March 2002 GIS Users Group Schedule

Greetings Troops!!!!

This is our second regular notice for the March 2002 meeting of the:

Please note the supplemental reading items w/ URLs listed after each talk!!! They can be found in the review article section of the PVTS.NET web site

Northern California Wine Country GIS Users Group Meeting(TM)

Upcoming NCWC GIS Users Group(TM) meeting: March 20 from 12 PM to 2 PM

Topic: Survey Methods and GPS Data Collection for GIS Mapping --- REVISITED
 

Speakers:
Michael Brooks
California Land Survey Act -- Review of Issues
Michael Brooks & Associates, Yountville, CA

Michael E. Ford
Commentary: GPS Data Collection -- A surveyor's perspective

Michael R. Hogan
Projecting and Reprojecting Data - Tips and Traps

Hogan-Ford Land Surveying -- Kenwood, CA

Walter V. Moody -- GIS Manager
GIS Products form a Survey Office -- Bridging the Gap

Ray Carlson & Associates -- Santa Rosa, CA

Recommended Reading:
Testing the Spatial Accuracy of GIS Data
by Rj Zimmer, LS
http://www.pvts.net/profsurvmag_jan02a.pdf


NEXT NCWC GIS Users Group(TM) Meeting Date: Wednesday, May 15th 2002
Topic: ArcView 3.x vs. ArcView 8.x as a Toolset
Comparisons and Contrasts -- Should I Upgrade and Why?

Jennifer DiMartino
VESTRA Resources, Redding, CA

Note: A technical representative from ESRI has been invited. We are waiting for confirmation.

Recommended Reading:
ArcGIS Version 8.x Whitepaper
by Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
http://www.pvts.net/arcgis_whitepaper.pdf

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The NCWC GIS Users Group(TM) meetings will be held at the usual location, the Mondavi Creekside Facility.

Directions:
Mondavi Creekside Offices:
Take Hwy 29 north past Yountville. In Oakville turn left or
west on Walnut Drive. This drive is private and doesn't always have a
road sign. You will know you at the right spot when you see the
Oakville Pump sign on the left and the Oakville grocery on the right
side. Take Walnut drive to the west and go past a small white bridge
and past a red, old-fashioned phone booth. Shortly past the phone booth
turn right on an unmarked partly paved road. The building immediately
on your right will be Creekside.

Bring a brown bag lunch. The usual format is a brief introduction of group
members, a 1 hour presentation or discussion and then informal conversation
and networking

Hope to see you there,

Reg Parks
 

Parks Vineyard & Trellising Systems
Napa, CA
office:    (707) 257-8041
cell:    (707) 246-6959
home:    (707) 226-1554 (eves)

The Vineyard Development and Technology Group
Napa, CA
Kenwood, CA
phone: (707) 529-6911