[gis_info] Geoscience FIT Zoom meeting Sept 9 or 10

[David Percy]

Hello Oregon GIS Practitioners, I hope this finds you well during these
trying times... I look forward to seeing you in person sometime...
:-)

Ok, so it's *really *time to have a Geoscience FIT meeting!
(Sorry for the confusion on scheduling this week, quarantine time got me a
little scrambled...)

So, here's the background:
We have a statewide Framework of data themes, one of which is the
Geoscience Theme.
The main portal is here <https://www.oregon.gov/geo/Pages/fit.aspx>
Some other examples are Admin Boundaries, and Hydrography. The Framework
Implementation Team (FIT) is charged with implementing standards and data
stewardship.

The Geoscience theme consists of Geology and Soils. There has also been
discussion about adding a Geomorphology layer.

*The Geology and Soils themes are both in need of updates to their
standards*. The new Soils standard was published and announced on the FIT
website and this email list one month ago, which according to our rules is
the amount of time it needs to be available for comment. Please address
comments to Whityn Owen, the Soils workgroup team lead. Barring objections
we will approve this new standard at the upcoming meeting.

The Oregon Geology (OGDC) database has been converted to a new national
standard promoted by the USGS and the American Association of
State Geologists (AASG). This standard was originally introduced in 2009 as
NCGMP09 (National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program) and, after
extensive review and modification, was renamed GeMS (Geologic Mapping
Schema) and released for broad usage in 2018. Both Lina Ma, the former
Geoscience Framework FIT lead, and myself have worked on the standard with
the USGS and AASG.
The main conversion of the Oregon Geology database was completed during the
2017-2019 cycle by DOGAMI, funded through the Framework Development program.

I am currently updating the Geology standard and will get it published on
the website for comment soon. Since this is a major revision we will want
to have it open for comment for 30 days. We can discuss it at the upcoming
meeting.

So, let's have a meeting during the week of Sept 7, on Wed or Thurs, here's
a poll <https://doodle.com/poll/85vpdyzxfdp2x82d>[1]to pick a time. If you
would like to be involved, but these times don't work, please send me an
email and I'll try to work something out with you.

Thanks for reading and participating,
Percy

[1] https://doodle.com/poll/85vpdyzxfdp2x82d
-- 
David Percy ("Percy"), M.S.
-Geospatial Data Manager
-Web Map Wrangler
-GIS Instructor
Portland State University Geology
-geology.pdx.edu
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