GIS Technology

Besides this presentation please bring your thoughts, ideas, and/or wishes for additional GIS related presentations for future meetings.

‘With more than 8,500 existing sites that need to be mapped, we had to be able to collect locations accurately and more efficiently than we could by measuring distances to property corners and triangulating well, septic and field locations’

“It’s about being able to look at the same land through many different eyes,”

The technology, global positioning systems, is hardly new. But using GPS to track workers and vehicles is catching on with a growing number of business and government employers, bent on improving productivity and customer service, and keeping tabs on labor costs.

"It’s (GPS technology) the difference between making money and not making money," said Dave Mowitz, machinery and technology editor for Successful Farming, a national farm publication based in Des Moines, Iowa.

I am excited to announce that sesides our normal "roundtable" we will be having a special presentation on how Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF) utilizes GIS.

The software enables users to easily access up to 12 different high-resolution views of any property, building, highway, or other feature in a county.

The students’ contribution means the city is better off than it was even six months ago. But Bozeman is still a long way from catching up. "When the relationship between city and MSU is strong, it is better for all of Bozeman," Winn said.

"This is not something you would do lightly," said James A. Lewis, director of technology policy for the Washington-based Center for Strategic & International Studies. "It’s clearly a big deal. You have to give them credit for being so open about what they’re going to do."

Recipients of the initial awards are tasked with creating and developing a training module that can be used by U.S. educational institutions and industry organizations to prepare workers for geospatial careers.