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Volume 38 Number 1 November 2006
Western Association of Map Libraries
“. . . to encourage high standards in every phase of organization and
administration of map libraries . . .”The Western Association of Map Libraries is an independent association of persons. The Membership has defined its
Principal Region for meeting locations as: the Provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, and the States of Alaska, Ari-
zona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
Membership in WAML is open to any individual interested in furthering the purpose of the Association, which is “to
encourage high standards in every phase of the organization and administration of map libraries.” Membership includes
receipt of all issues of the Information Bulletin and Electronic News & Notes (if an email address is provided), mail an-
nouncements of WAML meetings, voting privileges and receipt of WAML ballots.
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WAML Executive Board (July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007)
President Treasurer Subscription Manager
Wendie Helms Barbara Gasman Jim O’Donnell
Map Collection Novacell Technologies Geology Library 100-23
Science Library P.O. Box 2244 California Institute of Technology
3401 Watkins Dr. Menlo Park CA 94026-2244 Pasadena, CA 91125
Riverside, CA 92521 (650) 473-9449 wamlsubsmgr@yahoo.com
(951) 827-6423 bgasman@novacell.com
wendie@ucr.edu Business Manager
Secretary Julie Hoff
Vice President/President Elect Greg Armento WAML Book & Sales Manager
Mary H. Douglass University Library Map Collection
Librarian - History, Travel & Maps California State University Arizona State Library
Department 1250 Bellflower Boulevard 1700 West Washington
Seattle Public Library Long Beach, CA 90840 Phoenix, AZ 85007
1000 Fourth Ave. (562) 985-4367 (602) 542-4343
Seattle, WA 98104 garmento@csulb.edu Fax: (602) 542-4400
Workroom Phone 206-733-9083 jhoff@lib.az.us
Reference Desk 206-386-4632
mary.douglass@spl.org Membership Manager
Christopher Thiry
Past President Map Librarian
Mabel Suzuki Arthur Lakes Library
University of Hawaii at Manoa Colorado School of Mines
Thomas H. Hamilton Library Golden, CO 80401-1887
2550 The Mall (303) 273-3697
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Fax: (303) 273-3199
(808) 956-2551 cthiry@mines.edu
FAX (808) 956-5968
mabel@hawaii.eduWestern Association of Map Libraries
Volume 38, No. 1 INFORMATION BULLETIN November 2006
Table of Contents
WAML Business
Announcements...................................................................................................................5
WAML Spring 2006 Conference
WAML Fall 2006 Meeting Recap.......................................................................................6
Cartographic Users Advisory Council 2006 Annual Agency Meeting Minutes........................14
Duties and Responsibilities of WAML Officers, Appointees, Representatives/Liaisons.......30
Reviews of Atlases, Books and Digital Resources edited by Jon Jablonski ..........................................36
Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway reviewed by David Y. Allen; Think globally, act re-
gionally: GIS and data visualization for social science and public policy research reviewed by An-
gela M. Gooden; Spatial Portals: Gateways to Geographic Information reviewed by Linda Zellmer
New Mapping of Western North America compiled by Ken Rockwell...................................41
News & Notes compiled by Cynthia Jahns
Members of the Month........................................................................................................... 54
Benchmarks..................................................................................................................................55
Canadian News..............................................................................................................................56
Cataloging News...........................................................................................................................56
Conferences & Classes...................................................................................................................56
Federal, State and Local Government.................................................................................................57
General News ...............................................................................................................57
Internet Resources.................................................................................................................58
New Publications..........................................................................................................................58
Periodical Articles...................................................................................................................58
US ISSN 0049-7282 © 2006 by The Western Association of Map Libraries LC #72-625238WAML Information Bulletin 38(1) November 2006
Instructions for Authors
The Western Association of Map Libraries Information Bulletin publishes feature articles, photoessays, asso-
ciation business and selected news and notes related to all forms of cartographic information, including maps,
spatial data, GIS, and all aspects of map librarianship. Articles are invited that will address the interests of the
publications’ audience. Individuals are encouraged to submit unsolicited articles for consideration.
Length: Articles should be submitted to the Information Bulletin editor via email or on disk in either Micro-
soft Word or ASCII text format. Submissions should be accompanied by a printed copy which is no more than
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in the article. Paragraphs should be separated by two line breaks. When submitting articles on disk, please note
the author(s) name(s), the word processing program, a brief title of your article and the file name(s) on the disk.
Cartographic information is, for the most part, a visual medium, so illustrations should be included whenever
possible. Note the approximate location of illustrations by inserting a separate sentence in the text of the article:
Insert Figure 1 Here
The Production Editor will place the image based on the text flow and page layout of the article.
Illustrations: Illustrations and graphic material should be submitted in scanner-ready or computer-readable
form (gif, jpg or tiff). If it is absolutely impossible to submit scanned images, photographic prints and photocop-
ies may be submitted. All photocopies, even copies of black and white illustrations, should be copied on a color
copy machine, as they have a higher resolution than standard black and white copiers. Tables should be word
processed and saved as a separate file on the disk.
References: References should be included in the text in Author Date format (Jones, 1998). References Cited
should be listed at the end of the article in a separate section titled REFERENCES CITED. Citations should be
listed alphabetically and written in Author Date style. References to web sites should be written:
Author’s Last Name, First Name, Month, Day & Year Updated. Title of the web site. (Date site ac-
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Editing: The editors reserve the right to make minor copy-editing changes.
Acceptance of manuscripts: The WAML Information Bulletin editors reserve the right to accept or reject
articles.
Book, Atlas & Media Reviews
Atlas and book reviews and reviews of digital cartographic products, software and data are welcome. Contact
the Atlas & Book Review Editor, Kathy Rankin or the IB Editor. For more information on atlas and book re-
views, see the instructions for reviewers in the Book Review section of the Information Bulletin.
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Contribution Guidelines for News & Notes
News & Notes contains information on: Benchmarks (major events related to people or Map Libraries, specifi-
cally map library events in or about the principal region), Canadian News, Cataloging News, Conferences and
Classes, Digital Spatial Data, Employment, General News, Internet Resources, New Publications and carto-
graphic materials, Periodical Articles and news from US Federal, State and Local Government agencies related
to map librarianship and the principal region. Submit items to the News & Notes Editor or the appropriate State
or Province editor at any time for inclusion in WAML News & Notes (N & N).
N & N is a monthly publication that is compiled and posted on the WAML web site at http://www.waml.org. The
N & N Editor appreciates receiving contributions via e-mail, but will accept regular mail as well. Please flag
time-sensitive items in the subject line. Back issues of N & N can be viewed on the WAML Web site. Selected
N & N items also appear in the Information Bulletin. Potential sources for news items include: communica-
tion with colleagues, listservs (please acknowledge original author and list), Web sites (use search engines to
search for maps, atlases, cartography, geospatial data, GIS and your state, county or city), automated notification
services, journals and newspapers, vendor publisher and agency catalogs, newsletters and conference announce-
ments.
N & N includes the regular feature “New Mapping of Western North America.” Submit citations for new print
and digital maps and atlases of the Western United States and Canadian Provinces to Ken Rockwell, New Map-
ping Editor. Include ordering information if possible.
Information Bulletin and Electronic News & Notes
EDITORIAL STAFF
News & Notes Editor New Mapping of Western North Photo Essay Editor
Cynthia Jahns America Editor Ross Togashi
Head, Maps Unit Ken Rockwell Map Collection
Science & Engineering Library Marriott Library University of Hawaii Libraries
Univ. of California-Santa Cruz University of Utah 2550 The Mall
1156 High St. Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Honolulu, HI 96822
Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1078 ken.rockwell@library.utah.edu (808) 956-6199
(831) 459-3187 Fax (808) 956-5968
cjahns@ctas.ucsc.edu rtogashi@hawaii.edu
Information Bulletin Editor
Matthew Parsons
Atlas & Book Review Editor Map Collection and Cartographic Editorial Advisor and
Jon Jablonski Information Services Unit Micrographics/Technology Editor
MAP/GIS Librarian Univ. of Washington Libraries Larry Cruse
Knight Library Document Center University Library, C075P
Box 352900
University of Oregon UC San Diego
Seattle, WA 98195 La Jolla, CA 92093-0175
Eugene, OR 97403-1299
(541)-346-3051 Phone: (206) 543-9392 (619) 534-1248
jonjab@uoregon.edu parsonsm@u.washington.edu Fax (619) 534-7548
Larry_Cruse@UCSDLIBRARY.
ucsd.edu
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State and Province Editors
State and Province Editors have volunteered to be especially vigilant for news, notes and ideas for features
and will accept contributions for their state or province at any time and forward them for publication.
Alaska Editor Hawaii/Pacific Rim Editor Utah Editor
John Kawula Riley Moffat Peter L. Kraus
Government Documents & Map Division of Learning Resources University of Utah
Librarian Brigham Young University J. Willard Marriott Library
Rasmuson Library Box 1966 Government Documents
University of Alaska Laie, HI 96762 295 S 1500 E
Fairbanks, AK 99775-6800 (808) 293-3850 Salt Lake City, UT 84112
ffjdk@uaf.edu Fax (808) 293-3877 801-581-8394 (work)
moffatr@byuh.edu 801-585-3464 (fax)
Arizona Editor
Dale Steele Oregon Editor Washington State Editor
Arizona Dept of Transportation Jon Jablonski Matthew Parsons
Map/GIS Librarian Map Librarian
British Columbia Editor Documents Center Univ. of Washington Libraries
Tim Ross University of Oregon
Map Collection and Cartographic
Map Librarian Eugene, OR 97403-1299
Univ. of British Columbia Library (541) 346-3051 Information Services Unit
1956 Main Mall jonjab@uoregon.edu Box 352900
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 Seattle WA 98195
(604) 822-6191 Nevada Editor (206) 543-9392
Voice Mail (604) 822-2231 Linda Newman parsonsm@u.washington.edu
Fax (604) 822-3335 DeLaMare Library/MS 262
timross@unixg.ubc.ca University of Nevada Editor vacancies:
Reno, NV 89557 Alberta, California Idaho, Mon-
Colorado Editor (775) 784-6945 ext. 20 tana, New Mexico, Wyoming
Christopher Thiry Fax (775) 784-6949
Map Librarian lnewman@unr.edu
Arthur Lakes Library
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401-1887
(303) 273-3697
Fax (303) 273-3199
cthiry@mines.edu
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Lists for 2006/07 Membership Year
Committees and Representatives
Executive Board Membership/Hospitality Com- Continuing Education Committee
President -- Wendie Helms mittee: Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Chair
Vice President/President Elect -- Carol Doyle (2002- ) (2005- )
Mary Douglass Suzanne Taylor (2005- ) Mary Douglass (2005- )
Secretary -- Greg Armento Yvonne Wilson, Chair (2002- ) Matthew Parsons (2005- )
Treasurer -- Barbara Gasman Nominating Committee Kathy Rankin (2005- )
Past President -- Mabel Suzuki Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Chair (2005 Anne Zald (2005- )
Appointees - 2006) Representatives/Liaisons
Archivist -- Julie Sweetkind- Anne Zald (2006- ) To AACCCM -- Mary Larsgaard
Singer, (2000- ) Need additional members (1992- )
Business Manager -- Julie Hoff Publications Advisory Committee To ACMLA -- Tim Ross (1991- )
(2002- ) (PAC): To ALA/MAGERT –
Subscription Manager -- Jim David Deckelbaum, Chair (1999- ) Kathy Rankin (2004-)
O’Donnell, (1997- ) David Allen (2004 - ) To CCISA – Linda Zellmer (1999- )
Webmaster -- Katie Lage (2006- ) Barbara Gasman (2004 - ) To CUAC --
Membership Manager -- Christopher Riley Moffat (2004 - ) Katie Lage (2005 - )
Thiry, (2005 - ) Linda Newman (2004- ) Gary Fitzpatrick (2005- )
Ex Officio: To GSIS -- Linda Newman (2002- )
Matthew Parsons, IB Ed./Prod. Ed. To IFLA --
(2003 - ) Dorothy McGarry (2002- )
To SLA/G&M -- Dorothy McGarry
(2005- )
Announcements:
WAML Spring Meeting 2007
The days for this meeting have been shifted from WAML’s usual Thursday/Friday meeting days to Friday/
Saturday, because it is a joint meeting with the California Map Society. The early bird dinner will be Thurs-
day and the field trip will be on Sunday.
The joint meeting will take place on Saturday with a full slate of talks and hopefully a display of some of the
maps held at the Huntington.
LOCATION: Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA
DATES: February 15-18, 2007
COHOSTS: Jim O’Donnell (California Institute of Technology) and Bill Warren (California Map Society)
MORE INFORMATION: http://www.waml.org/meetings.html
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WAML Fall 2006 Meeting
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
Program, Attendees,
and Minutes
PROGRAM:
Grand Canyon” 10:15-11:15 am --“Climate
Presenter: Tom Gushue Control of Lake Powell Lim-
nology”
Wednesday, Sept. 13 11:15 am-12:15 pm -- “Digitiza- Presenter: Susan Hueftle
tion Projects at NAU”
1:00 pm -- Exec. Board Meet- Presenter: Todd Welch 11:15 am-12:15 pm -- USGS
ing, President’s Room NAU Astrogeology Presentations
Special Collections 12:15-1:30 pm -- Lunch on Mars Mapping, Planetary
Nomenclature, and RPIF
5:00-7:00 pm -- Early Bird 1:30-3:00 pm -- Workshop – “In- Presenter: Deborah Soltesz
BBQ, Thorpe Park troduction to Geographic Explo-
ration Systems: Google Earth” 12:15-1:15 pm -- Lunch
7:30-8:30 pm -- Lowell Obser- Presenter: Kathy Stroud
vatory 1:15-1:30 pm -- Transport to
3:00-3:15 pm -- Refreshment USGS
Thursday, Sept. 14 Break
1:30-2:30 pm -- Astrogeology
8:15-9:00 am -- Registration, 3:15-5:00 pm -- Workshop cont. Tour, USGS Flagstaff
Vendors and Freebies, Kaibab
Room 6:30-8:30 pm -- Banquet – Black 2:30-2:45 pm -- Transport to
Bart’s Steakhouse NAU
9:00-9:15 am -- Welcome Re-
marks and Introduction Friday, Sept. 15 2:45-3:00 pm -- Break
9:15-10:15 am -- “John Wesley 8:15-9:00 am -- Registration, 3:00-4:15 pm -- Business Meet-
Powell, Surveying and Map- Vendors and Freebies, Kaibab ing, Kaibab Room
ping the Grand Canyon” Room
Presenter: Richard Quartaroli 4:15-5:15 pm -- Sounding
9:00-10:00 am -- “The Creation Board, Kaibab Room
10:15-10:30 am -- Refreshment of the Global GIS and Possible
Break Future Directions” Saturday, Sept. 16
Presenter: Trent Hare
10:30-11:15 am -- “Modern-
6:30 am-8:30pm -- Field Trip,
Day Surveying and Mapping 10:00-10:15 am -- Break North Rim of Grand Canyon
along the Colorado River in
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Transportation Wendie Helms reminded all
JOHN STEVENS Las Vegas, NV present to send their reports to
MURIEL STRICKLAND San Diego, CA the secretary for the minutes
ATTENDEES: KATHLEEN STROUD Univ. of Califor-
and to the Julie Sweetkind
nia, Davis
MABEL SUZUKI University of Hawaii Singer for our electronic ar-
- Manoa chives.
GREG ARMENTO California State
University - Long Beach YVONNE WILSON UC Irvine
Officers’ Reports
SUSAN BEARD NAU Cline Library
Sylvia Bender California Energy The Secretary
Commission
JANET COLLINS Western Washing- MINUTES: Greg Armento, being new to
this office had no previous
ton University
DAVID DECKELBAUM report. A package of elections
University of California - Los procedures (mailing labels, past
Exec. Board Meeting Minutes
Angeles ballots, etc.) from the previous
Sept. 13, 2006, President’s
MARY DOUGLASS Seattle Public secretary Kathy Stroud is being
Library Room, NAU Special Collections
mailed to him.
BARBARA GASMAN Novacell Tech-
nologies Present: Executive Board Of- The Treasurer
MIRIAM GLANZ Arizona State Uni- ficers (Wendie Helms, President; Barbara Gasman reported that
versity Mary Douglass, Vice President/ the treasury is in good shape.
DAVID GUNTHER Santa Fe RR (re-
President Elect; Mabel Suzuki, We have $18,641 in checking
tired)
Past President; Barbara Gas- and $10,641 in savings.
R. LEE HADDEN Topographic Engi-
neering Center man, Treasurer; Greg Armento,
Secretary). Others present: Julie Business Manager
SUE HAFFNER CSU Fresno
BARBARA HANER UCLS (Emeritus Hoff, Business Manager; Jim Julie Hoff submitted a business
Librarian) O’Donnell, Subscription Man- finance report for the period of
WENDIE HELMS University of Cali- ager; Yvonne Wilson, Hospitality May 2006-Sept. 2006. There
fornia - Riverside Committee; David Deckelbaum were a total of 8 Occasional
JULIE HOFF Arizona State Library Papers sold with #10, Riley
and Ken Rockwell, Publications
& Archives Moffat’s Topo Index selling 4.
JANE INGALLS Stanford University Advisory Committee; Katie
Lage, Web Committee; Cynthia There was $216 in OP sales for
CYNTHIA JAHNS University of Cali-
fornia - Santa Cruz Jahns, News and Notes Edi- this period. $196.50 was re-
KATIE LAGE University of Colorado tor; Kathy Rankin, Continuing ceived for book orders, and $10
at Boulder Education Committee; Dorothy in postage fees was received.
DIANE LIGHTWOOD Parametrix, Inc. McGarry (Postage fees come from nomi-
DOROTHY MCGARRY University of nal charge Business Manager
California - Los Angeles Meeting began 1:15 p.m. with adds for processing OP orders).
LINDA NEWMAN Univ. of Nevada, welcomes by Richard Quartaroli Total deposits to the WAML
Reno
and Todd Welch of NAU. treasury were $206.50. Expen-
JIM O’DONNELL Caltech
President Wendie Helms thanked ditures of $58.50 were for pay-
KATHERINE RANKIN University of Ne-
vada - Las Vegas NAU for the use of the stately ments outstanding and $7.40
KEN ROCKWELL University of Utah meeting room. for postage was incurred.
TIM ROSS Univ. of British Columbia
DEBORAH SCHAEFFER CSU Los An- Janet Collins, the meetings Subscription Manager
geles organizer, gave us a run down of Jim O’Donnell passed out his
EMILY SCHILLER UCLA logistics and meeting places. subscriptions report. WAML
DALE STEELE Arizona Dept. of has 137 IB subscriptions for
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Vol. 37, up from 132 last year. to be on the 18th. It is being has been named Chair of the
Forty-eight subscriptions have coordinated with the Califor- ad hoc Standing Rules and
been renewed as of 9/11/06. nia Map Society Meeting. Jim Procedures Committee with
The report also had a geo- O’Donnell is the contact person. Wendie Helms, Julie Sweet-
graphic breakdown of subscrip- The fall 2007 meeting will be kind –Singer, Chris Thiry and
tions by country. A deposit held from October 24-27 at the Mabel Suzuki.
of $1777 will be given to the Denver Public Library. Chris
treasurer during this WAML Thiry is the organizer. Spring Publications Advisory Com-
meeting. 2008 will be in Las Vegas, likely mittee
during the end of the first week David Deckelbaum and Ken
Information Bulletin Editor of March at the Las Vegas Clark Rockwell both reported. The
Mathew Parsons was not pres- County Public Library. There committee is continuing work
ent but delivered a report read will be a field trip to Death Val- on a prototype IB cumulative
by Wendie Helms. He is work- ley. Kathy Rankin is the orga- index. They are working on
ing with Jenny Stone Mui- nizer. Fall 2008 is tentatively nomenclature on the index. The
lenberg, the original WAML. slated for UC San Diego and work is divided among three
org registrant to transfer the spring 2009 will be at the Uni- members of the committee,
WAML.org domain over from versity of Utah. Ken Rockwell including Matthew Parsons.
her. She has it until 2010. is organizing. Fall 2009 is being Committee is also working to
The process of switching this planned for Yosemite. A commit- digitize OP10, Map Index to
domain has begun and Matt is tee composed of Cynthia Jahns, Topographic Quadrangles of
working with Jenny. Matt will Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Linda the United States, 1882-1940.
keep the Board up to date on Newman, and Kathy Stroud will David asks whether it should
this. The July 2006 IB went out be organizing this meeting. be on a CD. He noted that the
on August 10. The next issue proposed product is not dynam-
will be November 2006. If Past President ic, only a scanned PDF item.
you have anything you wish to Mabel Suzuki submitted a writ-
contribute to the IB, please get ten report. She has continued to Continuing Education Com-
it to Matt by early October. The work on the job descriptions for mittee
new Media Mail rate is $1.59, WAML officers, appointees and Mary Douglass and Kathy
up from $1.42. This increased liaisons. When approved, she Rankin opened a general
cost went into effect with the would like to have the descrip- discussion on pacing and rota-
March 2006 issue. tions issued in the IB as well as tion of 1) workshops and 2)
on the WAML web page. She guided discussion groups at
Vice President-President needs reviewers to go over the future WAML meetings. They
Elect descriptions. She received two proposed one type in the fall
Mary Douglass presented cur- letters of thanks from recipients and the other in spring. Gen-
rent status of future meetings. of Hurricane Katrina assistance. eral consensus from those in
Individual organizers added The State Museum of Louisiana room is that this would be a
their comments. The next and the Jackson Military Bar- good idea, but one left up to
WAML Meeting is February racks sent notes of thanks for the discretion of the committee.
15-17, 2007 with the Execu- their receipt of $250 each. These Mary suggested that in spring
tive Board and other prelimi- notes will be forwarded to the 2007 there be “guided breakout
nary meetings at Caltech on WAML archives. Mabel also sessions and a likely workshop
Thursday and Friday and the assisted Wendie in the presiden- in fall 2007. The committee
programs at the Huntington on tial transition process. Cynthia will produce a list of potential
Saturday. The field trip is likely Jahns, immediate past treasurer, workshops.
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Subscriptions Manager, after 12 new members. The mem-
Web Committee some discussion, the Executive bership drive cost $300. He
Katie Lage proposed that the Board MSP to raise the hono- noted that sending out renewal
Ad Hoc Web Committee be rariums awarded to the Business notices imbedded in Fall Meet-
raised to a standing committee. Manager and Subscription Man- ing registration forms worked
Wendie indicated we should ager from $250 to $300, noting well but he needs to be kept up
check old minutes to verify the that this is now equivalent to with who paid in this way so
status of this proposal. Secre- the honorarium received by the he does not duplicate effort. He
tary Armento produced minutes Book Review Editor. It was also has received queries regarding
from the July IB indicating that MSP by the Executive Board to credit card payments. He thinks
this had been proposed but not establish an honorarium for the possibly a PayPal set up might
acted upon. It was then MSP by Webmaster. This is set at $300. be better. The Executive Board
the Board that the Ad Hoc Web There was also discussion about discussed the pros and cons of
Committee be made a stand- an honorarium for the News & this and tabled discussion of
ing committee. Katie noted the Notes editor, but no decision was the PayPal option until next
committee’s progress in updat- made at this meeting. Because of meeting. Some of the “cons
ing, changing and redesign- the extra work and responsibili- related to the security of funds
ing the WAML website. Katie ties demanded of the Information and the “bite” PayPal takes out
noted that this new standing Bulletin Editor, this honorarium in service fees.
committee is in need of 1) a is set at $1000 and has not
permanent webmaster and 2) Chris notes that we have 4 “ex-
changed at this meeting.
a permanent News and Notes changes” with GeoAbstracts,
Editor. Wendie Helms will Hospitality Committee the National Diet Library of
put out an announcement for Yvonne Wilson had no report. Japan, USGS (Menlo Park) and
volunteers. USGS (Reston). He recom-
Book Review Editor mends that these “exchanges”
News and Notes Editor Jon Jablonski was not present be continued.” Wendie will
Cynthia Jahns reports that but sent a brief written report. follow up with Chris as to what
she would like to complete He’s finishing up his first book these exchanges entail and
her temporary assignment as review column. He’s soliciting what we get out of it.
editor. She is asking for vol- reviewers for the next column.
unteers to take over the News He’ll be attending WAML next As of the date of his report,
and Notes editorship. Wendie spring and should have more to 9/11/2006, 15 members had
read a note from Page Andrew report then. not yet renewed. Wendie asked
complimenting Cynthia on the Greg to make an announce-
redesign of the News and Notes Membership Manager ment at the Business Meeting
format. Christopher Thiry was not pres- reminding late members to
ent but submitted the following please renew.
Motioned, Seconded and report. WAML has 132 mem-
Passed (MSP) by the BOARD bers, down from previous years Old Business
To Raise Honorariums but even with last year. Of the
WAML IB Scanning Project
In the context of the above 132, 7 are life members, 125 are
See Publications Committee
discussion of the duties of our regular members. Of the 125,
report above.
volunteers, especially those 20 are new members. Chris had
who bear particular responsibil- a recruitment effort to get new WAML Job Descriptions
ity in their assignments such members. He sent out over 375 As reported under Past Pres-
as the Business Manager and membership offers, this netted ident’s report, Mabel passed
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around her WAML position Board and members present based payments on time. Think
descriptions and responsibili- discussed at length the WAML of it as a courtesy to those who
ties for Board. She seeks com- Scanning Clearinghouse and serve.
ments. potential coordination with
MAGERT and GPO map reg- Board adjourned at 4:30 p.m.
Committee for Standing istries: if, how, and when we Greg Armento, Secretary
Rules might coordinate our efforts with
This committee has not met these two other groups. How do
yet. It will meet this fall. we coordinate different registry
standards? Note that WAML Business Meeting and Sound-
Vacancies: WAML state
uses the term “clearinghouse” ing Board
editors, Webmaster, News &
and MAGERT “registry” It had Sept. 14, 2006, Kaibab Room,
Notes
been suggested that CUAC pos- NAU
(Discussed under Web Com-
sibly coordinate at some point.
mittee and News & Notes). Meeting commenced at 3 p.m.
Wendie will raise the topic at the
WAML needs a permanent
membership meeting seeking Our new president, Wendie
webmaster, News and Notes
wider input. She seeks input as Helms introduced herself and
Editor and State editors.
how to represent WAML in this her professional background.
Katrina Related Correspon- matter at CUAC. Members present introduced
dence themselves and their affiliated
Thailand Government Request
See Past President’s report institutions.
for Map Preservation Advice
above.
Wendie reported on some e-mail Officers’ Reports
New Business correspondence she had with a
Thai government official seeking Secretary’s Report
Continuing Education Com- advice on preserving 19th Cen- Greg Armento reported on
mittee proposal: see their tury maps. She sought advice on the Executive Board meeting.
report earlier. This agenda item how to handle this. We basically On behalf of Chris Thiry, he
was covered at that time. agreed with the referrals she sug- reminded those present to try to
gested in her correspondence. renew if they have not yet.
News & Notes Change To Bi-
monthly Or Blog Gifts and Service Awards Treasurer’s Report
Cynthia Jahns proposed this Executive Board discussed Barbara Gasman provided her
topic. Consensus of assembled creating guidelines for kinds of report. See Executive Board
(not a Motion) was that the awards for presenters, confer- minutes.
News and Notes could be pre- ence organizers, and exemplary
service to WAML. Suggestion Business Manager’s Report
sented 6 times a year, instead
was to create draft guidelines Julie Hoff handed out a report
of monthly. Board noted that
for input into the conference as given in Executive Board
there is a “News & Notes”
manual. minutes. She noted that orders
weblink and a “News of Note”
are coming in on a regular
column in the IB compiled by
Encouraging Timely Registra- basis.
Linda Zellmer. Wendie will
tion Payments
seek clarification regarding the Subscription Manager’s
The Secretary was asked to kind-
commonality of both. Report
ly suggest to people to be mind-
ful about paying your WAML Jim O’Donnell handed out
WAML Scanning Project
registration and other deadline report as detailed in Executive
Clearinghouse
Board minutes.
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of Utah in Salt Lake City. He Garry
Past President’s Report reports the library is undergo- Mary Larsgaard was not pres-
Mabel Suzuki submitted her ing a renovation but it should ent but Dorothy McGarry
written report as detailed in be completed by then. Cynthia reported. New cataloging rules
Executive Board minutes. She Jahns discussed the fall 2009 are coming for 2008.
asked assembled members to preliminary plans for a meeting
review her WAML position at Yosemite. For ACMLA, Tim Ross
descriptions. Sue Haffner has He reported on the June 2006
offered to help review these de- Wendie Helms put out a call for conference in Ottawa. The
scriptions. Mabel noted again future hosts, post 2009. 2007 conference is in Mon-
the thank yous she received treal.
Mary Douglass is also on the
from New Orleans libraries that
Continuing Education Commit- For NEMO, David Allen
suffered damage from Katrina.
tee and reiterated her proposal He reported that NEMO has
Both letters noted gratitude for
to rotate 1) workshops and 2) become more active as of late.
the $250 each they received
guided discussion groups at It will be meeting in NYC in
for the substantial damage
future WAML meetings. early June.
incurred.
Committee Reports For MAGERT, Kathy
Vice President, President
Rankin
Elect Report Publications Committee The MAGERT scanned maps
Mary Douglass reported on up- David Deckelbaum discussed registry is almost ready to go.
coming plans for future WAML the committee’s continuing work The Geo Tech/GIS Discussion
meetings. See Executive Board on scanning Occasional Paper Group is developing standards
minutes for dates and locations. 10, “Map Index to Topographic for scanning maps. The Educa-
She passed the discussion Quadrangles of the United tion Committee is developing
over to upcoming hosts. Jim States, 1882-1940” by Riley classes in map librarianship
O’Donnell discussed his pre- Moffat. He asked whether it can including map cataloging and
liminary plans for the Spring be saleable as an online product. is working with the library
Meeting 2007 at Caltech and David will hand out a few copies schools on this.
the Huntington Library in Pasa- CD-Rom copies to members to
dena. There will be the “early test out. The committee is also MAGERT was one of the
bird” reception on Thursday working on an index to the IB. sponsors for a day and a half
February 15th with the Execu- He offered the suggestion that cataloging of cartographic ma-
tive Board and other gatherings maybe we could contract out for terials preconference that was
following on the 16th and 17th. someone to do it. taught by Paige Andrew, Susan
The programs will be at the Moore, and Mary Larsgaard.
Huntington on Saturday. The Web Committee MAGERT also presented
field trip will probably be on Katie Lage reported that the Web programs on Google Earth and
Sunday the 18th at the Hunting- redesign is complete. They are GIS services in libraries and
ton Gardens, noting that the working on completing the up- on the proposal to add coordi-
President’s Day holiday fol- date to the News and Notes sec- nates to authority records for
lows. Kathy Rankin described tion for the website. She thanked geographic areas. Fred Musto,
the March 2008 meeting in Las Cynthia Jahns for her improved who has been editor of the
Vegas with a probable field trip News and Notes site. new books and atlases column
to Death Valley. Ken Rockwell in Base Line for a number
Liaison Reports
noted his scheduled meeting of years and is now stepping
for spring 2009 at University For AACCCM, Dorothy Mc- down, was the recipient of the
WAML Fall 2006 Meeting & CUAC Minuttes 11WAML Information Bulletin 38(1) November 2006
MAGERT honors award at the was in Seoul, South Korea in Joseph Aufmuth, to meet prior
reception on Friday night. August. Upcoming meetings are to CUAC. If this meeting takes
slated for Durban, South Africa, place, Wendie would like input
For ALA in 2007, MAGERT as to how to represent WAML’s
August 2007, Québec, Canada,
is sponsoring a preconference interests at the meeting. Should
August 2008 and Milan, Italy,
on cataloging pre-twentieth- WAML merge or coordinate
August 2009.
century maps. It will be held its clearinghouse into the
at the Geography and Maps Old Business registries? Should CUAC be
Division of the Library of Con- a governing “council” for the
gress. Nancy Kandoian will Wendie Helms asked for volun-
registries?
be one of the presenters for the teers for WAML webmaster and
workshop. MAGERT will also News & Notes editor. We also Members present suggested the
present programs on map col- need state editors, particularly idea of a west coast version of
lection security and on federal for California. the “Future of Maps” as was
cartographers. There will be a sponsored by CUAC in March
New Business
tour of the Library of Congress 2005 in Washington DC.
and of the Naval Observatory. News & Notes
At the ALA annual conference Thank You to Janet Collins
New format was discussed with
in Anaheim in 2008, MAGERT Wendie presented our Meeting
much positive feedback from
will present programs on tech- organizer, Janet Collins with
members.
nology and on map cataloging. a gift certificate for her hard
Scanning Projects work in organizing this pro-
For CUAC, Katie Lage Wendie Helms started discussion gram and meeting. Gift certifi-
She noted that last meeting on scanning projects. WAML cates were also presented to the
was in May 2006. The CUAC initiated the Scanning Clear- co-hosts, Richard Quartaroli,
minutes have been approved inghouse after the WAML CSU and Todd Welch.
and are on the CUAC website Chico meeting in spring 2004.
and they will be in the Novem- Sounding Board
WAML noted the substantial
ber IB. Depository news: The efforts of CSU Chico’s Special “Clearinghouse/Registry”
Scientific Investigations series Collections to digitize USGS Coordination
should be coming out again on topographic quadrangles. The The Sounding Board session
depository status. Katie noted WAML leadership thought it was dominated a thoughtful
that CUAC sent a letter stress- wise to start a “clearinghouse” discussion on who, if anyone
ing the importance of EPA of such projects so we all knew should coordinate efforts by
libraries and urging the EPA what was out there, and to avoid WAML, MAGERT, GPO and
not to close them. duplication of effort. MAGERT other agencies to set up web
and recently GPO have started sites that identify map digi-
For GSIS, Linda Newman
their own scanning “registries” tization projects. CUAC as a
She briefly mentioned the
of a similar nature. Recently potential coordinating body
upcoming meeting in Philadel-
the proposal has been made was discussed at length. Some
phia in late October. She also
amongst map library groups to members spoke in support of
encouraged WAML members
merge or coordinate the three a CUAC coordinating role,
to stay on a few days in Denver
clearinghouses or registries in but others had concerns about
to attend GSA/GSIS meetings
some manner. Wendie will ask ongoing maintenance of the
after the WAML Meeting.
chairs of other map associations registries. Janet Collins up-
For IFLA, Dorothy McGarry if they want to accept the invita- dated us on CUAC’s role as
She reported that the last IFLA tion of the co-chair of CUAC, an intermediary and that it
12 WAML Fall 2006 Meeting & CUAC MinutesWAML Information Bulletin 38(1) November 2006
was not necessarily set up as like to do in the way of work-
a managing organization. She shops in the future. Here were
indicated that, in her opinion, some suggestions:
the purpose of CUAC is to
serve the organizations that Types of workshops:
its members represent, not the Hands on demonstrations
opposite. Other members noted Workshops on types of maps
that IFLA could be a possible Reference service skills
coordinator of registries. In Map acquisition techniques
Janet thought it might get too Management of digital files
complicated if the manage- Types of internet map viewers
ment got any bigger than the Emerging technology
CUAC sized organization. Tim Overview of map related deposi-
Ross noted that Canada is do- tory programs
ing a lot of map digitizing but Who would present:
there is no registry at this time. WAML members
The biggest contributor to the Outside experts
WAML Clearinghouse at pres- Campus experts
ent is the David Rumsey Col- It was noted that presenting a
lection. Mary Douglass urged workshop on a travel authoriza-
librarians to get the word out tion was a good way to get travel
that there are these clearing- support from your institution.
house/registries for our benefit
and that we should encourage Also the option of breakout
participation. Julie Hoff sug- sessions was discussed. It was
gested that we pause for a mo- generally agreed that the topic of
ment to let the clearinghouse/ a workshop or breakout session
registries develop more and see should be tightly focused.
what direction they take be-
fore we attempt to coordinate Meeting was adjourned at 5:30
or merge. Katie Lage urged p.m.
more OCLC based cataloging
of these efforts. Wendie sug- Greg Armento, Secretary
gests that at the future CUAC
meeting members take an extra
day on the agenda to discuss
clearinghouse/registries. There
was general consensus that at
the next CUAC meeting there
should be brainstorming on this
issue to see what might need to
be done. Please e-mail Wendie
Helms with other suggestions.
Continuing Education
Mary Douglass started a dis-
cussion on what WAML would
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Cartographic Users Advisory Council
2006 Annual Agency Meeting Minutes
May 4th-5th, 2006
George Washington Carver Center/USDA
CUAC Members: Bob Bewley, Senior Geographer, 1:15—Welcome, introduc-
Bureau of Land Management tions, (remarks by Christine
Joe Aufmuth, University of Clarke, NCRS)
Florida, MAGERT Carol Brandt, Geospatial Informa- 1:30-- Remote sensing/
Michael Fry, University of tion Program Manager, Bureau of NRCS, George Rohaley
Maryland, WAML Transportation Statistics/DOT 2:00--USFS, Susan DeLost
Katie Lage, University of Colo- 2:30--NARA, Brett Abrams
rado at Boulder, WAML Gregory J Allord, Science Informa- 3:00--BLM, Bob Bewley
Mary McInroy, University of tion and Education Office, Geologi- 3:30, closing remarks and
Iowa, GODORT cal Survey thank yous to agencies
Clara P. McLeod, Washington
University, GSIS Michael P. McDermott, National Friday, May 5, 2006, begin-
Bruce Obenhaus, Virginia Coordinator, Natural Science Net- ning 9AM
Tech, SLA Social Science Divi- work, Geological Survey
sion, G&M
Anita Oser, SLA, Social William R. “Bill” Effland, Soil 9:00-- Welcome, introduc-
Science Division, G&M Scientist, USDA/NRCS Soil Survey tions, last-minute prepara-
Daniel T. Seldin, Indiana Uni- Division tions
versity, NACIS 9:15-- BTS, Carol Brandt
Joy Suh, George Mason Uni- Tim Trainor, Assistant Division 9:45—USGS, Greg Allord
versity, GODORT Chief for Geographic Areas and and Mike McDermott
Thelma Thompson, University Cartographic Data Products, Geog- 10:30-10:45--break
of New Hampshire, NEMO raphy Division 10:45--Soil Survey/NRCS,
Linda Zellmer, Indiana Univer- Bill Effland
sity, GSIS Robin L. Haun-Mohamed, Direc- 11:30--CENSUS, Tim Trainor
tor, Collection Mgmt & Preservation, LUNCH—USDA cafeteria
Agency Presenters: GPO 1:00--GPO, Robin L. Haun-
Ted Preibe, Director, Library Plan- Mohamed and Ted Priebe
Christine Clarke, introductory ning & Development, GPO 1:45--LC/G&M, John Hébert
remarks 2:30, closing remarks and
Dr. John R. Hébert, Chief, Geog- thank yous to agencies
George Rohaley, National raphy and Map Division, Library of
Remote Sensing Leader, USDA- Congress Introductory Session Remarks:
NRCS Christine Clarke, NCRS.
Submitted Written Agency Re-
Susan J. DeLost, Program Man- port: Department of Energy Chris begins by explaining that
ager, Geospatial Services, USDA she is with the Natural Resources
Forest Service Conservation Service (NRCS),
Federal Agency Presenta- one of roughly 27 organizational
Dr. Brett L. Abrams, Electronic
tions Schedule units in the USDA. USDA has
Records Archivist (NARA) and over 100,000 staff and NRCS,
Chair of the Historical Data Work- Thursday PM, 4 May, begin- Farm and Service Agency and
ing Group/FGDC ning 1:15 PM Rural Development are consid-
ered the 3 field based agencies,
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meaning that they have staff in appropriate sources, outside users offices). The Service Centers
almost every county in the nation. are now redirected to the authori- have converted from using analog
NRCS changed its name from the tative data source. In doing so, data to mostly using digital data
Soil Conservation Service in 1994, USDA does not incur distribution today. The centers have ArcGIS
and before that they were the Soil responsibilities for data of which we and use agency business-oriented
Erosion Service (1935) under the are not the authoritative source and tools called “Customer Service
DOI. Their purpose at that time users are ensured the most current Toolkit.” Orthoimagery is used as
was to mediate and minimize information. They only turned off a base map for all GIS data layers
the negative impacts of the dust those layers for which they were at the Service Centers.
bowl and wind erosion. Today, the not the authoritative source for the
agency focuses on land manage- data sets (for example, data kept by Most of the imagery NCRS uses
ment, conservation, and working USGS). comes from airborne system (film
with farmers, ranchers, and land or digital). Typically the Service
owners at the local field level. Question: Is there state-wide aerial Centers prefer airborne images
They have approximately 150 GIS photography available on the USDA with natural color because it is
specialists in the field. Some staff site? visually more relatable to actual
are district conservationists that Answer: The most current aerial ground situations. Recently, how-
are using a Customer Service Tool photography available from USDA ever, USDA contractors are flying
kit (CST), which is an application can be found at http://www.apfo. more imagery with digital sensors.
built on top of ESRI products like usda.gov/ We have been told that digital
ArcMap. This is a user friendly imagery cannot be used in court,
interface that can be used in all (submitted by Clara McLeod) attorneys account for a small
fifty states to develop farm plans, demand for film images.
view DOQs, or aerial photos. George Rohaley, NRCS-Remote
Other GIS users work more with Sensing Leader Along with Foreign Agricultural
raw data and support CST users. Service (FAS), Farm Service
The agency is also involved in the George Rohaley’s talk, “Use of Agency (FSA), and Forest Service
Federal Geographic Data Com- Remote Sensing in USDA and (FS), NCRS is one of top four
mittee (FGDC) Geo-spatial One NRCS,” included a brief overview of imagery users in USDA. (Oth-
Stop, and the Geo-spatial Line of the use of remote sensing in NRCS, ers include National Agricultural
Business (GeoLOB). imagery sources, applications of Statistical Service (NASS), Risk
imagery, USDA image archive Management Agency (RMA), Agri-
Brief Q&A period: and distribution, and USDA NAIP cultural Research Service (ARS),
1. Do you think that the govern- (National Agricultural Imagery Pro- and Animal and Plant Health
ment will go to a more centralized gram), which is one of the biggest Inspection Service (APHIS).)
funding system? imagery programs in USDA. He
Answer: That’s a possibility, also discussed smaller projects that Applications of imagery within
but it’s a challenge to compare are specific for NRCS and showed USDA include agricultural com-
GIS activities across disciplines. more than 100 slides in the presen- petitiveness, agro-terrorism, base
Christine welcomes help in build- tation. map, carbon synthesis, compli-
ing a foundation for GIS use with ance, base area, crop monitor-
standard data sets and infrastruc- The mission of National Resource ing, crop condition assessment,
ture. Conservation Service (NRCS) is soil survey, disaster monitoring,
to help people conserve, maintain, drought monitoring, earning warn-
Question: Has the USDA Geo- and improve our natural resources ing, environmental monitoring, fire
spatial Data Gateway limited ac- and environment. In short, NRCS suppression, homeland security,
cess to data to non .gov users? mission is “helping people help the resource inventory, invasive spe-
Answer: Yes, The Gateway was land.” cies, land use conversion, and
developed to deliver authorita- yield monitoring. NRCS focuses
tive data to USDA agency field Most of NRCS’s acquired imagery on soil survey, crop monitoring,
staff. Due to the convenience of comes from three sources: Satel- environmental monitoring, and
the data access via the Gateway, lites, High and Low Altitude Airborne resource inventory.
non federal use increased sub- cameras and digital sensors. NRCS
stantially over time. To ensure acquires imagery for it’s people who Satellite images that NRCS uses
non-federal users acquired the work on the ground at the USDA primarily come by FAS. FAS has
most up to date data from the county service centers (about 3000 contracted with companies such
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as Digital Globe, Earthsat, Eurim- three years. Most of the funding 15:1 compression ratio instead of
age, GeoEye, Space Imaging, (71 %) goes to USDA NAIP. See the 50:1 ratio that was available
and SPOT to get world wide the Aerial Photography Field Of- in 2004/2005. It is available 30
images. NRCS can gain access fice (APFO) Web site (http://www. days after acquisition via USDA
to FAS images (Rohaley showed apfo.usda.gov) for image status, Geospatial Data Gateway (http://
several slides for 03, 04, 05 contracting services, and any other gdw.apfo.usda.gov/naip/viewer).
LANDSAT acquisitions showing information. The program has over 23 million
good coverage of US area and 06 ($23,795,354) in 2005 in terms of
AWIFs acquisition). The FAS Web USDA Small Area Photography funding. The program has been
site, Crop Explorer (http://www. Contracting: additionally successful because
pedcad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplor- NRCS has been involved with a of federal and state cooperative
er), provides image and data ser- small area photography and aerial partnerships. Each year NAIP
vices for weather, soil moisture, photographic contracting project. has a set of states for contract-
crop, and vegetation conditions. This project is a five-year contract ing. Why do we acquire so much
One can pick up a region, browse, to acquire very high resolution ortho imagery now? Technology
and download MODIS images. imagery (1:4000 to 1:15,840 scale) and contracting have made the
These satellite images (250-m) under a indefinite delivery-indefinite process price less expensive--the
are in JPEG 2000 and GeoTiff quantity contract and for specific average cost for 1 meter ortho
formats and can be imported into task orders in smaller areas such as rectified ($ 171.85 per DOQQ)
GIS. 2006 acquisition will include National Resource Inventory (NRI) and 2 meter rectified ($158.82 per
commercial satellite imagery sites, which acquires imagery reso- DOQQ). Costs are more afford-
for Pacific region (Hawaii) and lution that results in a ground re- able because vendors are allowed
Alaska. These satellite images solving distance of 2.5 inches. Why to resell “derived” or value added
will be accessible to the public at is such high resolution required? material after contract products.
a degraded resolution. Each year, NRI acquires approxi- NAIP contract awards have been
mately 70,000 sites a quarter acre increased from 9 million to 30 mil-
USDA Image Archive and Distri- in size to do as inventory. In the lion from 2003 to 2006. There are
bution: past, inventory was site specific, but many more subcontractors willing
All aerial photographs and digital now it is done primarily by photo- to do this work for NAIP. In 2005,
imagery acquired by NRCS must graphic interpretation techniques. most of the country was covered
be contracted by the USDA Aerial NRCS has specific photographic (in comparison to a mere about
Photography Field Office (APFO). periods, mostly in growing seasons. 5 states in the past). There are
Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, The NRCS contractors update their states that are covered by 1 or 2
APFO provides contracting sup- projects status every two or three meter resolution. FSA acquires
port for the department’s aerial days through the web. Data col- 2 meter digital ortho images for
photography needs. It has one of lection will be done using remote an entire county and delivery is
the largest collections of historical sensing techniques at three remote required within 30 days. NRCS
aerial photos dating back to the sensing laboratories: Greensboro, primarily focuses on acquiring
mid 1950’s. It provides a central- NC, Fort Worth, TX, and Portland images in 1 meter states through
ized photo and imagery archive OR. During FY 05, six vendors were partnerships. Those states that
library (55,000 rolls of film and awarded to cover small areas such have old images are given priority
84,000 photo indices). The system as NRI photo stations (9”x 9” pho- for updating by NRCS. Trend is
has been automated, cataloged, tos). There are 71,514 NRI photo changing from film to digital sen-
and is easily retrievable. Custom locations in FY 06. sors (it is believed 50 % are cov-
scanning of historical images are ered by digital in 2006 and 60 %
available. Films, photos, CDs, National Agricultural Imagery Pro- will be in 2008). Rohaley showed
and DVDs are stored in controlled gram (NAIP): some of NAIP mosaic imagery to
environments. This program is USDA’s largest show the improved accuracy by
imagery program, acquiring 1 and changed resolution (1 or 2 meter)
USDA Aerial Contract Awards: 2 meter natural color digital ortho and compression ratio from 2004
Most of these image acquisi- imagery during the agricultural to 2005. Compressed mosaics
tions are done based on contract growing season (summer). NAIP are available to the public through
awards. FY2005 contract awards updates 1 meter resolution images USDA Data Gateway, but higher
are over 30 million ($ 33,455,497). on a 5 year cycle. Digital Com- resolution digital data is only avail-
The contract awards have sub- pressed County Mosaic (CCM) has able by order.
stantially increased in the last improved image quality due to a
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Distribution links for future infor- more than 1,000 people per square “USDA Forest Service Maps
mation and data include: mile) every 3 years with natural and Other Related Products”
• USDA Aerial Photography color. Annual total estimated budget on Thursday May 4, 2006. She
Field Office (http://gdw.apfo. for production, quality control, and began by giving an overview of
usda.gov/naip/viewer) for archive and distribution, is $114 mil- the land managed by the USFS
NAIP and USDA Aerial Imag- lion. Expected taxpayer savings by and the mission of the USFS.
ery. replacing the existing local, state, Maps and geospatial data sup-
• USDA Data Gateway (http:// tribal and federal programs with one port the activities of the USFS in a
datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov) consistent national program is $159 number of areas, including: forest
for data products packaged by million. planning, forest health protec-
county. tion, watershed restoration, fire
• Foreign Agricultural Crop Questions/discussion: prevention & management, and
Explorer (http://www.pecad. CUAC: What happened to National recreation. The USFS participates
fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer) for High Altitude Photography (NHAP) in interagency coordination with
global image, weather, etc. program, DOQs, and its creation the FGDC and partners with the
with one meter accuracy? USGS, the BLM, and other or-
Digital Elevation Model (DEM): ganizations (federal, tribal, state,
NRCS has contracted to acquire The NHAP program was replaced local) to increase efficiency and
DEM data. Most DEM data is in by National Aerial Photography provide additional services and
the public domain. Digital eleva- Program (NAPP), which was admin- products to its customers.
tion is used for land use planning istrated by USGS. NAPP is now
and soil surveys. When combined gone. Maps have been an integral part
with digital ortho imagery, digital NAPP produced the original source of the USFS activities since the
elevation allows updating soil of ortho images based on 1:40K agency’s establishment in 1905
survey mapping on laptops rather scale and mostly black & white. and are a vital part of managing
than from the ground (soil survey However, NRCS and most of USDA the national forests and grass-
and DEM will be covered in detail do not need NAPP product. NRCS, lands. Maps were initially pro-
at tomorrow’s presentation). USDA, and Farm Service Agency duced at the local unit level, with
also need natural color images. little standardization or consis-
Imagery for the Nation Proposal: Therefore, NAPP went to NAIP. The tency. Since the mid-1970’s, with
Everyone wants imagery: local, soil survey program still needs leaf- the establishment of the USFS’
regional, state, tribal, and federal off images such as black and white, Geospatial Service and Technol-
governments, as well as the pri- but can get them from archives at ogy Center (GSTC), the emphasis
vate sector. There is a proposal the USDA Aerial Field Office. on standardization has increased,
for three distinct programs under while still allowing flexibility for
imagery for the nation: one meter, CUAC: Is there any back up system local needs. The GSTC works
one foot, and six-inch acquisition for the CD-Rom product in case closely with the agency’s national
program--a sort of infrastructure. there is damage the CDs stored at forest units and Regional Offices
The one meter program, which the USDA Aerial Field Office in Salt to produce map products, geospa-
will be managed by USDA, would Lake City? tial data and related applications.
enhance the existing NAIP with The GSTC and the Remote Sens-
the cover of the lower 48 states CDs and fire wire drives are used ing Applications Center (RSAC)
annually (Hawaii every 3 years; to deliver NAIP items. Now they are units of the USFS, co-located in
Alaska over 5 years) with natural on a server. The products come in Salt Lake City, Utah, are leaders
color. The one foot program will multiple copies, and states which in providing geospatial information
be managed by USGS, covering use the images have back-up cop- products, training, and techni-
everything east of the Mississippi ies. Film life span is 75 years old. cal support to the agency and its
River and counties west of the many partners. Susan distributed
Mississippi River with popula- (Submitted by Joy Suh) a CD entitled “A Legacy of For-
tions more than 25 people/square est Service Mapping” to all CUAC
miles, every 3 years with natural Susan J. DeLost, Program Man- members, which gives more infor-
color. The six-inch program, which ager, Geospatial Services, USDA mation about this history.
will be managed by USGS, will Forest Service
cover all urbanized areas per U.S. Susan showed the traditional
Census Bureau definitions (more Susan DeLost, Geospatial Services mapping products produced by
than 50,000 populations with Program Manager, spoke about the USFS: general maps, forest
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