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GISMO has been functioning, since 1990, as the New York Metropolitan Area's largest geographic information systems (GIS) users' group, with over 700 members from city, state and federal agencies, non-profit organizations and the private sector. GISMO is also a forum for sharing geocoded data and data processing techniques, software training, news from GIS publications, meetings, vendors, etc. Significant networking has developed and is encouraged.

GISMO meetings are held bi-monthly at the Fund for the City of New York, 121 Sixth Avenue, Sixth Floor. Our meetings begin at noon as informal lunch sessions. Formal meetings come to order at 12:30. Come for as long as you can. (Sandwiches and drinks are provided by the Fund for the City of New York.) Feel free to bring copies of GIS-related items of interest for distribution to members.

Read our How to Join page to find out how you can participate in GISMO activities.

UPCOMING MEETINGS / ADDITIONAL DATES TO SAVE

Following is a list of upcoming meetings of interest to GIS professionals. For further details, click on the provided links or visit the GISMO Calendar.

Future GISMO meeting dates:
Sept 10, 2008
Nov 12, 2008
Jan 14, 2009

2008 New York State GIS Conference – Oct 6 and 7 at Holiday Inn / Syracuse-Liverpool NY

GISMO PROGRAM NOTES

Complete notes on the following past GISMO programs can be found on the Files | Program Notes section of the GISMONYC Yahoo! Group. At this time, you must be a member of GISMO to access the complete Notes.

07/19/06
Michele Liss and Rudy Lopez from the NYC Dept. of City Planning discussed the most recent update to the LION files.

05/17/06
Wendy Brawer, founding director of Green Maps, presented Green Maps of NYC & the World. With locally-led projects in 47 countries, Green Map System has a tremendous diversity of maps, mapmaking technologies and methodologies, impacts and spin-off projects. This overview emphasized the movement's Decade 2 Initiatives, along with its first 11 years of local-global eco-cultural mapmaking (as seen at GreenMap.org and GreenAppleMap.org).

03/15/06
John "JB" Borst of NYS Cyber Security & Critical Infrastructure Coordination gave an overview of the NYS GIS Coordination Program and it's major initiatives (e.g. digital orthoimagery program which is flying NYC this spring, ALIS road centerline file, etc).

01/25/06
Stephen J. McDevitt gave a presentation on the US Army Corps of Engineers GIS Planning Response Team (PRT). It focused on the who, what where, when and why of the team with samples of the maps, created over the past few years, with a a look at Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

11/14/05
Scott Mastellon of Bowne Management Systems discussed two projects: WebGIS project for Dow Jones and Recent GIS upgrades for the US Army's 77th Readiness Command.

09/21/05
Michael Crino of Baker Engineering gave a presentation on the National Flood Insurance Program NFIP) and FEMA Flood Map Modernization, with a focus on NFIP Program Objectives, Technical aspects and methods of Mapping, Insurance and Regulations.

07/20/05
Chris Holmes and Dave Blasby gave a presentation on Open Source GIS

05/25/05
Lemuel Morrison of Mercator Land Surveying, llc
presented "Surveying: the process and the relation to GIS"

03/18/05
Stephen McDevitt's presentation on GIS and Disaster Recovery was postponed to a later date. We used this meeting to network and discuss various topics in GIS.

01/18/05
Susan Fowler, FAST Consulting, presented "Lies and Confusion: How to Make Sure People Don't Understand Your Maps"

11/15/04
Antonio Lopez (MTA and GITA NY/NJ) organized a panel discussion on "GIS in New Jersey"

09/15/04
Marsha Kaunitz, Colin Reilly and Mario Gouveat of DOITT presented "NYC's Citywide GIS: A New Direction."

07/15/04
Discussion on the future of GIS/GISMO/NYC/NYS with member presentations.

05/11/04
Professor Michael Schill of the NYU Furman (Real Estate) Center discussed the NY Times 2/6 Exposure of their new Web site www.nychanis.com.

03/31/04
Jonathan Martin, Geographer, U. S. Census NY Regional Office presented "Improvements in TIGER Spatial Accuracy"

02/06/04
Al Leidner gave a presentation on the Future of GIS in NYC. A powerpoint presentation is available on the GISMONYC site.

11/13/03
Michael Crino and Kevin McCabe of Baker Engineering gave a presentation on The DEP Sewer Mapping Project.

09/17/03
Ben Discoe, of The Open Planning Project presented "The Virtual Terrain Project and Its Application to New York Geodata." Their goal is to enable more people to become involved in city planning. (vterrain.org) Ben builds open source 3d visualization software such as VTBuilder, Bextractor, and Enviro-3Drenderer which are available to new users. Some practical planning applications have been effected in Hangzhou, China. The barriers to such developments are technology, knowledge, access, and cost. The Virtual Terrain project tries to lower these barriers.

07/17/03
Steve Romalewski (NYPIRG-CMAP), Johan Herrlin (ESRI NYC) and Lenny Librizzi (Council on the Environment of NYC) presented on the OASIS Tree Mapping Project, one of many useful coverages available at www.OASIS.net.

05/14/03
Dmitri Konon, NYC EDC, and Stephen Famularo, Ocean and Coastal Consultants, presented the detailed waterfront map they developed and the Map Objects LT application they created to provide a custom user interface for accessing EDC data.

03/19/03
Gary Ostroff, of CommunityCartography, demonstrated several new stand-alone spatial database applications. Databases for local community boards and GIS animations of environmental data were be highlighted.

01/16/03
Benson Chiles and associates from NSpace Labs demonstrated their new application for automating the production of static maps (ADAM) and an interactive mapping application (Flash Map) for accessing local and national data. The second presentation was given by archeologist Joel Grossman and George Davis, who demonstrated how they are using GIS in their historic preservation work on a New Jersey canal.

11/13/02
Annette Derochers, with the Town of Southampton Division of GIS, spoke to GISMO about an Integrated GIS approach used in the Town of Southampton, LI.
 

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GISMO salutes the many GIS emergency service volunteers, who have given freely of their time and support in response to the World Trade Center tragedy. Read about GISMO's involvement in the recovery effort.