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• City of Mississauga Migrates to the ArcGIS Pro Parcel Fabric

  • When
    March 30, 2023
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Webinar

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  CITY OF MISSISSAUGA MIGRATES TO THE ARCGIS PRO PARCEL FABRIC 

  Date: March 30, 2023, Noon to 1:00 PM

  Presenter

  Webinar will be led by Heather Page, Hung Giang, and Rajni Gupta

  Heather Page, Team Lead - Land Information Solutions Professional Services Team - Esri Canada

  Hung Giang, GIS Analyst - City of Mississauga

  Rajni Gupta, Manager - Data Management Group - City of Mississauga

  
  

  Heather Page is the team lead for Esri Canada's Land Information Solutions Professional Services Team. She is responsible for assisting Canadian customers implement and optimize their land administration and land records.

  Hung Giang is the GIS Analyst in the Geospatial Solutions section in the Information Technology department with the City of Mississauga. The Geospatial Solutions team consists of 40 GIS Professionals, Developers and Project Leaders providing GIS, Asset Management, Work Order, Field Inspection and Data Collection solutions to the organization. Hung has actively developed and supported various applications for data maintenance such as property, street centerline, address, stormwater, and planimetric information. Within the last year, he has helped migrate many of the existing CAD data and maintenance processes over to the ESRI Enterprise Platform.

  Rajni Gupta provides overall support to the Data Management Group who is responsible for maintaining the GIS datasets of Parcel, Address, Street, Storm Network, 3D Topographic Mapping, Landuse, Zoning and other datasets. She leads the team for migrating existing CAD Data Maintenance processes to Esri Enterprise platform.

  
  

  The City of Mississauga is the first organization in Canada to implement the ArcGIS Pro parcel fabric. Together with Esri Canada’s Land Information Solutions team, the City completed a digital land parcel modernization project to transform their parcel maintenance environment from a CAD based system to the ArcGIS Pro parcel fabric, successfully modernizing their parcel maintenance and publication activities.

  This presentation covers how the collaborative approach between the City of Mississauga and Esri Canada’s Land Information Solutions team ensured a successful outcome, from data migration through to implementation support, and provides current metrics and lessons learned. It also covers how ArcGIS Pro’s out of the box technology including Tasks, Attribute Rules and Branch Versioning were leveraged, resulting in improvements in daily maintenance activity efficiency and to overall data quality. Finally, it covers how the core ArcGIS Pro parcel fabric model and Canadian Parcel Data Model (CPDM) were configured and extended to best fit the City’s data and connect into existing business systems

  
  

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• GIS Capability Maturity Model

  • When
    April 18, 2023
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    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Webinar

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  GIS Capability maturity model 

  Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2023, Noon to 2:00 PM

  Presenter

  Workshop will be led by Greg Babinski

  Greg Babinski is Marketing and Business Development Manager for the King County GIS Center in Seattle, where he has worked since 1998. Previously he worked for nine years as GIS Mapping Supervisor for the East Bay Municipal Utility District in Oakland.
  

  He holds an MA in geography from Wayne State University. Greg is a GISP Certified GIS Professional. Greg is Past-President of URISA and founder and Past-Chair of URISA’s GIS Management Institute. In 2005 he founded The Summit,  the Washington State GIS Newsletter. Greg originated the URISA GIS Capability Maturity Model and participated in the development of the Geospatial Management Competency Model. Most recently Greg has focused on the application of GIS for issues related to equity and social justice. He is co-author of the URISA-Certified Introduction to GIS for Equity and Social Justice Workshop. 
  Greg’s Ethical GEO Fellowship allowed him to develop GIS for Equity and Social Justice Best Practices that further the aims of the Ethical GEO fellowship program.
  
  In addition to his work for King County, Greg is a GIS consultant, researcher, author, and instructor. He has spoken about GIS management across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Greg also taught GIS for Public Policy at the University of Washington Evans Graduate School of Public Administration. In his spare time, Greg likes hiking steep, narrow and dangerous trails that lead high above the clouds to awesome views.

  Goals and objectives of this workshop

  This workshop introduces a variety of GIS maturity models in common use throughout the geospatial community. It will focus on the GIS Capability Maturity Model (GISCMM) as tool for GIS management, operations, and tracking. Through hands-on exercises, workshop attendees will complete an initial assessment of their own GIS operation.

  Enterprise GIS is expensive to develop, maintain, and operate. Even small-to-medium-sized cities, counties, and regional agencies have invested millions of dollars to develop their GIS capabilities, and they can have large annual operating budgets. Many recent third-party studies have proven that GIS delivers significant financial return on investment (ROI) to organizations that deploy it as an enterprise business-support tool. However, almost no GIS operation would be considered to be 100% implemented. In fact, most enterprise GIS operations lack important resources to meet all of their potential business needs, their sustainability is uncertain, and ROI varies depending on the maturity of their GIS management practices.

  The GIS Capability Maturity Model will be described, along with its relationship to the USDOLETA Geospatial Management Competency Model.

  Workshop attendees will receive copies of the GISCMM. An exercise will be conducted during the workshop, during which attendees will be asked to perform an initial assessment of their agency by applying the GISCMM. This workshop will be of value to those interested in the development, implementation, and use of GIS management professional standards and best practices.

  Audience

  IT directors/managers, GIS managers, decision makers, and operational personnel interested in understanding the overall state of their GIS operations.

  Topics Covered

  • What is a capability maturity model?
  • A survey of GIS capability maturity models
  • Origins of the GIS Capability Maturity Model
  • The Geospatial Management Competency Model
  • Theory of GIS Management
  • Development of the revised, peer-reviewed GIS Capability Maturity Model
  • Exercise: The GIS Capability Maturity Model—Step by Step
  • Methods of displaying and comparing results
  • Exercise: Attendee discussion and feedback

  Prerequisites and Recommendations

  No prerequisite. Recommended for GIS managers, consultants, and academics interested in understanding GIS management.

  What You Will Receive

  • 2 hours of instruction from Greg Babinski, who is a subject-matter expert and workshop author.
  • A copy of the workshop presentation and exercises.
  • Upon completion, a signed completion certificate which will indicate the educational credits/points earned.
  • An invitation to periodic GIS management Q&A sessions with the instructor and other workshop attendees.

  Note: Further GIS Management Academy workshops will be offered by Greg at BeSpatial' 2023 as part of your BeSpatial with workshops registration option.

  
  

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• BeSpatial'23 BeCreative

  • Start
    May 02, 2023
  •  
    8:00 AM
  • End
    May 03, 2023
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

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  BeSpatial'23 - BeCreative

  When: May 2 & 3, 2023

  Open Each Day: 8:30 AM until 4:00PM

  Where: Virtual - Early bird registrations - in effect and extended until March 31st.

  BeSpatial Spotlight

  Day 1 – Geospatial Creativity in Real Places 
  Day 2 – Creative Ways to Tackle Business Problems with Geospatial Data and Technology

  Note: Registration type - BeSpatial including workshop(s) is required to attend any or all of the three (3) GIS Academy workshops that will be held each afternoon of BeSpatial’23 over 2 days:

  •  Promote and Grow your GIS for Successful Geospatial Managers 
  • • https://www.bespatialontario.ca/News/13104254
  •  GIS Funding, Budgeting and Financial Management for GIS Managers
  • • https://www.bespatialontario.ca/News/13104268
      
  •  GIS Return on Investment (ROI) Fundamentals
  • • https://www.bespatialontario.ca/News/13104260

  Interested in submitting for an award? Details: here!

  Join your geospatial and information community to listen to this inspiring speaker and stay to participate in the 2 day event of presentations, exhibits and much more...

  This is a 1 full virtual event being offered May 2 & 3 over two 7 hour days.  One event registration will include full access to each day's 4 hour morning program streams that will focus on technical, business, management/executive presentations. Plus, there's our popular Industry partners EXPO and  presentation sessions along with visitations opportunities happening all day. 

  

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