4th Annual Eastern Panhandle WV GIS Users Group Meeting

1. 4th Annual Eastern Panhandle (WV) GIS Users Group Meeting – August 10th, 2010
Sponsored by Region 9 & Morgan County Economic Development Authority
Held at The Country Inn, Berkeley Springs, WV
Total Attendance = 60
Conference Organizing Committee Members:
Carol Crabtree, Region 9 - Eastern Panhandle Regional Planning and Development Council
Bette Kidwell, Region 9 - Eastern Panhandle Regional Planning and Development Council
Bill Clark, Morgan County Economic Development Authority
Matt Mullenax, Parsons Brinckerhoff
Todd Fagan, Jefferson County GIS
Jessica Gormont, Jefferson County GIS
Sponsoring Vendors:
Christine Iksic, Precision Laser & Instrument, Inc.
Jim Owecke, Earth Vector Systems LLC
Matt Martin, Delta Development Group, Inc.
Speakers Presented:
Carol Crabtree, Region 9 - Eastern Panhandle Regional Planning and Development Council - (sponsor – Welcome & Introductions)
Commissioner Brenda Hutchinson, Morgan County, WV - (host - Welcome & Introductions)
Bill Clark, Morgan County Economic Development Authority - (host - Welcome & Introductions)
Matt Mullenax, Parsons Brinckerhoff - (facilitator- Welcome & Introductions)
Matthew Pennington, Berkeley County, WV – (Practical Applications of GIS)
Tori Myers, Jefferson County, WV Assessor’s Office – (Jefferson County Parcel Mapping)
Kevin Kuhn and Evan Fedorko, West Virginia GIS Technical Center – (Lightning Talks: Overview of National Hydrography Dataset,
Integration of WV DOT Road Data and Addressing Data, West Virginia Mass Evacuation Planning, and Tech Center Web
Resources)
Patrick Corley, West Virginia University – (Trails, Subdivision, Zip Code and Land Cover Projects)
Heather McSharry, Shepherd University – (Historic Landmark Mapping and Roof Slope Evaluation for Solar Panels)
Jim Owecke, Earth Vector Systems LLC – (Integration of Digital Camera Photography into Mobile GIS Data Collection)
Seth Van Aken and Jake Skinner, ESRI – (ArcGIS 10 Lands Record Management)
Map Gallery Awards:
st
1 Place - Meghan Hammond, Washington County, MD
nd
2 Place – Heather McSharry, Shepherd University
rd
3 Place – Tori Myers, Jefferson County, WV
Follow Up contact Information:
Jefferson County, WV GIS
tfagan@jeffersoncountywv.org
304.724.6759
116 E. Washington St., Suite 201
Charles Town, WV 25414