Proceediings

Conference Proceedings

Concurrent Sessions Thursday February 17, 10:45-11:30
Track 1: Making Connections: Mashups and Location-Based Services	“Where Am I? How Did I Get Here? NCSU Libraries' WolfWalk: A Location-Aware Mobile Interface to Campus History,” Jason Casden, NCSU Libraries View Presentation “To G or not to G - Exploring the Use of Google Maps API for Local Government,” Jason Sanford, Ubisense Consulting View Presentation
Track 2: Mobile Data Collection for Any Size Budget	“Collecting Spatial Data in the Field with Cybertracker,” Richard Bergl, NC Zoo View Presentation “3D Mobile Mapping,” David Henderson, Topcon Positioning Systems View Presentation
Track 3: Roads and Parcels and Building Footprints for All	“NC Statewide Built Environment Dataset: Update, Development and Future Analysis,” John Lay, NC Office of Geospatial and Technology Management View Presentation “Data Cooking 101 – How to Slice and Dice Your Data into Standards,” Pam Carver, Henderson County, and Alex Rickard, Eastern Carolina Council Presentation Not Available
Track 4: GIS Cabability Maturity Model	“URISA GIS Capability Model,” Greg Babinski, GISP, King County, WA View Presentation
Track 5: This Old House as Seen by a Mouse: A Look at Housing	“Queen Anne, a Greek Revival, & a Log House: It's Not A Joke, it's GIS ,” Andrew Edmonds, NC State Historic Preservation Office View Presentation “Tracking Home Foreclosures in Forsyth County,” Jason Clodfelter, Forsyth County View Presentation
Track 6: GIS and CAD Working Together	“Understanding the DWG Format,” Tripp Corbin, GISP, Keck & Wood, Inc. Presentation Not Available “NCDOT County Mapping Conversion - Map Production Automation,” Rob Floyd, GISP, ARCADIS View Presentation
Track 7: Serve	“GISCorps: GIS Volunteers Assisting Worldwide,” Joseph Forrest, Resource Geoservices Presentation Not Available “Working with OpenStreetMap: Results of the NCSU Campus Mapping Party,” Steven Johnson, Deloitte FAS View Presentation

Concurrent Sessions Thursday February 17, 1:30-3:00
Track 1: Coming Together in a Crisis - The Gulf Oil Spill and the Haiti Earthquake	“Disaster Management & Readiness: Creating Enterprise GIS for the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill,” Drew Stephens, The GIS Institute Presentation Not Available “Data Collaboration During Crisis: Something Old and Something New,” Kate Chapman, Fortius One Presentation Not Available
Track 2: REST-afarian Web Services	“GeoREST: Open Searchable Access to Geospatial Data,” Geoff Zeiss, Autodesk View Presentation “WhatWhereWhen-WISE,” Joshua Lieberman, Deloitte, FAS View Presentation “ArcGIS Server Open Rest API,” Kevin Armstrong, Esri View Presentation
Track 3: 'Win-When' You Freely Share Data	“Data Sharing: What Works? What Doesn’t?,” Lynda Wayne, GISP, GeoMaxim View Presentation “North Carolina Tackles Data Discovery and Access with a Revitalized NC OneMap,” Lee Mandell, GICC Chair, and Colleen Sharpe, GISP, City of Raleigh View Mandell Presentation View Sharpe Presentation
Track 4: GIS Strategy and Governance	“The GIS Strategic Planning Process,” David Holdstock, GISP, Geographic Technologies Group Presentation Not Available “Sustaining GIS Governance: Challenges & Rewards,” Jonathan Feldman, City of Asheville View Presentation “Philadelphia’s ROI Experiment in Enterprise GIS Strategic Planning,” Jim Querry, City of Philadelphia Presentation Not Available
Track 5: Keep 'Em Moving: Transportation Modeling	“GIS and Linking Multimodal Transportation - Evaluating Connectivity Projects,” Don Kostelec, Transpo Group View Presentation “Evaluating Public Transit Efficiency Using GIS and Spatial Optimization,” Eric Delmelle, UNC Charlotte View Presentation “Geographic Support for Transportation Reform,” Paul Black, GISP, Triangle J COG Presentation Not Available
Track 6: Infrastructure Planning Starts Here	“Mobile 311, Drew Fioranelli, City of Asheboro View Presentation “GIS and the Land Application of Biosolids,” Kathy Wolfe, Iredell County View Presentation “Wastewater Data Conversion to Support Hydraulic Modeling,” Rob Bailey, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities View Presentation
Track 7: Grow	“Department of Labor Geospatial Technology Competancy Model," Rodney Jackson, GISP, Central Piedmont Community College View Presentation “GISP Certification Application Process from a Reviewer's Point of View,” Shannon Mcdonald, GISP, NC Division of Waste Management View Presentation “Career Development - Prepare for 'The Places You'll Go',” Susan Pulsipher, GISP, Versar, Inc. View Presentation
Special Session: Award-Winning Graduate Student Presentations	“Spatial Analysis of Surveyed Perceptions of Safety, Crime, and Lighting,” James Waynick, Appalachian State University View Presentation “Spatial Modeling of the Risk of Mosquito-borne Disease Transmission, Chesapeake, VA,” Haley Cleckner, East Carolina University View Presentation “Building a GIS Database for the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone,” Motunrayo Akinpelu, NC Central University View Presentation

Concurrent Sessions Thursday February 17, 3:30-5:00
Track 1: Getting Social: Making Connections with GIS	“GIS and the Social Web,” Kevin Armstrong, Esri View Presentation “Local Government Use of Web GIS in North Carolina,” Jon Breece, UNC Chapel Hill View Presentation “Government 2.0: Open Data,” Tobin Bradley, Mecklenburg County View Presentation
Track 2: The Desktop App: News of My Death is Premature	“The Desktop App: News of My Death is Premature,” Jason Roberts, Duke University View Presentation “If You Can Browse This Map, Thank a Desktop,” Bill Dollins, Zekiah Technologies, Inc. View Presentation “Exploring Geospatial Data with the GeoViz Toolkit,” Frank Hardisty, Penn State University Presentation Not Available
Track 3: Best Practices: Data Done Right!	“Moving from ‘Keeping Stuff’ to Geoarchiving: Preserving NC’s Geospatial Data,” Alec Bethune, CGIA, and Kelly Eubank, NC State Archives View Presentation “Streamlining the Metadata Process Using ArcObjects Programming,” Tim Mulrooney, NC Central University View Presentation “Updating and Using the GICC Utility Standard and Data from the Last Century,” James Armstrong, Richmond County View Presentation
Track 4: GIS and Enterprise Business System Integration	“Transitioning from Formal Project Management to Agile: The NCDOT Experience,” Janet Lowe, NC DOT View Presentation “Storyboarding: The Power of an ERP System that is Spatially-Enabled,” Keri Shearer, GISP, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Stormwater Services Presentation Not Available “City of Greenville Automated Inspection System for Public Works,” Judy Johnson, GISP, City of Greenville View Presentation
Track 5: Teach Your Children Well: Modeling for Sustainable Development	“Base Model Generation Using LIDAR to Investigate Possible Impacts of Solar Regulations,” Kathleen Snyder, Durham City-County Presentation Not Available “Site Suitability Modeling for Open Space Prioritization,” Bill Shroyer, GISP, Wake County View Presentation “Multi-level Spatial Modeling of Per-Capita Land Consumption and Fragmentation of Human-Modified Landscapes,” Douglas Shoemaker, UNC Charlotte Presentation Not Available
Track 6: GIS: It Just Makes Economic Sense	“Utilizing Spatial Technology to Determine Maximum Economic Value of Brownfield Sites,” Shel Brannan, Research Triangle Institute Presentation Not Available “NC Buildings and Sites – Upgrading for Better Decisions in the Site Selection Process,” Allan Sandoval, NC Department of Commerce View Presentation “The Development of an Economic Model to Optimize CO2 Pipeline Networks: Economic Analysis of Carbon Capture Storage Potential,” Darmawan Prasodjo, Duke University Presentation Not Available
Track 7: Learn	“The GIS Certification Institute and its Value Within the Geospatial Community,” Rodney Jackson, Central Piedmont Community College View Presentation “Higher Education GIS Curriculum Choices within North Carolina,” Jeff Essic, NC State University View Presentation “Do They Get It? Assessing GIS Student Learning Outcomes,” David Carr, NC State University (also one of the graduate student award winning presentations) View Presentation
Special Session: Award-Winning Graduate Student Presentations	“WebGIS-based Interactive Visualization of Reconstructed Cognized and Functional Spaces: The Case of U.S. Migration,” Zhaoya Gong, UNC Charlotte Presentation Not Available “A Biomass Fuelshed Assessment and Optimization Model for a Hypothetical Combined Heat and Power Unit at Duke University,” Richard Crowley, Duke University Presentation Not Available “Using Spatial Analysis Technology to Assess Habitat Change on North Carolina Barrier Islands: Masonboro Island and Rachel Carson Reserve,” Matthew McCarthy, UNC Wilmington Presentation Not Available
Concurrent Sessions Friday February 18, 8:30-10:00
Track 1: Working the Problem: The Crisis Toolkit	“Open Source Computer-Aided-Dispatch – GIS at Work in Emergency Response,” Arnie Shore, Anne Arundel County, MD View Presentation “Geovisualization of Hurricanes: Experimental Eye-tracking, Biometrics, and Enhanced Storm Surge Visualization Tools,” Tom Allen, East Carolina University Presentation Not Available “An Introduction to the Sahana Software Foundation,” David Bitner, Sahana Software Foundation Presentation Not Available
Track 2: Is the Data Becoming the Platform?	“GeoSynchronization Services as a Data Sharing Platform,” Jeff Harrison, The Carbon Project View Presentation “Using the Open Source DotSpatial GIS Library to Create Tasks for the Data for Environmental Modeling (D4EM) System,” Aaron Parks, Research Triangle Institute View Presentation “Can Mobile Industry Technology Be of Interest to the GIS Community?,” Tor Björn Minde, Ericsson AB View Presentation
Track 3: 2010 Census: The Counting is Over. Now What?	“2010 Census Data Products,” Kelly Karres, US Census Bureau View Presentation Panel--Preparing for the Next Census Deirdre Bishop, US Census Bureau John Gallimore, Davie County David Nash, City of Fayetteville Jennifer Song, NC State Data Center David Wiggins, US Census Bureau Presentation Not Available
Track 4: Enterprise GIS Best Practices	“Best Practices for Enterprise GIS: Research Findings from Charlotte, NC,” Twyla McDermott, GISP, City of Charlotte View Presentation Panel--Enterprise Best Practices Greg Babinski, King County, WA Colleen Sharpe, City of Raleigh Charles Friddle, Wake County Jim Querry, City of Philadelphia Presentation Not Available
Track 8: 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough'	“The Critical Role of GIS in Communicating Climate Change,” Scott Shuford, Onslow County View Presentation “NC Sea Level Rise Risk Management Study: Potential Impacts, Risk Assessment, and Mitigation/Adaptation Strategies,” John Dorman, NC Office of Geospatial and Technology Management Presentation Not Available “The Use of GIS in Facilitating Regional Climate Assessments in North Carolina,” Greg Dobson, NEMAC/RENCI, UNC Asheville View Presentation
Track 9: Today's EOC: GIS Supporting Disaster Response	“Where to Find Data During the Storm – Understanding Homeland Security Information Program's Gold and Freedom Datasets,” Leah Schwizer, Booz Allen Hamilton Presentation Not Available “COBRA – Charlotte Operations Based Response Analysis System: Providing a Comprehensive View to Incident Command,” Bridget Hayes, Charlotte Fire Department Presentation Not Available “Integrating WebEOC’s Tabular Data Collected from County Emergency Managers into a Web based 'Situational Awareness Viewer.',” Marc Stannard and Carla Woodlief, NC Office of Geospatial and Technology Management Presentation Not Available
Special Session: GIS Goes 3D	“PostGIS 2.0 Raster and 3D Support Enhancements,” Leo Hsu and Regina Obe, Paragon Corporation Presentation Not Available “Emergency Action Plans: Using GIS to Develop Dam Breach Inundation Zones,” Cameron Crenshaw, Schnabel Engineering Presentation Not Available “GIS and Videogame Technology: New Tools for Urban Planning,” Jeff Hicks, NEMAC/RENCI, UNC Asheville View Presentation
Special Session: Award-Winning Undergraduate Student Presentations	"Visual Recognition of Emergency Phones on Campus: Using Viewshed Analysis to Determine Where Emergency Phones Can Be Seen,” Karreem Ali, UNC Charlotte View Presentation “3D Storm Surge Modeling on the Outer Banks,” Nicholas Lee, East Carolina University (Unable to attend) “GIS Modeling to Identify Potential Conservation Easements along the N. and S. Fork New River, NC,” Aaron Chapman, Appalachian State University Presentation Not Available "Verifying Impervious Surfaces for the City of Durham, North Carolina,” Kerry Bacon, NC Central University (Unable to attend)
Concurrent Sessions Friday February 18, 10:30-12:00
Track 1: Wisdom of the Crowd: User Generated Content	“The OpenStreetMap Collaborative Prototype,” Eric Wolf, USGS Presentation Not Available “Let’s Have a (Mapping) Party! The Essentials of OpenStreetMap," Steven Johnson, Deloitte FAS View Presentation “Updating OSM from Public and Institutional Data,” Carl Anderson, GISP, SpatialFocus, Inc. Presentation Not Available
Track 2: Geo-Jenga: How to Stack Your Apps	“SDI: No Longer a 4-Letter Word,” Mike Pumphrey and Alyssa Wright, OpenGeo View Presentation “Cross Comparison of Spatially Enabled Databases: PostGIS, SQL Server and JASPA,” Regina Obe and Leo Hsu, Paragon Corporation View Presentation “The Right Tool for the Job,” Dave Michelson, City of Asheville View Presentation
Track 3: Why Can't I Find an Address?	Panel--Addressing “The FGDC Addressing Standard,” Martha Wells, SpatialFocus, Inc. View Presentation “NENA Next Generation 911 Standard,” Martha Wells, SpatialFocus, Inc. See previous presentation “Standards in Developing a Robust Address Database / Repository,” Rhonda Buckner, Mecklenburg County View Presentation “Keeping the Address Repository Current,” Lee Snuggs, Cabarrus County View Presentation
Track 4: Interagency Coordination and Value Strategies	“Business Process Management: Six Sigma Methodology and Creative Resourcing Solutions,” Charles Rutherford, Mecklenburg County View Presentation “NG 9-1-1 to the Regional GIS Rescue,” Rachel Kilby Bello, Guilford Metro 9-1-1 View Presentation “The National Geospatial Platform,” Karen Siderelis, US Department of the Interior View Presentation
Track 8: 'Earth, Wind and Fire'	“Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Species Habitats and Distributions in the Southeastern US,” Alexa McKerrow, USGS / NC State University View Presentation “Offshore Wind Resources – The Cape Wind Avian Project,” Jeff Burm, AECOM View Presentation “State Assessment of Forest Resources and Lessons Learned from the Hyde County 'Evans Road' Fire,” Andrew Bailey, NC Division of Forest Resources (unable to attend - presented by David Jones, NC Division of Forest Resources) View Presentation
Track 9: Public Safety: Analysis and Planning	“Crime Analysis – Which way did he go … which way did he go?,” Jason Schiess, Durham Police Department View Presentation “Youth Gang Activity Assessment,” Tom Bell, GISP, and Taylor Dellinger, GISP, Western Piedmont COG View Presentation “Vulnerability Indexes for Preparedness Planning,” John Boos, GISP, Research Triangle Institute View Presentation
Special Session: GIS in the Classroom: K-12 Presentations	“Young Citizen Scientists: Tracking Eastern Box Turtles at the Lake Raleigh Area,” Juliana Thomas, Peter Fortunato, Katie Garceran and Sam Smith, Exploris Middle School, Raleigh View Presentation “Using GIS for Physical Health: From the Class Room to the Community,” Geovanny Solero, 4-H Equipo GIS; Thomas Ray, NC State University; Shayne De La Cruz, Vivian McCarter, Anthony Williams and Trent Williams, Fuquay-Varina High School Presentation Not Available “The Mt. Kilimanjaro GIS Project,” Laurie Garo, UNC Charlotte; Jose Alejandro, Camille Long, Lizbeth Rangel and Jackson Styers, John H. Morehead Stem Academy, Charlotte View Presentation
Special Session: Award-Winning Undergraduate Student Presentations	“GIS and Videogame Technology: Development and Integration,” Alex Krebs, UNC Asheville View Presentation “Internet Mapping in Western North Carolina Becomes a Juicy Idea,” Steven Greenhoe, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College View Presentation “Apex High School Cross Country Training Routes,” Jeremy Baynes, NC State University View Presentation "Historical Impact of Suburban Development in Mecklenburg County,” Paul Giers, Central Piedmont Communigy College View Presentation
Concurrent Sessions Friday February 18, 1:30-3:00
Track 1: A Crystal Ball: The World of GIS in 2013	Panel--The World of GIS in 2013 Kate Chapman, Fortius One Jim Fox, NEMAC/RENCI, UNC Asheville View Presentation Tim Johnson, GISP, CGIA Joshua Lieberman, Deloitte FAS Twyla McDermott, GISP, City of charlotte Dave Peters, Esri View Presentation Geoff Zeiss, Autodesk Other presentations Not Available
Track 2: The Forecast for Hardware - virtually Cloudy?	“GPUs, Clouds and Grids: Distributed Geoprocessing for Speed, Scalability and Better Living,” Robert Cheetham, Azavea, Inc. View Presentation “The GeoCloud Initiative: Deploying a Shared Geospatial Platform as a Service (PaaS),” Ken Shaffer, Federal Geographic Data Committee View Presentation Technical Considerations in Building on the Azure Cloud for USGS,” Jeff Harrison, The Carbon Project View Presentation
Track 3: Looking at the World from Above	“Orthos for the State and the Ortho Business Plan,” Jeff Brown, GISP, CGIA, Hope Morgan, GISP, NC Office of Geospatial and Technology Management, and Gary Thompson, NC Geodetic Survey View Presentation “Classification and Profiling of Evergreen Understory and Forest Canopy Using Imagery and LiDAR,” Frank Obusek, CGIA View Presentation “Use of GIS Modeling and High Resolution Imagery to Inventory Carolina Bays,” Jacob Turner, UNC Greensboro Presentation Not Available
Track 4: Business Intelligence	“Business Intelligence – System Integration,” Gary Cokins, SAS Institute, Inc. Presentation Not Available “First Steps in Business Intelligence: Data Automation,” Kristian Forslin, NC Railroad Company Presentation Not Available “Building an Enterprise Business Intelligence Community,” Katie Templeton, Charlotte Department of Transportation View Presentation
Track 8: 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'	“An Overview of Cutting Edge Water Resources GIS Technology,” David Jones, NC Division of forest Resources View Presentation “Mapping North Carolina’s Estuarine Shoreline,” Scott Geis, NC Division of Coastal Management Presentation Not Available “Mapping Wetlands for NC: New Maps and New Approaches,” Doug Newcomb, US Fish & Wildlife Service View Presentation
Track 9: Stay Healthy; Stay Safe	“Buncombe County Multi-Hazard Risk Tool,” Todd Pierce, GISP, NEMAC/RENCI, UNC Asheville View Presentation “Building Geographic Information Systems Capacity as a Public Health Competency,” Joshua Tootoo, Duke University View Presentation “Targeted Outreach & Testing Based on Disease Density Maps,” Carter Vickery, GISP, and Yvonne Torres, Wake County View Presentation
Special Session: Land Records Management	“The Business Case for Seamless Parcels,” Tom Morgan, NC Land Records Management Program, and Nancy von Meyer, GISP, Fairview Industires View Presentation “Digital Data Submissions: Why? How? Who?,” Tripp Corbin, GISP, Keck & Wood, Inc. Presentation Not Available “Implementing Parcel Map Quality Metrics,” Stephen Dew, Guilford County View Presentation
Special Session: Award-Winning Undergraduate Student Presentations	“The Impacts of Impervious Surface Change on Water Quality in Alamance County: 1984-2010,” Samuel Shoge, Elon University View Presentation “A Place to Play: How Rock Climbing Enthusiastics Are Purchasing Land to Increase Access in SE United States,” Sara Casey, UNC Wilmington (Originally planned to present "Mapping Local Food Production in Southeast North Carolina" View Presentation “Teenage Pregnancy Rates, Race, and Poverty in North Carolina,” Maia Call, UNC Chapel Hill Presentation Not Available “Spatial Analysis and Travel Time,” Daniel Newby, UNC Greensboro Presentation Not Available