Call to order- 10:03am

Attendees

Ex-Officio Members
MSDIS – Thomas Vought – p
OA ITSD – David Nykodym – p

State Members
MDA – Jacque Walters – p
DNR – Zackary Becker – p
MDC – Tim Bixler – p
MOARNG – Kaleb Bauer – p
MoDOT – Sarah Rowell – p

Cooperating Agencies
All State Consultants – Katilin Belk – p
BCFPD – Ryan Rhee – p
Boone County – Matt Smith – p
City of Columbia – Calvin Patterson – p
City of Jefferson – Buster Schrage – p
Cole County – Melissa Johnson – p
Mid-MO RPC – Jennifer Bowden – p
MU Extension/CARES – Chris Barnett – p
Northwest Missouri State – Jesse Lane – p
Sanborn – Brad Arshat – p
SEMO RPC – Sarah Brown – pp
Surdex – Steve Kasten – p
US ACE St. Louis – Jennifer Backer – p
Washington University – Mollie Webb – p
Wilson & Co – Derek Smith – p
City of Branson – Curtis Copeland – p

Other Attendees
Wiley Howell
Rich Perkins
Dustin Goodwin
Jack King
Erin Stevens
Joe Eckmann
Noah Butler
Rob Ryan
Stephen Frankel
Justin Foss
Kayla Flamm
Rick Staudinger

Approval of Minutes- motion made and seconded to approve Minutes from September and October meetings. Motion passes unanimously.

Administration

OGI Report-gis day event is Monday 1-4 in the Truman building on the 4th floor.

MSDIS Report- October 2025. Did some interviews. Getting closer to hiring hopefully.

New Data
Thanks to Tim Bixler, I have taken possession of the LiDAR tiles associated with the downloads that we deployed last month. Creation and deployment of a new image service is pending and will likely not take place until late November at the earliest.

Updated Data
MSDIS did not receive any data updates during October 2025.

MSDIS General News
I was honored to speak at the University of Missouri Data Science & Analytics Seminar Series about the future of MSDIS and its place in the wider landscape. It really was a lot of fun to be able to discuss how MSDIS plans to fit into both the professional and research landscapes, and the students in attendance asked some terrific questions. I’d like to offer a big thanks to Dr Hatef Dastour for the invitation and for setting everything up.

MSDIS/OGI Funding MOA
The new laptops and monitors ordered last month have been delivered and set up in what will be the office for the new MSDIS hires.
In addition to physical hardware, I have also requested the construction of four new virtual servers. Two will replace the existing MSDIS Imagery and MSDIS State Imagery servers, one will be rolled out as a MSDIS LiDAR server, and the fourth will be used as a development server.

The MSDIS hiring committee has been hard at work reviewing resumes and crafting interview questions. The first interviews are scheduled to take place during the week of 03 November 2025.

State Training
As mentioned last month, MSDIS will host its first state GIS training exercise on 10 November 2025. The exercise is scheduled to run from 8AM to Noon, and will address navigating ArcGIS Pro, working with spatial data, and the workflow for creating a basic map. This course is intended for GIS beginners. We anticipate that more advanced courses will be offered in future months, once we have a better feel for our audience.

Reference Maps
Our statewide reference map program is close to its first real benchmark. Once we finalize the text for data sources, we will begin a limited production run for a variety of different Senate and House districts to request feedback.
MSDIS Downtime
No downtime was reported in October 2025.
How You Can Support MSDIS
Donate Directly to MSDIS

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. Even a small donation to the Excellence Fund helps provide Team MSDIS with some well-earned bagels and coffee.
Send of Letter of Support to Mizzou

Let’s face it, Mizzou is a big place and MSDIS doesn’t have a lot of time to advertise. If you think we’re doing a good job, or even just a solidly okay job, fire off an email to the President’s Office or to the Dean of Arts and Sciences.
Share Your Data With MSDIS

MSDIS doesn’t just deal in 6” resolution imagery. If your town/city/county/regional planning committee/state agency/whatever has some cool data that can be shared with the public, send it over! If I get enough local data, I can either add a new section to the current Hub site or spin up a whole new clearinghouse just for smaller datasets.
Write Your Metadata

All the cool kids write their metadata.
Support the NG911 Data Collection

NG911 data will likely be the next great challenge for MSDIS, but it is also an incredibly important leap forward for Missouri’s GIS data catalog. If you can, please submit your data to the program.
Support Aerial Photography and LiDAR Collections

I don’t love the idea of a whole new aerial photography collection while I’m still finishing up work on the last one, but it is impossible to overstate the value of current, high-resolution imagery and LiDAR data. If your town/city/county/regional planning committee/state agency/whatever is interested in helping support the cost of another collection, please reach out to the MGISAC.
Support MGISAC

You came to the conference, so you might as well come to the monthly meetings! MGISAC meetings are open to anyone who wants to attend and cover a range of topics including OGI activities, data development plans, GIS-related legislation, and the occasional guest speaker. If you’re interested in attending, please email MSDIS for an invite.

Treasurer’s Report-st louis meeting expenses came through. Total $36119.48.nsgic expenses will be coming in but have to be submitted after meeting per university policy.

Membership Report-No change in membership

Committee Reports

Data Development- discussion on how to quantify imagery value to help find funding and sell the need. 3dep request submitted but no response yet.

Marketing and Outreach-no update. Didn’t have a November meeting but December will meet to discuss vision moving forward. Working on presentation for next month.

NG911-Still working getting county data into the system and getting the grant money distributed.

Education-Lindenwood GIS day event is next Thursday, the 20th. It will be on campus. There will be a showcase, some networking, a student panel and a demo. Updates have been made to the education story map, so go check it out. The Missouri Story Map contest is coming up.

Legislation-Tim Taylor is willing to help us with bill filing again this round. With the current political climate there’s likely to be a decrease in what gets through so we didn’t change any language this time.

Liaison Reports

NSGIC-a lot of webinars coming up. Geowomens round table next week. November 19th esri is doing an AI assistant webinar. Might hear something about the Geospatial Maturity Assessment (GMA) in December but it was completely revamped this time around so things are going slower than in the past. Some of the imagery portion has been resent out.

Cooperating Agencies

USGS-no report

NRCS-no report

Open Discussion

October meeting went well. We had plenty of food and the tour was really interesting. There has been a desire to keep looking to move the meeting around to other places so we are looking for the next place to go. Discussion on whether to stick with half day or try a full day. Probably not a full day day. Need to give some time to drive but a little longer half day with possible learning opportunity or tour in the afternoon.

Registration for MAGIC is open.

Had a council leadership meeting earlier in the month and decided we have a need to sit down and write out a short strategic vision. Nothing too intensive but something that shows what we are aiming for.

It’s time to put out the RFP for a conference venue. We will be in the St Louis area this year. After the momentum from last month’s meeting I’m hoping we will get some good assistance in finding a location for the Missouri GIS Conference in 2027. I would like to get the RFP out and start receiving replying by the end of the year. Will be sending out a doodle to the planning committee to have a quick chat about what we may need to tweak in the old RFP.

Adjourned- 11:01am