MAST will be meeting on Friday, March 2, 2012 in Long Beach at the Gulf Park Campus in FEC 101 (formerly AEC) at 12:30pm. As always, lunch will be provided, but this time I’d like to place an emphasis on Please RSVP because David Holt needs a head count for parking permits. So, again, Please RSVP!

Our guest speaker will be a representative from Geo-Jobe, Inc. discussing current activities on the Gulf Coast.

Please join us on March 2 in Long Beach! Here’s a link to the Gulf Park campus map: Gulf Park Campus Map

Please feel to RSVP by email to PBarnes@smpdd.com.

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Two meetings took place in the month of June 2011. The Gulfport meeting was held at the Gulf Regional Planning Commission office (GRPC) and the Jackson meeting took place at the Central Mississippi Planning and Development office (CMPDD).

Gulfport Meeting Notes

• Charles Meador of the USM Marine Science department presented regarding Marine Science and GIS.
• Scott Delano, Mississippi representative for district 117, discussed data needs and GIS in the state.
• An announcement was made to the group regarding the need for volunteers for committees.

Jackson Meeting Notes

• Dr. David Holt presented regarding a data collection project in Long Beach, MS. The project involved the collection of address points, building foot prints and data related to the city cemetery layout.
• New data sets have been uploaded to the state GIS data warehouse including street centerlines for many delta counties.

 

SpaceStars is a program geared toward training high school students for GIS employment. The local chapter at Gulfport High School is in search of intern opportunities for their students this summer. Most students hold certificates backed by an ESRI partner, Digital Quest, that ensures a minimum of technician level training in GIS and ESRI software. If you need any digitizing or similar work done and have an opening for an intern, please contact Scott Pfaff at scott.pfaff@gulfportschools.org .

Today’s meeting had 26 people in attendance.

The agenda for this meeting can be found here.

The presentation for the meeting can be found here.

Links to software discussed at today’s meeting:

• gvSIG
• VMWare
• Batch GEO
• DropBox

The Mississippi Association for Spatial Technologies will hold a meeting in the SMPDD Conference room. The presenter for this meeting will be Scott Samson. His presentation will be on the subject of gvSIG, which is a free open source GIS software package. Lunch will be provided. Please feel RSVP by email to PBarnes@smpdd.com for by joining us on Facebook and marking yourself as attending for the meeting. Facebook Group Link

MAST will hold a December meeting in the MARIS Technical Center Conference room in Jackson at 12:30 PM, Friday, December 17, 2010. Currently there is no presentation scheduled and the meeting will involve networking and an open round table discussion. Lunch will be provided, so please RSVP. Please visit our new web site and join us on Facebook.

The Mississippi Association for Spatial Technologies will hold a meeting in the SMPDD Conference room. The meeting will be a networking lunch and open forum of local GIS. Lunch will be provided. Please feel RSVP by email to PBarnes@smpdd.com for by joining us on Facebook and marking yourself as attending for the meeting. Facebook Group Link

On October 28th, 2010 mastgis.org received a new look. Many members may remember the Adobe Flash site which was previously used by MAST. The new site is a PHP / WordPress 3.0 site based on industry standard content management practices. This means that content such as a pages and news posts can be generated by approved users using a simple interface. Please visit the site often for updates.