This council, authorized by legislation passed in 2009 and reauthorized until June 2015 (SF1270), advises the Minnesota Geospatial Information Office (MnGeo) about issues, policies, priorities, and investments needed to improve services statewide through the coordinated, affordable, reliable, and effective use of geospatial technology. The council must represent a cross-section of organizations that include counties, cities, universities, business, nonprofit organizations, federal and state agencies, tribal government, and other stakeholder groups that benefit from geospatial technology. (The State Government Geospatial Advisory Council focuses on state agency issues.)
Meetings: Held 4 times a year.
The next meeting will be February 29, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.., Blazing Star Room, Ground Floor Centennial Building, 658 Cedar Street, St. Paul, MN 55155 (directions). The remaining 2012 meetings will be: May 30; August 29; November 28.
Videoconferencing is available with at least 48 hours advance notice.All meetings are open to the public.
- February 29, 2012
- November 29, 2011
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes
- Presentation: Spring Aerial Imagery Program, Steve Kloiber and Chris Cialek (14 slides, 2.3 MB, PPTX)
- Additional comments: Geospatial Data Partnership Statement, Christian Christensen, McLeod County (2 p., PDF)
- Update: Business Plan for Statewide Parcel Integration for Minnesota, Fred Logman (2 p., PDF)
- June 30, 2011
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes
- Presentation: Minnesota Geospatial Commons Project Update, Mark Kotz (20 slides, 1.3 MB, PPTX)
- Presentation: Metadata Workgroup Update, Nancy Rader (8 slides, 56K, PPTX)
- March 31, 2011
- Agenda
- Meeting notes
- Video recording of the meeting
- Geocoding RFI draft, geocoding use cases and geocoding FAQs
- Presentation: Geospatial Standards Status and Recommendations to the OET, Chris Cialek (15 slides, 2.1 MB, PPT)
- Creating Standards through the Enterprise Architecture Program
- List of geospatial standards on OET's website
- Legislative status of bills relating to GIS, 3/30/11
- Outreach Committee charter: draft
- Presentation: Imagery for the Nation: Building a successful and effective program, Will Craig (11 slides, 4.8 MB, PPTX)
- Project updates
- Committee/workgroup updates
- NSGIC mid-year summary
- GIS Cloud Services RFI Assessment, Business Case & Recommendation
- December 29, 2010
- Agenda
- Meeting notes
- Video recording of the meeting
- Presentation: Mn/DOT Partnerships, Pete Jenkins (26 slides, 17.7 MB, PPT)
- Presentation: Geocoding Workgroup Brief, Mike Dolbow (15 slides, 1.1 MB, PPTX)
- Project updates
- Committee/workgroup updates
- MnGeo's Year in Review, 2010 Highlights
- CAP grant proposal (final version as submitted; replaces the 12/29/10 discussion draft originally posted)
- September 29, 2010
- Agenda
- Meeting notes
- Video recording of the meeting
- Project updates
- Committee/workgroup updates
- Presentation: Emergency Preparedness Committee, Steve Swazee (45 slides, 22.6 MB, PPT)
- June 30, 2010
- Agenda
- Meeting notes
- Presentation: Minnesota Geospatial Commons Test Implementation, Mark Kotz (14 slides, 282K, PPTX)
- March 31, 2010
- January 7, 2010
- Agenda
- Meeting notes
- Council overview (14 p., 614 K, PDF)
- Project update: LiDAR and orthophotos (13 slides, 4.4 MB, PPTX)
Term of office for current appointed members: Terms expire June 30, 2013
Appointing Authority: State Chief Information Officer
Compensation: NoneMembership: 23
- Members appointed for FY12-13
- 3 State agency representatives
- 1 Mn GIS/LIS Consortium representative
- 1 University of Minnesota representative
- 1 MnSCU representative
- 1 MetroGIS representative
- 1 Metropolitan Council representative
- 1 non-metro regional government representative
- 1 county in the 7-county Twin Cities region representative
- 1 non-Twin Cities region county representative
- 1 city in the 7-county Twin Cities region representative
- 1 non-Twin Cities city representative
- 1 K-12 education organization representative
- 1 Federal agency
- 1 Minnesota tribal government representative
- 1 Minnesota non-profit organization representative
- 2 Minnesota businesses representatives
- 4 At-Large representatives
In addition to the appointed members, the council includes the state chief geospatial information officer as a non-voting, ex-officio member.
Committees and Workgroups: The council is supplemented and supported by work teams and technical committees that had previously functioned under the auspices of the Minnesota Governor’s Council on Geographic Information. Non-council members are welcome and encouraged to participate on committees.