AppGeo Tech Demo: From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT: Exploration as a State of Mind

Rich Grady, President
Kate Hickey, Vice President
Jim Scott, Director, Western Operations
Kara Manton, Product Manager
Maurice Khollman, Product Sales Manager
Jenn Sylvester, Project Manager

Transcript

1. Licensed Photo by Jana Birchum
2. October 27, 2016 From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT: Exploration as a State of Mind
3. | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT 3 Here with you today Kara Manton Product Manager Maurice Khollman Product Sales Manager Jenn Sylvester Project Manager Jim Scott Director, Western Operations Rich Grady President Kate Hickey Vice President
4. Licensed Photo by Jana Birchum
5. I. Find Your Park
6. Centennial Celebrations: • Jacque Fresco, Futurist • Our National Parks Service 100th | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT 6 Silver Jubilee Celebrations: • NSGIC’s 25th Anniversary • AppGeo’s 25th Anniversary A Few Milestones
7. I’m Going to Circle Back to This! 7 | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT
8. What is “Exploration in Texas”? 8 a. A book by John Davis, Institute of Texan Cultures, 1984 b. A lot of fun c. What I want to talk about d. All of the above | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT
9. Exploration Defined 9 “Exploration happens, of course, when one goes looking – looking for something new. A new place, a new idea, a new way of doing something. Not all explorations are successful, but then success is not necessarily measured by what one finds. The process itself may be worthwhile.” [Op. cit., John Davis, Exploration in Texas: Ancient and Otherwise, p. 104.] | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT
10. Exploration in Action 10 “In 1974, I led an expedition to explore the great New England Seamount Chain. Thousands of feet underwater, the chain includes four underwater volcanic mountains that formed over 100 million years ago…Standing high above the surrounding ocean floor, these massive undersea mountains are visible oases of life in an otherwise vast, undersea desert. On their rocky slopes, fragile deep sea corals feed in the nutrient rich waters that flow past.” | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT [Dr. Robert Ballard remarks in a Whitehouse.gov mailing upon President Obama’s announcement of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monument, 9/15/16] Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Photos
12. 12 • So, I found my park • “Exploring is more a state of mind than a physical activity.” [Op. cit., Davis p.106] • This is just somewhere else! Back to: “Find Your Park” | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT
13. 13 • Highest peak in Texas, Guadalupe Peak (aka Signal Peak) 8,751’ above sea level • Mountains formed in Permian Era (265 m. years ago) when vast tropical sea covered the area • Phenomenal example of a fossilized reef • Mountain Time, not Central! [Source:https: //www.nps.gov/gumo/index.htm] | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT Guadalupe Mountain National Park
14. 14 “Our trail ascends the way past waxy leaves of Madrone trees with smooth and reddish trunks and on up past some blooming cholla in a cold March wind, and higher toward a limestone ledge washed with desert varnish looming above a pinon forest lending voice to the constant gusty winds of western Texas.” [Richard F. Fleck, “Mountains on My Mind: Poems of the Inter-Mountain West,” Climbing Magazine, 2010] | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT Photo By Elsa Eliuth from Mexico City, Mexico - Pink Flower in Cactus Uploaded by Epibase, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8713134 Guadalupe Peak, High Above the Mesquite
15. 15 NPS Photo | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT Waiting to be Explored!
16. 16 • Explore when you can – not just in the great outdoors or under the ocean, but our Geospatial/IT frontiers! • To explore can be a challenge, requiring courage to seek new horizons, and endurance for the journey • “The process itself may be worthwhile…It involves innovative thinking and action.” [Op. cit, John Davis, Exploration in Texas.] • See you on Guadalupe Peak! | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT Takeaways
17. II. Who We are and What We Believe
18. 18 | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT We Want to be an Extraordinary Collaborator
19. 19 | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT • Geoanalytics • Scalability • Planning new technology • Data sharing & information mobility We Go Deep Into Tackling Problems
20. 20 | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT Correlating & Visualizing • Demographics • Housing & Market Conditions • Landuse & Development • Neighborhood Services & Conditions Geoanalytics & Data Visualization
21. 21 | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT From Open Data to Open Knowledge
22. 22 • Cloud deployment • Eliminating data & organizational silos • Automating Workflows • Going mobile | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT Navigate to Simplicity on the Other Side of Complexity
23. 23 BREAKING NEWS! The National Address Database is here! • 16.8 million addresses so far • A “coalition of the willing” | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT Exciting Things Happening in our Industry: Addressing
24. 24 • Frictionless data movement • State DOTs: CAD to GIS data interoperability | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT Exciting Things Happening in our Industry: Data Interoperability & Information Mobility
25. 25 • Make data useful, usable and used! • Quality over quantity • Engage users: what do they want to do? • Visualize & analyze (not just fancy FTP) | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT Changing the Course of Open Data in Boston
26. III. What’s Been Happening in Texas?
27. 27 Wildlife Management Systems Imagery Services Statewide Parcel Study Real Time Flood Mapping Real Time Road Conditions | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT Some Exciting Work Happening in Texas!
28. Texas Parks & Wildlife: Managed Lands Deer Program 28 | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT • Unified, spatially enabled permitting system • Connecting Texas Landowners and TPWD staff to promote self-service deer tags • Supports environmental stewardship
29. TNRIS & DIR – Imagery Services 29 | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT • Google Imagery as a Service ◦ Resolution: 15 cm (6in) ◦ Accuracy: ~1 meter • WMS and WMTS services for consumption in GIS environments
30. 30 | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT • “State of the State” Discovery ◦ Value of unified parcel data program ◦ Inventory of data ◦ Partnerships • Collaborating with Dave Cowen, expert on national parcel collection/standardization TNRIS: Statewide Parcel Planning “Land parcels represent the critical geographic dimension to analyze the use, value, and ownership of property”
31. 31 | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT • Integrates with Flood modeling software for emergency planning and response in a simple, responsive UI • Links to important information ◦ Maps (Inundation, Location) ◦ Images & Graphs San Antonio River Authority – Flood Mapping
32. TxDOT – Real Time Roadway Conditions 32 | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT • Public Traveller information system designed for scale • New Features ◦ Contraflow routes ◦ Evacuation routes
33. 33 | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT We Strive for Meaningful & Productive Partnerships
34. 34 | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT We Strive for Meaningful & Productive Partnerships
35. 35 | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT Open Data Perspectives & Inspiration “Systems of Engagement” -Geoffrey Moore “New Power” -Jeremy Heimans “Exponential Government” -Dustin Haisler “Conversational Commerce” -Chris Messina
36. 36 | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT People Are Changing Their Modes of Interaction
37. 37 | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT Open Data Is Driving Artificial Intelligence Innovation “Interestingly, these advancements have arguably been driven mostly by the exponential growth of (high-quality annotated) data(sets), rather than algorithms” - Techcrunch, “The AI Disruption Wave” October 13, 2016
38. 38 | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT Stewards and Curators of Open Data Will Shape Our Future
39. 39 | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT Stewards and Curators of Open Data Will Shape Our Future
40. 40 | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT Stewards and Curators of Open Data Will Shape Our Future
41. 41 | From the Guadalupe Mountains to Geospatial/IT Stewards and Curators of Open Data Will Shape Our Future
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