Meeting Minutes

New Jersey Geospatial Forum Meeting

December 02, 2005

Welcome & Opening Comments

Reading of Open Public Meeting Act

Election results were given for Executive Committee:

Federal Government – Roger Barlow

NJ Land Surveyor – Richard Carlson, Jr.

Regional Authority/MPO – Joel Falk (tie with Mark Gatti who conceded)

Executive Committee Reports were made:

  1. Roger Barlow – Federal Government – Committee Report due out soon.
  2. Andy Rowan (for Larry Thornton) – State – Roundtable of CIOs is developing. Plan for 2007 Orthoimagery is being developed.
  3. Jim Girvan – County – Developing county roundtable.
  4. Rob Sparkes – Municipal – Municipalities are receiving more support. Passaic Co. is completing parcel data.
  5. Lyna Wiggins – NJUniv., Colleges, K-12 – Please suggest education topics for new task force.
  6. Mark Gatti – Regional Author./MPO – DVRPC orthoimagery is in the QA/QC phase. Linear referencing on NJDOT Straight-line Diagram Geodatabase is available.
  7. Rich Carlson – NJ Surveyors –Geodetic is starting up a new CORS Task Force.
  8. Richard Rehmann – Private Sector –Congratulations to Lyna Wiggins on URISA award. Stressed: balance, sharing, networking and information dissemination.

Task Force Reports were given:

  1. Data Sharing/Security – Doug Schleifer – Work is completed and final report will be prepared
  2. Elevation – Suzy Hess – Inventory still ongoing. Spring DEM being prepared for Burlington and Camden, 2’ CI.
  3. Geodetic – Rich Carlson - The geodetic inventory and web application headed at NJDOT is stalled.
  4. Partnerships/Information Coordination – Jim Girvan – new chair will be Dave Kunz and Vice Chair will be Janel Bisacquino.
  5. Parcels – Dawn Hunter – Application of Parcel inventory continues.
  6. Public Safety – Tom Rafferty – State Attorney General is rolling out EPINET.
  7. Standards/Metadata – John Bocchino – Developing some EPINET information.
  8. Transportation – Lyna Wiggins for Glenn Newman –Preparing report for 1st quarter 2006.

Open Discussion

Announcements:

  1. Northern NJ User Group Mtg. and MAC URISA Fall Mtg.
  2. CORS Network Summary is on NJGIN