Call to Order – 10:04am

Attendees
Ex-Officio

MSDIS – Thomas Vought – p
OGI/NSGIC – David Nykodym – p
USGS – David Nail – pp

State Members

DNR – Zackary Becker – p
MDA – Jacqueline Walters
MDC – Tim Bixler – p
MOARNG – Kaleb Bauer – p
MoDOT – Colin Duewell – p

Cooperating Members

Allstate Consultants – Katilin Belk
BCFPD – Ryan Rhee – p
Boone County – Matt Smith
City of Columbia – Calvin Patterson – p
City of Jefferson – Buster Schrage – p
Cole County – Melissa Johnson – pp
Mid-MO RPC – Jennifer Bowden – p
NG911 – Shawn Penman – p
MU Extension/CARES – Chris Barnett – p
US ACE St. Louis – Jen Backer – p
Northwest Missouri State U – Ming-Chih Hung – p
GISCI – Tony Spicci – p
Surdex – Jack King
USDA/NRCS – Katie Philbrick – p
Washington University – Mollie Webb – p

Other Attendees

Casey DunnGossin
Nathan Mattox
Rick Staudinger
Joe Eckman
Kayla Flamm
Dan R
Brad Arshat

Approval of Minutes – Motion made and seconded to approve minutes from the October meeting. Motion passes unanimously.

Administration

OGI Report – David N. will be taking over for Tracy. MOU with MSDIS is coming along. Most of the time lately has been spent making the transition after Tracy’s retirement.

MSDIS – February
Updated Data
2024 6” Resolution Southern Missouri Imagery
MSDIS has deployed the newest 6” resolution county mosaics to The Missouri Map to make them available for download. Unlike when we deployed the county mosaics for the Northern Missouri flight, we did not create a whole new layer for the new data. Instead, we have renamed the existing map layer to reflect that we now have statewide coverage at 6” resolution.
The Missouri Map
Related to the above news and in expectation of the retirement of older AGOL applications, we have redesigned The Missouri Map in Experience Builder. While we are still tinkering with the update, the new and improved Missouri Map retains all the functions of its predecessor. Please update any of your links and/or bookmarks accordingly.
St Louis Imagery Consortium 2022 Imagery
With many thanks to ESRI’s Arthur Crawford, we have received the 2022 St Louis Imagery Consortium aerials and have deployed them as an image service. We will make these tiles available for download as time allows.
MSDIS General News
A New Image Server
The new image server has remained stable throughout the testing period. Now that the county mosaics have been deployed, we have resumed our work preparing a complete statewide imagery mosaic of the 6” imagery. At present, all individual GeoTiff files have been imported to a statewide mosaic and the first stage of pre-deployment prep work is currently chugging along.
AWS Open Data
I am pleased to report that the 6” resolution aerial imagery has been accepted by AWS for inclusion in the Open Data Sponsorship program. We will begin taking the necessary steps to take advantage of this opportunity.
NSGIC 2025 Midyear Meeting
What a neat time! MSDIS was absolutely delighted to attend the NSGIC 2025 Midyear Meeting in late February. While we didn’t attend the entire meeting (due largely to our own misunderstanding of the schedule), it was a terrific meeting during which we learned a tremendous amount from several states and federal agencies that we don’t normally get to interact with. As always, it was also great to see old friends and familiar faces from the MAGIC Clearinghouse Summit. We will be meeting with Ken Nelson and Mark Yacucci later this week to discuss how MSDIS can be a more active participant in the organization.
MSDIS/OGI Funding MOA
The funding discussion between MSDIS and the Office of Geospatial Information continues. MSDIS has submitted a potential list of official clearinghouse responsibilities (based largely on a similar list shared with us by our friend at the Kansas clearinghouse) and awaits further instructions.
GEOG 1800
Once again, I am teaching GEOG 1800 during the Spring semester and would like to invite any interested GIS professionals to join us for an in-class presentation. The class is scheduled for MWF 11:00-11:50 in Stewart Hall. You can take up as much, or as little, time as you would like. You don’t even have to join us in-person. The classroom is fully equipped to handle Zoom meetings, so you can give a presentation from the comfort of your own office. Unlike previous years, I will not be scheduling these talks only for the end of the semester. If you are willing to volunteer your time to come talk to my students about what you do with GIS, you are welcome to drop in at any point on the academic calendar. If you’re interested in joining us, please email me directly at voughtth@missouri.edu
Donate Directly to MSDIS
While many of you heard this at last month’s MGISAC meeting, I would like to extend a huge thanks to Aaron Addison for his generation donation to the MSDIS Excellence Fund.
As a reminder, if you or your company would like to help support end-of-year awards for my undergraduate interns, the MSDIS Excellence Fund, is open to the public and able to accept donations. As MSDIS’ place in the world continues to rapidly expand and my attention is pulled in several different directions, my cadre of students are being asked to do more and more complex work.
MSDIS Downtime
No downtime was reported during February 2025.

Treasurer’s Report – $3,800 in travel to NSGIC. $155.88 for the website. $73.46 in food. Plus various fees. $50,797.04 ending balance. $24,000 in conference income so far. We are behind past conferences at this time.

Membership Report – 34 members. 1 vacancies. 18 quorum. OA Planning vacant. Lucious has been added for SEMA.

By-Laws Report – NR

Presentation – Casey DunnGossin, NE GIS Coordinator
Nebraska is involved in MAGIC and NSGIC. Formed in 1991. Have a lot of statutes and a charter. NITC is parent commission with appointed members. 50% meetings can be virtual but must also be in person. They have different paths to membership. Don’t recommend multiple ways to gain membership. They have a statewide Tech Plan. This plan outlines the next 2-year focus and incorporates State government standards, GIS data, Nebraska Plane Coordinate system. Governor appoints CODE agencies. CODE agencies have to abide by standards. Non-CODE do not. 4 developers and managers keep up state map. Question about state Lidar. NE hasn’t purchased Lidar. USGS and NRCS has done it. How to get everyone on SQL Server? Was widely used before GIS so it stuck.

Data Development – Waiting to hear back on some Lidar locations. Overview of 3DHP QC map. Goal was to be done 25-26. May have to push timeline out. Moving into National Wetlands Inventory. Getting several people at the meetings. Reach out if you want to be involved.

NG911 – Data being uploaded to portal. 9 counties have met standard.

Legislative – 204 out of committee. Several bills under review.

Conference – Conference numbers are down. Need to get registered if you haven’t already. Please submit abstracts. Award nominations are closed.

Education – There’s an educator workshop at the conference. Spread the word to teachers in your area.

Outreach – Keeping website updated. Data Development page been the focus so far. Thinking about expansions. Youtube Lunch ‘n Learns, workshops, organizational outreach. Customer analysis. Letters of support for our federal partner programs. Survey getting ready to go out. Data and EMA needs/Local survey.

Liaison Reports

NSGIC – Midyear conference over. Asked about Lidar. Many states leveraging Department of Revenue through tax use and real estate. A lot of good networking and navigating current political climate. Katilin presented on Tuesday. Tom was at data development table. Katilin did Data preservation.
MAGIC – NR

Open Discussion – Need candidates for chair elect. May meeting need moved. Motion made and seconded to move the May meeting to May 15th and be virtual only. Motion passed unanimously.
NSGIC liaison replacement is needed since Tracy’s retirement. Katilin is nominated to the position. Discussion regarding private industry involvement and moving away from OA as our representative. We’ve had non-state reps in the past. State employee might get 1 conference covered by state and MGISAC covers cost of going to the other. Katelin’s work has been assisting with her going currently. Motion made to make Katilin our NSGIC representative. Motion passed.
Question regarding who can be chair-elect? Any member of the council can be in an elected position.
Adjourned – 11:57am