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Portland Area GIS Users Group

The Portland Area GIS Users Group (PAGIS) provides a forum for GIS professionals, students, and others interested in GIS to meet, share ideas, view demonstrations, and participate in technical discussions.  We are a network of people in the GIS community of the greater Portland area and believe that we can all learn from each other and improve our job performance.  The User Group provides a means and opportunity for users to get to know one another and exchange information and expertise. Anyone with an interest in GIS can attend meetings -- or present.  

** If you would like to submit an item to the PAGIS newsletter, please email: Greg Newkirk

 

Portland Area GIS User Group News - August 2009

What: January 2010 Meeting

When: Friday, January 22, 2010, from 10:00 to 11:30 AM

Where:   David Evans and Associates
             2100 SW River Pkwy
             Portland, OR 97201
             (503) 223-6663
             [ Map and Directions ]

Topic:

             Best Practices for Publishing Geoprocessing Tools: Tips and Tricks

Presenters:

             Eric Sack, GISP

             Technology Associates

Technology Associates developed a sophisticated geoprocessing application using Python and ModelBuilder that is published to ArcGIS Server, to perform geospatial analysis on over 100 data layers that ask questions such as:

 

  • What environmental layers intersects the project area within specified buffer distances?
  • How far features are from work sites?
  • What are the temporary or permanent impacts in acres for each site?
  • What is the elevation and centroid coordinates (in 8 different systems) for each worksite?
  • Reports on frequency of occurrence for RT&E species and closest occurrence.

An Environmental Screening Report is generated from geoprocessing results using an XML Reader to render results.  As part of the geoprocessing task, Technology Associates developed a separate model used for refreshing the FGDB schema.  This minimizes application down-time during data refreshes, cuts hand-on pre-processing time and primes the GIS data for optimized geoprocessing speed.

 
 
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