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Georgia URISA Luncheon May 2015

rjhale · May 5, 2015 ·

Date: May 12, 2015
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Location: ESRI
3650 Brookside Pkwy # 450
Alpharetta, GA 30022

Modeling Highway Traffic Noise with GIS

Starting with the enactment of the Noise Pollution and Abatement Act of 1972, traffic noise has been an important consideration in the planning and construction of transportation projects. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) established and maintains a national policy that provides guidance for both predicting and mitigating traffic noise impacts. The FHWA also developed the Traffic Noise Model (TNM), a sophisticated noise analysis tool required nationwide for analyzing traffic noise. As a supplement to the TNM and a data management framework, GIS plays a valuable role in traffic noise analysis. This presentation will discuss the practical application of GIS for highway traffic noise impact analysis, including the custom tools, techniques, and methodologies employed to facilitate and manage the process as state and federal policies continue to evolve.

Brandon Batt, Edwards-Pitman Environmental

Brandon Batt is an air/noise specialist and serves as the head of GIS at Edwards-Pitman Environmental (EPEI), an Atlanta-based consulting firm. In his seven years at EPEI, Brandon has specialized in providing GIS and other technical solutions for a variety of disciplines in the firm, including the air/noise, archaeology, ecology, historic architecture, and NEPA groups. Brandon completed his undergraduate degree in 2007 at the University of Georgia, and completed his graduate degree through Penn State’s MGIS program in 2014. Brandon is a self-taught developer, and enjoys employing code and technology in providing solutions for EPEI as the organization continues to grow.

Luncheon Overview: Luncheons are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month unless otherwise noted. They are intended to provide a social and friendly atmosphere for learning about the successes of our members and to provide opportunities for networking. All are invited to join and students are especially encouraged! You’ll earn 0.1 conference attendance points towards your GISP Certification by attending each luncheon.

Agenda: Meetings are orchestrated according to the following agenda:

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Lunch and Networking
12:00 p.m. – 12:10 p.m. – Announcements
12:10 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. – Presentation
1:10 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. – Discussion

Cost
Member Pre-Register and Prepay (ends Sunday, May 10th at 11:59 pm): $12.00
Member Pre-Register and Pay at Door / Walk-In: $15.00
Non-Member Pre-Register and Prepay (ends Sunday, May 10th at 11:59 pm): $15.00
Non-Member Pre-Register and Pay at Door / Walk-In: $18.00
Register Now!

December Georgia URISA Luncheon 2014

rjhale · Dec 2, 2014 ·

Date: December 9, 2014

Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Location: Johns Creek Environmental Campus

8100 Holcomb Bridge Road

Roswell, GA 30022

Web GIS Strategy, Development, and Philosophy

A discussion of strategy and philosophy regarding GIS on the web. What is web based GIS supposed to deliver? What should it look like? This presentation will focus on the different goals and roles that web based GIS can be used to accomplish and how it can be used within an organization.

Biography: Joseph Woycke, Director of GIS, Cherokee County

Joseph Woycke is the Director of GIS for Cherokee County, GA. He has held that position for the last 10 years. Mr. Woycke built the GIS at Cherokee County and has developed and evangelized GIS use in community development, public works, public safety, tax assessment, and many other phases of local government. He worked for several environmental engineering companies prior to working at Cherokee County. He is a graduate of Miami University (OH) where he studied environmental science.

Agenda: Meetings are orchestrated according to the following agenda:

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Lunch and Networking
12:00 p.m. – 12:10 p.m. – Announcements
12:10 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. – Presentation
1:10 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. – Discussion

Cost
Member Pre-Register and Prepay (ends Sunday, December 7th at 11:59 pm): $12.00
Member Pre-Register and Pay at Door / Walk-In: $15.00

Non-Member Pre-Register and Prepay (ends Sunday, December 7th at 11:59 pm): $15.00
Non-Member Pre-Register and Pay at Door / Walk-In: $18.00

Register

Georgia URISA Subchapter Meeting – November 18th 2014

rjhale · Oct 21, 2014 ·

Applying Tropical Storm Debbie’s Flood Inundation to Past and Current Datasets

Please join us on November 18, 2014 for the next Coastal Georgia URISA Sub-Chapter meeting.

“Applying Tropical Storm Debby’s Flood Inudation to Past and Current Datasets” discusses how from June 22-27, 2012, tropical storm Debby impacted the South Georgia – North Florida region with record rainfall and flooding.

The City of Kingsland GIS Department took the opportunity to document the extent of the riverine flood water inundation along the St. Marys River in Georgia as a baseline for use in future DRIRM (Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps) updates, as well as a tool in evaluating the accuracy of the extent of current regulatory flood data for the area. Results of the exercise showed this event to be a new record high water event, surpassing previous record flooding from hurricane Dora in 1964. The current regulatory data for the area is, for the most part, spatially accurate for a riverine event of this type. Analysis of the collected data showed that only minor modifications to the existing DFIRM event would be needed to match the actual recorded inundation extent and that up-to-date LIDAR data played a critical role in the accurate modeling of this event.

Date: November 18th, 2014

Time: 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Location: Coastal Regional Commission

1181 Coastal Drive, SW

Darien, GA 31305

Speaker: Paul Speich, CFM, GISP

GIS Manager

City of Kingsland

Contact for more info:

P. Hunter Key (GISP)

GIS ManagerCoastal Regional Commission

1181 Coastal Drive SW, Darien, GA 31305

Phone: 912.437.0876Email: hkey@crc.ga.gov

Boreds

rjhale · Oct 9, 2014 ·

I’ve been on a lot of boards. OSM. Mid South ASPRS. GA URISA. TNGIC. Four of the five are hard to deal with. The Georgia URISA board never quite was that difficult. There is the normal insanity that comes with every board. Resignations. Anger. Drama. Conferences. Workshops.

I appeared at my first conference in 2006 by calling in sick to my normal job and coming to Athens Georgia for 3 days. Went to talks. Went to meetings. Went to the social. They had rented out a bar that I’m pretty sure had changed names 4 or 5 times since 2006. I passed by it Tuesday night on my way to the 2014 Social. We left the 2006 social in a taxi. One person jumped up and said I DON’T WANT TO GO HOME. So we ended up at the Georgia Theatre. I think I was there until 2 or 3 in the morning watching some band that has no doubt changed names 4 or 5 times since 2006.

Tuesday night I found myself sitting at the Georgia Theatre with one of the original “don’t wanna go home” group from 2006. Since Then I’ve changed positions on the board 4 or 5 times….North Georgia Subchapter Chair, Education Chair, VP, President, and Finally IPP. At some point during educations chair I had a meltdown – divorce. I didn’t really feel that the board was very cohesive at that point. So I had to make my first confessional – “This meeting I planned won’t happen unless everyone helps because well……” and they all came – every one of them…from up to two hours away. So I sat at Gainesville state college with a group of people who understood more than I thought and talked about some mapping application called OSM no one had heard of….. So I got through that meeting and kept going. It was always a nice break coming to Atlanta from Chattanooga for the meetings. I actually miss the drive back to Chattanooga last night. I typically would take the longest way home possible to sit and think. Last night I didn’t have my normal texting buddy….I had a 10 minute commute to the duplex. I piled into bed and here I sit.

I’m a firm believer on boards need fresh blood. If you don’t it gets stale. It’s a problem with one of the boards I was on – no one wanted to let go. So it’s got just painful and I resigned. I resigned from the OSM Board because I sucked at treasurer and I could barely get a handle on my account much less another one.

So now what? I’m not quite done – I’ve got two more emails to send, one more function to preside over, and I can go gentle into that good night for a bit. I’ve got a few more things I want to do…a few more problems I want to cause….but I don’t have to do it while on the board for Georgia URISA……Because they would always win for my attention.

QGIS/OSGEO Meetup on October 9th 2014 – Athens Georgia

rjhale · Sep 23, 2014 ·

Well – so the second QGIS meetup happens at the Georgia Geospatial Conference in Athens October 9th 2014. Currently the location is “Hunt me down at the conference on Monday”.

I had a brief email conversation yesterday and my debate is turning this into more of an OSGEO Meetup group. The discussion jumped around “chapter” and “official” and in the end it was decided to just run with a meetup for a while and see what happens. It’s all in the advertising – and I think “OSGEO” has more gravitas than “QGIS”. Not that I’m abandoning the QGIS Group by any means – it just widens the noise a bit with what I can do vs. focusing on 1 piece of software.

Anyway – watch for more info coming shortly. We’re two weeks out from the conference. I’m doing two talks and one workshop. Prepare for more noise on the workshop also as it gets “opened” as somewhat of a pattern for a Mapping Party type of event…for GIS People.