Monday, November 18, 2024
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Baker Center
Room 240/242
Or Virtual Meeting
Join the OHIO geography community for GIS Day 2024, on Monday, November 18, as we celebrate and explore GIS on campus! With presenters from a variety of private, public, educational institutions, we will be showcasing how GIS is a useful tool across a variety of fields for analyzing and visualizing data, providing the context needed to make decisions, and telling meaningful stories.
What is GIS? It stands for Geographic Information Systems, and in short it is about connecting information and data to location. Applying location to data can open up new insights and can help communicate ideas to a wide audience. In more recent years spatial data and communication have exploded, and people are communicating with and using maps and spatial data more than ever.
GIS Day is an international event, usually on the third Wednesday of November, where for the last 25 years groups have come together to celebrate the ways they have used GIS and spatial data throughout the previous year, or to bring in speakers from across the spectrum to expound on new ideas in the field. Ohio University has organized a GIS Day event for 3 straight years now, and we are proud to continue this event.
Agenda
| Time | Session |
| 12:00 – 12:55 p.m. | Lunch and Networking |
| 12:55 – 1:00 p.m. | Introduction to Ohio University GIS Day |
| Jason Pyles – Space Manager, Ohio University Planning | |
| 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. | How GIS work is helping parts of Appalachia impacted by Helene |
| Mark Lecher – Esri Education Account Manager | |
| 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. | Federal Open Data GIS Collaboration: OpenStreetMap + Government |
| Derald Dudley – US Department of Transportation | |
| 2:00 – 2:15 p.m. | Break |
| 2:15 – 2:30 p.m. | Utility Data Collection for OHIO |
| Trevor Flint – GIS Manager, Ohio University Design and Construction | |
| 2:30 – 2:45 p.m. | GIS and Survey Applications of UAV and Aerial Mapping |
| Tim Ledrich | |
| 2:45 – 3:00 p.m. | Oxford Cemetery GIS Student Map |
| Robbyn Abbitt – GIS Coordinator, GISci Certificate Advisor, Assoc. Dir. Geospatial Analysis Center Miami University Department of Geography | |
| 3:00 – 3:15 p.m. | Break |
| 3:15 – 3:30 p.m. | Citizen Science with ArcGIS |
| Jen Bowman – Director of Environmental Programs, Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service | |
| 3:30 – 3:45 p.m. | Making OpenStreetMap the Authoritative Source: A Model for Government Engagement with OSM |
| Josh Carlson – GIS Developer, Kendall County GIS | |
| 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. | Introduction to the Appalachia Ohio Collaborative GIS Hub |
| Jessica Schaudt – GIS Analyst, Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service | |
| 4:00 p.m. | optional: Brainstorming Session on How OHIO Can Contribute to and Encourage GIS Internally and in the Community |
Questions? Pyles, Jason, pyles@ohio.edu
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