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ESRI Northern
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Welcome to the official home page of the ESRI
Northern Michigan User Group.
The ESRI Northern Michigan User Group (ENMUG) is an
association of GIS professionals and other ESRI product users from the public, private,
and non-profit sectors who meet on a roughly semiannual schedule to discuss and
share ideas concerning ESRI GIS software and related technologies. These
meetings are open to all persons interested in ESRI GIS and associated
subjects.
Current Officers:
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Other
members’ contact information can be found in the membership
list.
Meetings and Events:
The Group’s next meeting will be sometime in mid to
late July 2008. If you are interested in hosting the meeting or doing a
presentation or demonstration, please contact Jerremy Dunlap.
Past
meetings:
The Group’s most recent meeting was on January 29, 2008. It
was hosted by Cherryland
Electric Cooperative at their office in Grawn
(just outside
The Group’s fifteenth meeting was held on July 31, 2007. The
US Forest Service hosted the meeting at the
The Group’s fourteenth meeting took place on January 30,
2007. This meeting was hosted by Traverse
City. Michigan DNR started the meeting with a presentation comparing
contemporary landcover datasets.
The Group’s thirteenth meeting was July 17, 2006. This
meeting was hosted by
The Group’s twelfth semiannual meeting was held on January
31, 2006. This meeting was hosted by Traverse City.
The Group’s eleventh semiannual meeting was held on July 12,
2005. This meeting was hosted by
The Group’s tenth semiannual meeting took place on January
25, 2005. This meeting was host by Traverse City
Light and Power at their offices in
The Group’s ninth semiannual meeting was held on June 23,
2004. This meeting was hosted by the Traverse City. In the morning,
The Group’s eighth semiannual meeting was held on January
27, 2004. This meeting was hosted by the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians at
their conference center in Manistee. Grand Traverse County initiated the
meeting with a discussion of their GIS Web Application. This was followed by a
presentation from the US Forest Service. ESRI closed the meeting with a
discussion of their mobile GIS technology. Morning refreshments and lunch were
generously provided by the Little River Band.
The Group’s seventh semiannual meeting was held on July 29,
2003. This meeting was hosted by Charlevoix County. The meeting commenced with
a presentation by the Northwest Michigan Community Health Agency on the use of
GIS for groundwater protection. InfoGeographics
followed with a presentation of their recently released GeoConnector product.
After lunch, Grand Traverse County shared with the group their views on
addressing and the integration of site plans and other scanned documents within
GIS. ESRI concluded the meeting by demonstrating the use of their software in a
utility context.
The Group’s sixth meeting was held on January 28, 2003. This
meeting was hosted by the Michigan DNR’s Spatial
Information Resource Center (SIRC) at their facilities in Roscommon. The DNR
kicked off the meeting with a discussion of their land management practices and
use of GIS therein. This was followed by a presentation by Grand Traverse
County on the development of their highly useful landmark layer. After lunch
ESRI provided a sneak peek at the topology and editing capabilities of ArcGIS
8.3. The meeting concluded with Traverse
City bringing the group up-to-date on its GIS program.
The Group’s fifth semiannual was held on July 23, 2002. This
meeting was hosted by the City of Traverse City. The meeting started off with
presentations by ESRI staff on the recent User Conference in San Diego, and
demonstrations on the georeferencing, spatial
adjustment, and map series toolbars shipped with ArcGIS. Manistee and
Charlevoix counties then brought the group up-to-date on their GIS activities.
After lunch, Scott Dryzga of MSU discussed his research on parcel
ownership and forest cover and mapping the shoreline of ancient
The Group’s forth semiannual was held on January 29, 2002.
This meeting was hosted by the Michigan DNR’s Spatial
Information Resource Center (SIRC) at their facilities in Roscommon. ESRI
brought the group up-to-date on the status of their product suite and
demonstrated tips-and-tricks for optimizing performance within the ArcGIS
environment. Other user-presented topics included: an overview of Grand
Traverse County’s street centerline redesign and related projects, a
demonstration of SDS’ EMaps
service, and a demonstration on using ArcView and free data to create hunting
maps. An open discussion of various GIS topics also occurred. The meeting ended
with a presentation about, and tour of, the SIRC.
The Group’s third semiannual meeting occurred on July 23,
2001 at the Gaylord Holiday Inn in Gaylord. It was sponsored by Gosling Czubak
Engineering Sciences, Inc. Discussions were lead by ESRI staff and several
user group members on topics including the new ArcGIS suite of GIS software,
Traverse City’s distribution of GIS applications to remote users, opportunities
and issues for GIS at county road commissions, and developing a GIS for
assessors’ using free data.
The Group’s second semiannual meeting occurred on January
22, 2001 at the Government Center in Traverse City. It was hosted by the City of Traverse City and
The Group’s initial meeting was held July 17, 2000 at the
Upcoming Events of note for Northern Michigan GIS
Users:
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04-08 May 2008 |
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Interesting GIS Reference Sites:
Michigan
Geographic Data Library
Other ESRI Users Groups in Michigan:
ESRI Upper Peninsula
of Michigan User Group (EUPMUG)
The site
hosted by InfoGeographics and
maintained by Brooks
E. Kelley
Last Updated 07 Feb 2008