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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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ESRI Liaisons: |
Other
members’ contact information can be found in the membership
list.
Meetings and Events:
Mark your
calendars! The Group’s next meeting will be October 06, 2009. It will be hosted by Gourdie-Fraser in Traverse City. If
you are interested in doing a presentation or demonstration, please contact
group president Jerremy
Dunlap.
Past
meetings:
The Group’s most recent meeting was on April 21, 2009 and
was hosted by the Michigan Army National Guard,
The Group’s seventeenth meeting was on July 23, 2008 and was
hosted by Charlevoix County. InfoGeographics started the meeting
off with a presentation on optimizing data processes through automation. This
was followed by an overview of ArcGIS 9.3 by ESRI.
After lunch, the Group shared tips and tricks associated data display and
editing within ArcMap. Traverse
City then did a presentation on using the free GNU Image Manipulation
software GIMP with ArcMap to create future
landuse maps. The meeting ended with a tour of the Charlevoix County
The Group’s sixteenth 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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04-05 May 2009 |
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13-17 Jul 2009 |
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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 29 Apr 2009