing the Way the Alabama DOT Collects and Maintains HPMS Data: JoeLambrixAs the Alabama DOT has moved towards utilizing GIS (ESRI products) over the past decade and a half, theyhave fou…

1:30pm – 3:00pm K Breakout Session Speakers: Randal Hale, Lynn Biggs, James Mooney1:30pm-2:00pm"Powerful Web Mapping Applications for Small Government": James MooneyThe ability to build and maintain a traditional geographic information system can be prohibitively expensive forsome municipalities and small counties. By creating a hosted web based system that can be shared by multipleorganizations, we have enabled any group to access the power of GIS. The RightSpot web mapping solution is adata hosting and web mapping service designed to distribute the cost of hardware, software, and custom toolcreation across the entire user base. We use industry standard back end software from Oracle, ESRI, andGeocortex to quickly build web mapping applications with a large number of standard tools for map productionand analysis. Back end architecture, custom tool development and lessons learned will be discussed.

2:00pm-2:30pm"Commercial and Open Source GIS Software: Combine the Two": Randy HaleGIS has two different sides of software these days: commercial and open source. In many cases it comes downto a choice - and the choice is one side over another. For the last 20 or so years the choice was obvious - forsupport and for a successful program it had to be commercial. GIS has always had deep roots in Open Sourceand that software is now becoming robust and very friendly to use. The two sides can be combined into a hybridgeographic information system. NRGS has had the chance to take freely available open source software andcombine it with commercial software to complete work for clients in a budget friendly manner in three instances(possibly 4 by the time this talk occurs). This talk covers the why and some of the how of combining the twosides.

2:30pm-3:00pm "Whats in it For Me? Making a Web Map Assessible to the Sight Impaired": Lynn Biggs A user of the Cobb County's "What’s in it for Me?" web map can either enter a Cobb county address or use amouse click on the screen to generate a listing of transportation and parks projects within a 5 mile buffer of thataddress or click. A Cobb Transit System Advisory Board Member prompted Cobb Department of Transportationto make the information provided in the What’s in it for Me web map accessible to the sight impaired. How canwe make the information received from a web map accessible to someone who cannot see? This presenationwill go over that process.

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Speakers: Kevin Stewart, Rama Sivakumar, Ross Brewer, GISP1:30pm-2:15pm"Measuring Foot Traffic With Real Time Analytics: Ross Brewer & Kevin StewartThe City of Marietta launched a pilot project to experience the benefits of analyzing how people flow through theCity’s Glover Park and Farmers Market via GISi’s GeoMetri Enterprise. The pilot provided the City with 3-months’worth of analytics to provide more insight into how the downtown business district is utilized, how foot trafficmoves through the space, what events attract unique versus repeat visitors, etc. Our abstract will be presentedby City staff discussing the implementation of this pilot program and where they see this technology evolving atthe City.

2:15pm-3:00pm "State of Geo Enabled Business Analytics - Observations from a GIS Perspective": Rama SivakumarTraditional business intelligence and analytics providers are taking a keen interest in developing new solutionsthat harness the power of GIS for applications in location based intelligence in their respective domains. LocationIntelligence is the capacity to organize and understand complex phenomena through the use of geographicalrelationships inherent in all information. With the advent of big data analysis, many business and technologyorganizations are investing in developing GIS based analytics. With growing buzz on Big Data and recognition ofits benefits coupled with availability of greater compute power, there is greater interest in the fusion of GIS withBig Data Analytics. This presentation attempts to explore and highlight current state of business analytics usingGIS.

1:30pm – 3:00pm V Survey CEU Track Speakers: Peter Ruel"Carlson SurvCE advanced features for GIS data collection" - Peter Ruel (45 minutes) "Positional Tolerance in Georgia rules" - Mark White, PLS (45 mins)


3:30pm – 5:00pm K Breakout Session Speakers: John Cox, Andrew Harrison, GISP, Ryan Davis3:30pm-4:15pm"Measuring the Effects of the Atlanta BeltLine on Residential Property Values": Ryan DavisThe Atlanta BeltLine, a large-scale urban redevelopment plan currently underway in Georgia’s capital, promisesto redefine the city’s landscape in the coming decades. Based along a 22-mile ring of defunct railroad trackssurrounding the city’s core, the BeltLine—when completed in 2030—will connect 45 neighborhoods with pavedtrails, open green space, public art and light rail integrated with Atlanta’s public transportation network. Of themany benefits touted by BeltLine proponents, is the notion that property values will inevitably rise as a directresult of the economic stimulus provided by long-term development. Consequently the perceived elevation inproperty values ultimately leads to concerns of home affordability for traditionally low-income neighborhoodsalong the corridor.

This paper will measure the effects of the BeltLine’s development on nearby residential real estate valuesthrough the use of geographically weighted regression analysis and data provided by a multiple listing service.GWR measures local coefficients of multiple independent variables contributing to a single dependent variable,single family dwelling sales price, by assigning more weight to those data sample points that exist closer to theestimate point. Because the BeltLine neighborhoods consist of diverse socioeconomic demographics andvarying types of housing, GWR is chosen as a method for its ability to create explanatory models that moreaccurately depict the spatial variation in heterogeneous housing markets than more traditional hedonic pricingapproaches that incorporate average global coefficient values across a wide study area. The findings willdemonstrate the different levels of impact that Atlanta BeltLine development has upon surroundingneighborhoods.

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Please join us for our presentation about GIS-based Damage Assessments. In this presentation you will learnabout preparation and steps taken after disasters in Wakulla County FL, Georgetown County SC, Volusia CountyFL and Maui HI. You will also hear real world examples of how EM Directors, GIS Managers and Assessorsacross the country have been using GIS and Assessor’s appraisal (CAMA) data to be able to quickly andaccurately perform damage assessments in their communities. After a disaster, the need to rapidly calculate andreport damages to homes, businesses & public assets is critical. This session will also show you how via aGIS portal the EM Directors were able to monitor the teams’ progress in real-time while tracking the progressfrom the Emergency Operations Center.

3:30pm – 5:00pm K Breakout Session Speakers: Tony Giarrusso, Helen Peng3:30pm-4:15pm"Efficient Visualizations Tool for the California Transportation Planning Model by Applying Arc CityEngine": HelenPeng3D visualization has been increasingly used in the planning process as an important tool to convey the plan anddesign information to decision makers and residents (DÖLLNER et al. 2006). The California transportation modelintegrates transportation, economic, demographic, and land use information to predict the land use change andexchange of goods and services across space and time. To demonstrate the visualization of typical land usechanges, the project developed three scenarios, downtown urban area, suburban residential area, and ruralarea. The traditional 3D creation process was usually time-consuming with labor intense. Arc CityEngine provides thefast creation and visualization of 3D cities through its unique 3D programming language. The programmingmethod can create detailed 3D models in a large area for a short time. As well, it has the advantage ofaccumulating the geometry parameters, such as total floor area in a zone. For our purpose, it is useful to create3D buildings in large zones and meet the target floor space quantities from the transportation model. The projecthas applied three software packages in model creation process, as ArcGIS, CityEngine and Google Earth.Python, the scripting language acts as a bridge interacting between software. The 3D visualization project describes the transportation model outcome and the future land use change. Itaddress more effectively important land use change and urban applications, as well helps to communicate withdecision makers and citizens to know that will actually take place in the region. Arc CityEngine is suitable for the3D project and provides a good tool to visualize the transportation model outcome.

4:15pm-5:00pm"Assessing Urban Tree Cover in the City of Atlanta - A Baseline Canopy Study": Tony GiarrussoResearchers at the Center for GIS and Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development at the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology recently completed the first urban tree canopy assessement for the City of Atlanta. Using2008 Quickbird satellite imagery acquired from Digital Globe inc. as input for traditional imageryclassificationtechniques, the research team successfully created a high resolution, three class landcover datasetfor the city. Tree and other land cover statistics were reported city-wide and across a number of smallergeographic areas, such as nieghborhoods, zoning districts, stream buffers, and watersheds. In addition to thedescriptive statistics provided to the city, the project team created a city-wide potential planting index to be usedas a supplement to current tree planting efforts. A interactive arcgisonline map showing project results iscurrently available for public consumption.

Project findings were generally positive with an City-wide estimate of 47.9% tree cover, which, when comparedto 18 other US cities that have rec…

3:30pm – 5:00pm K Breakout Session Speakers: Lynn Biggs, Amber Keller3:30pm-4:15pm"How Do you Eat an Elephant? Mapping Easements in Cobb County": Lynn BiggsA county wide easement GIS layer was identified as a priority layer by the county manager to be developedusing in house resources. There are many types of easements being collected. My department - Transportationis contributing drainage easements to this effort- knowing the location of drainage easements is important for



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DOT maintenance activities. The Cobb GIS Technical Advisory team collaborated with the GIS Core Group todevelop the easement database design. The Cobb GIS Core Group manages this database. This presentationwill outline the process we use to map drainage easements in this enterprise database.

4:15pm-5:00pmCounty Commissioner Districts: Amber Keller Presenting and focusing on the state's first ever County Commissioner Districts Shapefile. I will give a briefoverview on what County Commissioners are and their role. I put together the state's first ever shapefile of allcounty commissioner districts.

How: I contacted Regional Commissions and individual counties for their commissioner districts shapefiles andour organization purchased the remaining from the Legislative Reapportionment Office for $500. I created aunique ID for each district which is the County FIPS code, some zeros, and the district number. The unique ID forthese districts has never existed before. I created a few Counties districts from the redistricting bills. The bills listthe tracts and and blocks that are part of the district. I used that list the build a Query for selecting the specificGEOIDs. There was the issue of counties whose commissioners are all at large. I would select the county thenexport it and change the DistrictID field and merge it back to the shapefile so that I could merge the sameshapefile on top of each other. I pulled my organizations data base of Commissioners to excel then transposedthe columns to create a mail merge email to all county clerks to verify and correct any changes to thecommissioners. I then assigned each commissioner (816 of them) to their district with their unique ID so I couldjoin their information to the shapefile.

3:30pm – 5:00pm K Breakout Session3:30pm-4:15pm"A Modern Vision of Enterprise GIS": Keith CookeGIS has evolved into a fully-integrated location platform providing spatial insight that supports entireorganizations. But, technology trends are changing fast. In order for today's enterprise GIS to stay current,valuable, sustainable, relevant and effective, it is necessary to learn some new techniques and embrace somenew philosophies. This session will highlight some of these such as:

- How to Highlight and Articulate the Value of GIS to Managers/Executives - The Power of Spatial Analysis - Understanding & Implementing ArcGIS as a Location Platform- Prioritizing the implementation of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) solutions.

4:15pm-5:00pm"Opportunities and Challenges for Spatial Analysis of New “Big Data” Sources from the U.S. Census Bureau":William DrummondThis presentation will discuss three of the newer spatial “Big Data” sources available from the U.S . CensusBureau: (1) American Community Survey microdata, (2) Quarterly Workforce Indicators, and (3) LongitudinalEmployer-Household Dynamics Origin-Destination Employment Statistics. These datasets provide a basis formuch more detailed spatial and temporal analysis of socioeconomic data than had been previously beenpublically available.

The American Community Survey (ACS) is a replacement for data previously collected on the Census long form.In addition to traditional Census tables, the ACS releases microdata (actual answers to individual ACSquestions) each year, but only at the Public Use Micro-Sample (PUMS) level, Census-defined areas of at least100,000 in population.Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) datasets are released four times a year at the county level. Information isavailable down to the 4-digit NAICS level of detail for employment-related variables including firm size, workerage, and worker education levels.

Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data is availableannually at the Census block level. It consist of aggregate worker information by place of residence, by place ofwork, and by block-to-block commuting flows.

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since they can contain information for dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of variables with individual recordsfor each geographic area and each time period (year or quarter). Second, privacy and confidentially concernsdictate that some data must be suppressed, aggregated to larger areas, or injected with random noise. Third,current GIS software is not well-suited to processing large amounts of socioeconomic data, and may need to besupplemented with more robust database management software. Fourth, the geographies used to aggregate thedata can change, making it difficult to map and analyze changes over time.…

3:30pm – 5:00pm V Survey CEU Track"GIS Survey Grade for Smart Cities" - Michael Frecks (45 minutes) "Effectively Communicating BIM & Spatial Data to non-technical Stakeholders" - Dave Young (45 minutes)

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8:30am – 10:00am K Breakout Session Speakers: Tony Giarrusso8:30am-9:15amGeorgia's Coastal and Marine Planner (GCAMP) - An Interactive Mapping Tool for Coastal and Marine SpatialPlanning: Sonny EmmertCoastal and marine spatial planning (CMSP) requires that information on the physical environment, ecosystems,and human use patterns be integrated to plan for and evaluate cumulative impacts of these activities relative tothe best uses of specific marine real estate. Unfortunately, the spatial datasets and tools needed to performthese tasks are often unavailable or difficult to identify and locate. Although entities at the national level areworking toward a standardization of national GIS data, currently, no standardized list of CMSP data and nosingle repository from which to obtain this information for Georgia exist. Nor are there Georgia-specific geospatialsites and tools dedicated to CMSP in Georgia. To remedy this situation, the Coastal Resources Division of theGeorgia Department of Natural Resources and researchers at GT have partnered, using funding obtained fromthe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to create an interactive, web-based GIS portal (theGeorgia Coastal and Marine Planner [GCAMP]) that will facilitate the dissemination of Georgia-specificgeospatial information and tools to interested users, including government entities and citizens. At present,GCAMP is deployed using the Javascript API for ArcGIS. However, due to advances in cloud computingtechnology, specifically ArcGIS online capabilities and its use across many relevant federal agency sites (BOEMMarine Cadastre), GCAMP will migrate to the ArcGIS online platform over the next several months. Currently,year three of the GCAMP project is ending with a focus on completing the data portal and GIS tools. In additionto maintaining an improving the portal, the remaining two years of the project will be spent on documentation anddissemination of information to relevant stakeholders. This presentation will cover the following topics• Project Background• GCAMP Data (Data Availability and Sources)• GCAMP’s Current Status (Interactive Map and Tools Demo)

9:15am-10:00am Georgia Wetlands Toolkit: Maximizing Use of NWI and NWI+ Data for Georgia: Tony Giarrusso National Wetland Inventory (NWI) GIS data is often used by planners, scientists, and state and local regulatorsfor a variety of purposes. Unfortunately for many data users, the NWI database attribute structure and contentare difficult to interpret and utilize effectively, often driving users to limit their use of the data to spatial analysis.



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Tabular queries and functions are difficult unless you are well versed in advanced database query techniquesand the Cowardin classification system, which is the basis for the NWI hierarchical classification system. Furthercomplicating the wetland data situation is the newly created wetland classification system, NWIPlus, whichclassifies wetlands in a different manner than the traditional Cowardin clas…

8:30am – 10:00am K Breakout Session Speakers: Tripp Corbin, GISP, Carol Crutchfield8:30am-9:00am"Georgia Land History - How were our original parcels created": Tripp CorbinEver wonder where land lots come from or why they are different sizes in different parts of the State? Have youbeen confused because some Counties have land lots while others don't or why part of a County does and partdoesn't? This presentation will explore the history of how land was parceled out in Georgia leading to the currentboundaries we now have.

9:00am-9:30am"Generating Building Footprints from Building Sketches": Jimmy NolanITOS has developed processes to convert tabular data that is used to generate building sketches into buildingfootprints and place these footprints inside the parcels that they belong to. Unlike building outlines that aredeveloped from imagery, these are true building footprints, not rooflines. These sketches are measured on theground and are divided into separate components like porches, garages heated living area, Etc.

9:30am-10:00am "Seeing, Past, Present, and Future: an Innovative Approach to Facilities Management": Carol Crutchfield Managing school facilities and planning in a rapidly growing community was a challenge for the Beaufort CountySchool District (BCSD). Being able to see how classroom and non-standard instructional space was being usedwas critical to decision making for future school needs. District staff turned to a GIS solution for documentingspace usage, managing construction documents and site plans, and analyzing data to make decisions thatimpact efficient use of space and provide opportunities for cost savings.BCSD wanted to use GIS to document the history of building construction projects, maintain a current “as built”set of plans, and manage future construction projects. We wanted to use spatial data to assist in tracking realproperty, maintaining structural assets and infrastructure, and life cycle management planning. We wanted auser friendly and efficient interface for sharing data and information from multiple locations – office, home,tablets, etc.BCSD partnered with PenBay Solutions to build a Facilities Management GIS that meets those needs. Inaddition, we found that with GIS we can examine each space in a building, see its originally designed purpose,see how it’s currently being used, and plan how it might best be used for instructional efficiency. Principals canassign staff to the space, designate its assignment by grade or function, and then “see” the result of thosechanges. Using built-in tools, principals can draw and measure to develop and store emergency evacuationplans over the current floor plans and aerial imagery that can be uploaded and overlaid back onto the GISplatform for use when needed. By creating an effective GIS tool for managing construction documents and facility site plans, the BCSD hasbenefited in unanticipated ways by more effectively managing existing systems, creating efficient workflows, andimproving decisions on the best academic use of standard and n…

8:30am – 10:00am E Exhibitor Track Exhibitors: Lonnie Sears, Carey Habalar, Peter Ruel, Tiffany Roperti, Bill Prather, Dave Young9:00am - 9:30am - eGPS Solutions9:30am - 10:00am - Repro Products, Inc

8:30am – 10:00am T Student Presentation Competition - UndergraduateBreakout Session

8:30am – 10:00am V Survey CEU Track"Terrestrial Photogrammetry" - Mark White, PLS (45 minutes)



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"Free Data Resources for Survey and GIS Projects" - Matthew Wilson, PLS (45 minutes)


10:30am – 12:00pm K Breakout Session Speakers: Tripp Corbin, GISP10:30am-11:15amA Geospatial Network and Geospatial Information Office for Georgia: Terry JacksonDuring October 2013, the Georgia Technology Authority empanelled an inter-agency Geographic InformationOffice (GIO) Task Force for the purpose of identifying the need for and resources to sustainably establish suchan entity for the State of Georgia. In May 2014 the Georgia Regional Commissions provided the solution byestablishing a Georgia Regional Commission Geospatial Network with an associated Geospatial InformationOffice that coordinates and partners with local governments, state government, and other partners. This wasbolstered by a supporting grant from the US Economic Development Administration. A Geospatial ExecutiveCouncil, consisting of the funding partners, governs the operations of the Network. This new framework has thepotential to be transformative, particularly from a service delivery standpoint whereby RCs, in conjunction with aGIO, working with state agency and other partners, have the potential to serve a key role in the collection,aggregation, creation and standardization of geospatial data and services.

11:15am-12:00pmGIS Certification: To certify or not to certify: Tripp Corbin In this economy, GIS Professionals and practitioners are looking for ways to build their resumes to increase theirchance of getting a job or to win projects. One of the ways to do this is with certifications. But which certificationshould they get? Do they actually provide any benefit? What does it take to earn one? This presentation will tryto help answer many of those questions.

10:30am – 12:00pm K Breakout Session Speakers: James E. Fitzgerald10:30am-11:00am"Cobb County Tax Assessor’s Office: GIS Data Preparation for Conservation Use Assessment": JamesFitzgeraldProperty owners of agricultural land, timberland, and environmentally sensitive land, under official Code ofGeorgia (OCGA) Section 48-5-7.4, have the opportunity to qualify for conservation use assessment (CUVA). TheGeorgia Revenue Commissioner determines the values for ad valorem tax for CUVA properties and publishesthe rules and regulations enabling the county tax assessors to evaluate qualifying properties. According toO.C.G.A, stated in chapter 5 section 7.4.1(B), a new provision prevents property owners from qualifying entireproperties with a residence and now excludes the underlying property. The underlying property based on lot sizeand local zoning ordinances is prepared with geospatial technology. By using a combination of geospatial toolsand python scripting in ArcGIS ModelBuilder 10.1, both enable an automated process used to create anddesignate the qualifying properties in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Future CUVA projects will beperformed in a matter of minutes as opposed to hours by using python scripting and ArcGIS ModelBuilder 10.1.

Key Terms: ArcGIS 10.1, Python Scripting for Geometric Shapes, CUVA properties, O.C.G.A. Section 48-5-7.4,ArcGIS ModelBuilder 10.1,

11:00am-11:30am"Developing a Community Engagement Component to Addressing Systems": Zachary LancasterAddresses matter to many people, and the address that a person has can be a the most important identifier in apersons life. An address can define where a person lives, where they work and many other activities that makeup a modern life. The idea though of an address changes as you move throughout the world. Concepts like placenames, street names and how an address is represented are often deeply cultural. Each part of theworld's addressing patterns are unique. In many areas where functional addressing may have beenabsent, people will have created whole new ways of describing locations and how to navigate to them. It is formany of these reasons that it is critically important to engage with a community when considering either creatingor updating an addressing system.



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If we look at projects to create new addressing systems when none had previously existed, or where an older,dysfunctional system was in place, we can see both successes and failures. Places like Korea (replacing anolder system completely) and Abu Dhabi (where a new addressing system is being implemented) are meetingwith both technical and cultural challenges. These two cases, Korea and Abu Dhabi, are not unique. Manysystems have encountered a lack of acceptance due to the authorities's reluctance to work with thecommunity to understand existing way finding and cultural practices in the process of creating or altering anaddressing system. This lack of engagement can create problems in many ares of the addressing system frompractical navigation to the …

10:30am – 12:00pm K Breakout Session Speakers: Xavier Davis10:30am-11:00am"Land Application of BioSolids a Case Study": David MckeeCase study example of how a Small local government utilized GIS to leverage environmental decisions on aproposal of land application of Bio-Solids. Staff utilized ESRI software to apply Georgia environmental ProtectionDivision (GA EPD) regulation and applicable state laws to determine the feasibility and applicability of a proposalthat was presented to the GA EPD for approval. Local LiDAR, Flood, Parcel, zoning, and survey data wasutilized to gain an analysis that was used by the local board of commissioners to respond to the GA EPD with anunfavorable response and ultimately having the proposal denied. The Georgia State legislators have sincereviewed the state laws and new law was presented and ultimately passed by the general assembly and sign byGovernor Deal for approval. The local case study was used as a model for the state during the legislative updateprocess.

11:00am-11:30am"Converting Pipe and Manhole Inspections into Targeted System Improvements": GIS Leads the Way: ColinGowensFulton County Water Resources uses CCTV to inspect their collection system and identify pipeline defects inPACP format. This presentation gives details about the work flows and data that Water Resources hasimplemented and the business processes that lead to system repairs. Fulton County Water Resources isaggressively working to reduce Infill and Infiltration into the system and reduction of SSO events. The pipe andmanhole inspection program is a key component of success in reducing system failures.

11:30am-12:00pm "Successfully Managing a Small Wastewater Authority GIS Program and Extra Tasks": Xavier DavisManaging a successful small wastewater authority GIS program can be very demanding in addition to managingother programs and responsibilities (i.e., IT, SCADA, other duties as assigned, etc.) that are delegated to you.

In this presentation, the audience will learn techniques to successfully manage a small wastewater authority GISprogram along with performing supplemental tasks. Useful tips on time and project management will bepresented. In addition, participants will learn how to work effectively and communicate with supervisorymanagement and other staff members to successfully complete assigned job tasks or projects.

Wearing many hats within a small wastewater authority can be difficult and stressful at times, but a GIS or similarprofessional (new or experienced) can learn different project management techniques by attending thispresentation.

10:30am – 12:00pm T Student Presentation Competition - GraduateBreakout Session

10:30am – 12:00pm V Survey CEU Track"Terrestrial, Mobile Lidar, and Aerial Lidar Collection" - Tate Jones, PLS (45 minutes) "Terrestrial, Mobile Lidar, and Aerial Lidar Collection" - (45 minutes)



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12:00pm – 1:30pm L Lunch"The Georgia GIS Coordinating Committee Activity Updates" by Jimmy Nolan

The GISCC has played an important role in framework development and coordination of efforts across all levelsof government and the private sector. This activity has helped facilitate unique partnerships and efficienciesthroughout the state. Mr. Nolan will discuss the history of the committee and their activities to date. He will alsodiscuss The GISCC's ongoing endeavors and plans for the future.

1:30pm – 3:00pm K Breakout Session Speakers: Sara Yurman, GISP1:30pm-2:15pm"The FGDC Address Standard in the Real World": Sara YurmanAddresses can be the heart of an effective GIS program. Unfortunately, addresses are some of the most difficultdata to collect and maintain, due to wide variations in syntax, abbreviations and punctuation. Placenames,subaddresses, street name variations and just plain confusion about where something is located create a cloudof complication.

The FGDC Address Standard has been used to organize master address repositories at both the local and statelevels. Originally conceived as a transfer standard, the Address Standard is constructed to enable localgovernments throughout the U.S. and its territories to record and manage addresses with all their localintelligence intact. Addresses with PLSS prefixes, addresses requiring multiple city names, addresses thatreference an "urbanization" rather than a street, all variety of U.S. addresses are included in itsterminology. The completeness of its treatment of addresses has led to its role in organizing databases. As theonly address standard that incorporates address data quality control, it has been helpful in cleaning andmaintaining the data in them.

This paper will review the FGDC Address Standard, its use at the state and local levels, and its place in thecurrent national conversation about addresses.

2:15pm-3:00pm"Standardized Quality Control, Creating a Sustainable Quality Control Environment" Zachary Lancaster &Charles ShapiroQuality control lays the foundation for trust in your address database. Address data are prone to small errors andmistakes that can aggregate over time and when taken together can reduce the usability of your address data.This fact underlies the importance of doing proper and exhaustive quality control on address data. The FGDCstandard provides a basis for this QC process. This set of processes is complex and applying it to each data setseems to require that each data set be treated uniquely. This assumption can lead to the development ofindividualized methods for testing each element which is both time consuming and lead to inadvertently checkingthe wrong pieces of data.

To correct this the development of a standardized set of QA/QC checks. By understanding what needs to bechecked each time it is possible to easily create and maintain tools for quickly and correctly assessing andreporting on the quality of data. This presentation will describe the QA/QC process and discuss the creation oftransparent workflows that can be used to create better data that accounts for all elements.

1:30pm – 3:00pm K Breakout Session Speakers: Randal Hale1:30pm-2:15pm"OpenStreetMap": Randy HaleOpenStreetMap is known as the "wikipedia of maps". It's crowdsourced, free, and strives to be the most relevantmap you can use. The only problem is it's not really a map. OpenStreetMap creates and distributes freegeographic data of the world. It's really one huge database that many companies such as Foursquare, Craigslist,and Telanav have started using. It's also become very popular among humanitarian organizations for work inHaiti, Indonesia and most recently Africa (Ebola Outbreak). It can also be very beneficial to your localorganization, Geospatial Professionals, and non profits.



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2:15pm-3:00pmYour Community and the Living Atlas of the World: Mark StewartArcGIS includes a free living atlas of the world with beautiful and authoritative maps on hundreds of topicsrelating to people, earth and life. This session will explore this vast content landscape and provide examples ofhow anyone can use these resources throughout their organization. It will also explain how organizations(whether they are Esri customers or not) can help build the living atlas by contributing their authoritative datathrough the free Community Maps program.

1:30pm – 3:00pm M GISCC October MeetingGISCC October Monthly Meeting

1:30pm – 3:00pm V Survey CEU Track"UAVs for Land Surveying and Mapping - what features will I need?" - Chad Turner (30 minutes) "sUAV uses in Land Surveying and GIS Data Collection" - Tate Jones, PLS (30 minutes)

1:30pm – 3:30pm T Mapping Your Way Into a GIS Career - Panel for Students/Young Professionals Moderators: Wendy Peloquin, GISP Speakers: Natalie Culpepper, Jeff SimmonsThis session will introduce young professionals and students to the Geospatial Industry. Several career pathswill be highlighted, including the skills required for entry-level and mid-level positions. Panelists will also giveadvice on creating effective resumes and portfolios, as well as proper etiquette and tips for a successfulinterview. Young Professionals and students will also be introduced to several professional organizations anddifferent certifications for GIS professionals. Resources for locating job listings will also be provided.Topics include:Introduction to the Geospatial IndustrySkills required for entry and mid-level positions within these industriesBuilding a resume and portfolioEtiquette and tips for a successful interviewProfessional Organizations and CertificationsWhere to find GIS job listings


3:30pm – 4:00pm O Closing Session & AwardsClosing Session

4:00pm – 4:30pm M GAURISA Open Board MeetingGAURISA Open Board Meeting

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