Call to Order – 10:03am

Attendees

Ex-Officio Members
MSDIS – Thomas Vought
OA-ITSD/OGI & NSGIC Liaison – David Nykodym

State Members
MDA – Jacque Walters
DNR – Zackary Becker
MDC – Tim Bixler
MOARNG Kaleb Bauer
MoDOT – Colin Duewell

Cooperating Members
All State Consultants – Katilin Belk
BCFPD – Ryan Rhee
City of Columbia – Calvin Patterson
City of Jefferson – Buster Schrage
Cole County – Melissa Johnson
GISCI – Tony Spicci
Mid-Mo RPC – Jennifer Bowden
MO 911 Board – Shawn Penman
MU Extension/CARES – Chris Barnett
Northwest Missouri State – Ming-Chih Hung
Sanborn – Brad Arshat
Southeast Mo State U – Indi Braden
Surdex – Steve Kasten
US ACE St. Louis – Jennifer Backer
Washington University – Mollie Webb
Wilson & Co. – Derek Smith
City of Branson – Curtis Copeland

Other Attendees
Tara Vansell
Dustin Goodwin
Rick Staudinger

Administration

OGI Report- Almost have MOU within MSDIS. spent last week working on storm response. That went well.

MSDIS – March 2025

Updated Data

6” Resolution Statewide Mosaic
The mosaic has been created and published as a dynamic service, but the tile cache is still under construction. While generating the tile cache is always a lengthy process (this one has taken weeks, for example), I am pleased to report that the largest layer (accounting for almost 2 TB of new data) has been completed. My hope is that this indicates the process will be done soon.

MoDOT Quarterly Update
MSDIS has received the latest quarterly update from MoDOT, which now includes the Functional Class layer. These data are currently being prepared for deployment.

MSDIS General News

New Image Server
Deployment of the new image server remains tied to the completion of the 6” statewide mosaic service.

AWS Open Data
I have started taking steps to move our AWS data migration forward. The first order of business is the creation of a YAML-formatted metadata document that will eventually be uploaded via GitHub. Which means the second order of business will be for me to finally learn how to use GitHub. Many of the other initial steps are either already completed (such as creating examples of the data in-use) or in various stages of completion (such as an explanation of our data organization).

MSDIS/OGI Funding MOA
The funding discussion between MSDIS and the Office of Geospatial Information continues. I believe the current draft of the agreement is now in the hands of OGI’s legal team.

GEOG 1800
I’d like to thank everyone who volunteered their time to speak with my GEOG 1800 class. This semester, we were joined by Robby Howe, Dan Rose, Katilin Belk, Tony Spicci, and Matt Smith. As with past years, I cannot emphasize how important it is for students to hear directly from geospatial professionals.

Donate Directly to MSDIS

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 March 2025.

Current Tasking and Utilization

Tom
6” resolution statewide imagery service preparation Separate 6” resolution north and south imagery services

GEOG 1800 (semester ends early May)
MOGIS Conference prep (Metadata workshop, Educator workshop, MSDIS Update, and SensD presentation)
MSDIS/OGI contract negotiations
AWS data migration
Cassville R-IV school district map

Brennan
Missouri Accommodations and Food Services Story Map

Rachel
MoDOT Quarterly Update preparation and deployment

Treasurer report- Getting money from conference registrations.3280. 98.40 cc fees. 56601.64 total.

Members – no change

By laws – No Report

Committee Reports

Data dev – canceled last week’s monthly call. Going to be sending survey out to RPC and others to find out what is valuable about the council soon. to make sure that the data development committee members have been updated properly on website.

911- Grant program closed. Still getting updated data for the data portal. People can continue to submit data however long it takes. Portals purposes to validate and to provision core services. Need data into it before you switch to in NG9-11. People with grants have a deadline due to the grants deadline.

Legislative-Draft Letter has been sent out to submit to our representative for Senate Bill 204 support.

Conference – In the last moments of conference planning. Last call for registration is out. We’ve had a large uptick in registrations in the last couple weeks which is good. We have rejigged the rooms and a few other things and now it’s looking like we should be more thoroughly in the black budget-wise. Looking forward to seeing everyone next month.

Education – Mostly conference related. mostly trying to get students to present and focusing on the education workshop. About a dozen in the workshop and should be insightful about how to support them. 2 have a large reach with Washington u and gateway global. Not sure if timing has made much impact. More feet on the pavement direct contact. 9 students going to conference on scholarship.

Marketing and Outreach- a council timeline has been put together to eventually go on the website. Includes past chairs. Meeting time change for may 15th zoom only. Will be doing elections.

Liaison Reports

NSGIC- It’s got an inventory of size mensors. Tom, Zach, David Nail, Tim Bixler. GMA behind on getting out. Was supposed to be out tomorrow. Moved to Friday 18 tentative. Western state caucus Tuesday. Good tribal lands talk and green energy without land disturbances. Mo doesn’t recognize any tribal lands though we do have some. Monthly leadership brief on Monday.

MAGIC – No Report

USGS – Christy Ann Archeletta, giving session at conference on Wednesday called Flow Networks and the 3D Worls. Mitch Bergerson is the new David Nail.

NRCS – No Report

Round table – Craig best is retiring after 41 years of service. No replacement at this time. Still waiting to see how a lot of the Federal unrest shakes out. Craig was asked what his favorite memory in GIS was over the last 40 years. Building the county-based data for the nation and zip code layer. He was also asked what he was looking forward to in retirement. He’s ready to work outdoors more.

WashU will have some researchers and campus operations demoing their drone and discussing their outputs. So, if you’re in the St. Louis area swing by tomorrow at 10am.

We need someone for chair elect. Elections will be held next meeting in May.

Next meeting has been moved to May 15th and is fully virtual due to the State holiday that is on our normal MGISAC meeting day.

Adjourned 11:00am.