Umpqua Basin Users Group Fall Meeting - October 21, 1999 9AM

Meeting Minutes

Introduction of members and projects

The meeting began by featuring updates from area agencies on their respective digital aerial photography data.

• John Patrick of the Bureau of Land Management talked about their aerial photos. Hard copies can be obtained through the BLM office in Roseburg. The Roseburg area was flown most recently.
• Nikki Borges from the City of Roseburg presented aerial photos of the City of Roseburg. The coverage is the City's Urban Growth Boundary. Photo taken in March of 1998. Digital photo in NAD 83/91. Hard copies and digital copies can be purchased from the City of Roseburg.
• Terrie Franssen of the Douglas County Surveyors Office had aerial photos of the County. The Surveyor's Office had the southern half of the County flown over the Summer and will have the north half of the County flown by next year. The southern County prints are available for scanning.
• Ed Hall of the Forest Service talked about the digital ortho-quads of the Umpqua National Forest (Eastern Douglas County). Their DOQs are periodically updated. The new photos are at 1 meter resolution.
• Chris Wayne of UR-COG talked about their digital orthophotography of all cities except Roseburg. The flight was in September 1999, and contact prints have been delivered, but no digital images yet.

Feature Presentation: Microstation/ArcView data sharing. A presentation was given by Tony Bass and Kathy Thompson from the Douglas County Planning Office. County parcel data is created in Microstation, and this data is shared by other agencies that use ESRI's ArcView (and other GIS applications). They discussed the process and problems associated with data sharing across software platforms.

Election for New Officers--the new elected officers follow:

• President: Eric Lanning
• Secretary: Jason Lien, UR-COG
• Treasurer: Kathy Thompson, Douglas County Engineering
• Web Master: Ed Hall, USFS
• Board Representative: Tony Bass, Douglas County Planning
• Membership Development: George Day, DFPA
• Activities Planning (for the Winter UBUG meeting): Jon Phillip, RUSA; Chuck Perino, UR-COG

Jon Phillip of Roseburg Urban Sanitary Authority (RUSA) talked about their project, which includes mapping sewer infrastructure and creating a database complete with photo images and drawings.

Preview of Winter UBUG meeting (sometime in late February)

• Speaker from CH2MHill in Corvallis to talk about the RUSA project as described above.
• Product demos-possibly for ESRI's ArcView 3.2 and/or ArcInfo 8, and Geomedia applications.
• Extended preview of Spring UBUG: Greet the nice weather with some GPS field work!

The address of Oregon Urisa is http://www.teleport.com/~orurisa/ NOT www.teleport.com/~orurisa.htm

Goodby and good luck to Chris as he tackles Seattle!!