Background

The Sanborn Map Compa-ny, Pelham, New York, was established in the late 1860s to survey and map business districts across the United States. The maps, which were produced every 6 – 9 years, provided insurance compa-nies with detailed information about the locations and char-acteristics of businesses and dwellings from both small to

large town USA. With the help of these maps, insurance providers could better assess the potential liability of spe-cific properties.

Today many of these maps are available in a digital for-mat through the Library of Congress and university li-braries. The Kansas Collec-tion of the Kenneth Spencer Library at the University of Kansas contains digitized

Sanborn maps for 241 Kan-sas towns and cities from 1883 to 1922 (more recent maps are also available, but they are most likely subject to copyright protections that do not apply to maps older than 1923). Here is a link to these maps.

As some of you know, I live in St. Charles, Missouri,

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Fall 2014 Kansas GIS and Next Generation 9-1-1, Part 2

Feature articles: NexGen 911

(Pt. 2 of 2) Registering His-

toric Sanborn Maps (Pt. 1 of 2)

Robot Eyes in the Skies (Final)

Conference Info

Inside this issue:

From your President

2

Robot Eyes in the Skies

2-3

KAM Board and Committee News

6

Meet the Member

6

Agency Profile—WaterOne

8

KAM Conference Highlights

11

Conference Ses-sion Information

12

Quarterly Newsletter of Kansas Association of Mappers

Metes & BoundsMetes & BoundsMetes & Bounds Volume 28, Issue 3

NG9-1-1 is the updating of the 9-1-1 infrastructure to improve emergency commu-nications services. The Kan-sas 911 Coordinating Council has started to implement their Kansas NG911 Strategic Plan to help transition statewide 9-1-1 services to NG9-1-1. Part of that plan is the GIS Pro-gram, the effort to assemble and maintain a shared GIS database to support NG9-1-1 call routing.

This program and NG9-1-1 in general will have an indeli-ble impact on GIS in Kansas. This article is the second in a series intended to help the GIS professionals in Kansas understand NG9-1-1 and their role in it.

The Kansas NG9-1-1 GIS Data Model

At the heart of the GIS Program is the Kansas NG9-1-1 Data Model which sets the uniform structure that GIS data must meet to be integrated into the NG9-1-1 call routing system. Most of the details of the Data Model are actually set by the Nation-al Emergency Number Asso-ciation (NENA) in their GIS data standards for NG9-1-1. The hardware and software needed to operate NG9-1-1 is designed to work with data in that NENA format, so it is essential that NG9-1-1 GIS data in Kansas complies with it. There are a few additions to the NENA standards in the Kansas Data Model in-

tended to make aggregating all the data into one statewide database an easier process.

For most local agencies, the biggest difference between their current data and the Data Model is the number of attributes. For example, the Road Centerline layer in the Data Model has over forty attributes. Not all of them have to be populated, but the list can be intimidating at first glance. Each attribute has a recommended field name; however, local data stewards can use whatever name they wish as long as they provide a crosswalk in their metadata between the name they chose and the one in the standard.

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Kansas NG9-1-1 GIS Subcommittee

Registering Historic Sanborn Maps, Part I

Tim Hensley, Esri Solution Engineer

Using ArcMap® and Adobe Photoshop®

Conference Map Gallery News

13

KAM ‘fridge 15

Ask Uncle Lambert

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Hello, KAM members!

It’s that time of year again - Fall. Foot-ball games. School. Cooler weather. And best of all, KAM Conference is coming! The 29th Annual Conference will be held at the Four Points Sheraton in Manhat-tan this year, from October 7th through October 10th. This year’s theme is “Lead, Learn, Share: From Local to Global.” All of the conference information can be found on our website, at http://www.kansasmappers.org/ConfInfo There are lots of sessions, classes and social events planned, so plan to join us – registration is already open!

With the arrival of the KAM Confer-ence, comes the usual requests for nomi-nations. Who do you know that is de-serving of one of the KAM awards? Who do you know that might be a good leader and would be interested in being

on the Executive Board? Please make a point to nominate your fellow KAM members for these positions/honors. KAM thrives on the activities of its members – both in leadership and in sharing of their talents. (By the way – doesn’t that fit with the theme for the KAM Conference?)

In July, KAM sponsored a Basics of Pro-gramming in Python class, held in Salina. For those of you who didn’t know, Kris-ten Jordan is an awesome Python teach-er! In spite of a last minute venue change – a classroom wasn’t where you wanted to be in July without air conditioning – Kristen was able to keep us all enter-tained and teach us a thing or two at the same time. This was the second year that KAM offered a class during the summer, and we are hoping to continue the trend. To that end, if any of you have topics

that you would like to see clas-ses on, please let us know.

That’s all for now. Hope to see all of you at K A M Conference. Don’t forget your favorite Kansas college attire for Wednesday evening, and a Thanksgiving-themed non-perishable food item for donation to the food pantry!

Till next time,

Gail

From Your President

portant that they be addressed. The pub-lic should understand exactly what drone technology means for them, and the legal issues surrounding these systems should be explored so that individual privacy is respected.

Some of these privacy concerns arose from public safety applications. Police forces across the nation have begun em-ploying small unmanned aircraft systems for tactical and surveillance purposes. Unmanned aircraft could be a boon to police: for example, a police team could

use a camera-equipped rotary-winged drone to find a concealed gunman, lo-cate hostages, or follow a fleeing suspect. The public has express alarm, however, that law enforcement could be watching an individual at home, where there is an expectation of privacy, especially when the monitoring is conducted without a warrant.

Another privacy concern is airborne spying by neighbors with recreational unmanned aircraft. Hobbyists could

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Challenges: The integration of un-manned aircraft into U.S. commercial airspace

However, a num-ber of legal and privacy concerns have arisen. These objections will not derail the introduc-tion of unmanned aircraft systems into civilian air-space, but it is im-

...airspace rights are

now defined as that

airspace above their

land that

landowners could

reasonably expect to

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Robot Eyes in the Skies (Final Part (IV of IV) Submitted via IAAO by: George Donatello, TEAM Consulting

hover outside a window and peer inside like a Peeping Tom. Although there are existing laws protecting citizens from peepers on the ground, these laws appear vague on certain questions. For example, is surveillance legal if the unmanned air-craft remains over the property of the pilot? And how low can unmanned air-craft legally fly?

In fact, trespass laws were originally defined such that landowners had rights to their airspace extending “to the heav-ens.” However, airspace rights are now defined as that airspace above their land that landowners could reasonably expect to use. Thus unmanned aircraft and their pilots now have to be careful and not to operate the aircraft too close to private property, though what that exactly means is not legally clear—it could be

anywhere up to 500 feet. This is the ma-jor entanglement of unmanned aircraft systems with issues of property rights and privacy.

Lawmakers have been sensitive to these concerns. Many states have passed laws that would require police to obtain a war-rant before deploying unmanned aircraft systems, even for a search-and-rescue mission. A highly restrictive bill proposed in the New Hampshire House of Repre-sentatives would prohibit anyone from using an unmanned aircraft to take pho-tos of an individual's property. The State of Virginia went even further by banning drones in the state’s civilian airspace out-right.

Citizen’s privacy concerns about the operation of unmanned aircraft systems

are real, and there should be laws protecting individ-uals form unwant-ed snooping. How-ever, heavy-handed measures threaten to quash the many positive and unob-trusive applications for unmanned air-craft. Assessors should be alert to the legal status of data collected by unmanned aircraft s y s t e m s a n d should work to-ward implementing laws that would allow aerial imag-ing for legal pur-poses.

The Future of Property Assessment

Property assessment by unmanned aircraft systems is on the cusp of reality. Drones will allow assessors to do their jobs more frequently, efficiently, and effectively. Nevertheless, a variety of operational and legal issues remain to be resolved so that unmanned aircraft can be safely integrated with manned aircraft in the national airspace. As is the case with all revolutionary technologies, laws and regulations are struggling to keep up with the technology’s potential and is possibilities for misuse. But the very po-tential of unmanned aircraft systems technology lies in its challenge to the status quo. Unmanned aircraft have al-ready changed the way we think about aerial data collection. The future for un-manned aircraft systems, in fact, is now.

Authors: Ryan Cunningham and Keith Cunning-ham, Ph.D.

Reprinted from:

- IAAO Fair & Equitable magazine

(October 2013) with permission from IAAO

and Christopher Bennett

- Team Consulting News (February 2014)

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Are drones illegal in your state? This map can tell you.

Source: blogs.marketwatch.com

Many of the attributes also have a specif-ic domain, which is a list of valid values for that attribute. If a domain has been defined for an attribute, it is critical that those are the only values stored in that field because the various NG9-1-1 soft-ware systems will be set to recognize only those values.

In order to make it a little easier for everyone to meet the Data Model re-quirements, template geodatabases were created with all the necessary data layers, attributes, domains and spatial relation-ships. There are two templates, one for data in State Plane Kansas, North projec-tion and one for data in State Plane Kan-sas, South. Data currently in other for-mats can be loaded into the templates, and then the template topology and at-

tributes will serve as a guide to get-ting the data fully compliant with NG9-1-1. If there are additional at-tributes that an agency wishes to store, they

can add them to the feature classes in the template before loading the data.

The GIS Enhancement Project – The QA Process

The GIS Enhancement Project is the overall effort to bring existing 911 GIS data into compliance with the national and state NG9-1-1 standards. The pro-ject has three phases: the Gap Analysis where existing local data is compared to the standards; Remediation where the data is edited to the standards by the local GIS staff or by a vendor; and Qual-ity Assurance where the finished data is checked against the standards to be sure that everything is in compliance. Every-one in the state has turned their data in for the Gap Analysis, and almost every-one has already received their results. The last of those results will be returned by early October. Most everyone is in the Remediation phase now and will be headed for the QA phase sometime in the next several months.

(Continued from page 1) The Quality Assurance phase begins when the remediated data is uploaded to Alexander Open Systems (AOS) for re-view. Vendors and local GIS staffs work-ing on data remediation are strongly en-couraged to use the geodatabase tem-plates to submit their data for QA. While the templates are not strictly required, AOS will convert data into them before performing their analysis.

That analysis is a series of tests de-signed to identify any features that do not meet NG9-1-1 requirements. AOS produces a QA report of the specific issues that may need to be addressed with each feature listed and the concern about it explained. Then the report and the data are reviewed by members of the GIS Subcommittee. It is their job to identify which issues need to be correct-ed, which issues only need comments from the vendor or GIS staff and which issues do not need to be addressed at all. Then the report is returned to the vendor or GIS staff that submitted it, and they make the needed corrections and com-ments and resubmit. Once all of the is-sues have been resolved, the Quality As-surance phase is over. Then the work of maintaining the data begins.

Ongoing Maintenance and Available Training

For NG9-1-1 emergency call routing to work, the GIS data in the system must be both accurate and current. That means the data must be updated with new addresses and roads as soon as pos-sible. Because of this, the process of on-going maintenance of the NG91-1-1 GIS data really begins immediately after QA ends. Currently, the GIS Subcommittee is working on the process for aggregation of all of this data and on the way updates will get submitted. The agencies that finish QA before all of that is ready should make edits to their data as they come in and plan to submit them when the processes are finalized.

To help local data stewards understand the maintenance of NG9-1-1 compliant data and the GIS Program as a whole, Ongoing Maintenance training is being provided. The training is free and covers topics including a primer on 9-1-1 for GIS people, a review of the GIS Pro-

gram and the Data Model, and some maintenance tips that may make keeping the data up to date a little easier. The first class was held in Wichita on August 27. Another will be held in Manhattan just before the KAM conference.

A class is planned in Hays around the end of October, and the date and loca-tion for it will be announced soon. De-pending on demand, additional classes may be held in Salina and Topeka. Keep an eye out for the training announce-ments and consider registering as soon as they get come in. The Wichita and Man-hattan classes filled in just a couple of days. The classes are being recorded, and the recordings will be posted online.

There is other training available online too. There are how-to videos about working with the template geodatabases that cover topics like loading data into the template feature classes and working with the topology. The presentations given at the regional Kick-Off meetings were also recorded and those recordings are available for review.

More Information Everything about the NG9-1-1 GIS

Program is available at the “Important Links” below. There you can find the videos, upcoming training dates and even download links for the Data Model doc-ument and the documents referenced in it. The GIS Subcommittee is trying to keep communication as open as possible about the GIS Program, and these links are the center of that effort. They are updated regularly, so please check them often. And if you have a question about the project, send an email to Eileen Bat-tles with DASC at battles@kgs.ku.edu or to Sherry Massey a t smas-sey@dkcoks.org.

Important Links The Next Generation 911 page at

DASC has the Kansas NG9-1-1 GIS Data Model document, a variety of workshop and training recordings, announcements, and info materials.

The GIS Enhancement Project page at the Kansas 911 Coordinating Council’s website has much of the same information as the DASC site, but it contains more spe-cific information on the project including contracts and timelines.

A class is planned

in Hays around the

end of October, and

the date and

location for it will

be announced soon.

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With our exciting 2014 KAM Conference quickly approach-ing, it’s time to nominate KAM members or their projects for awards.

The award categories are:

Kansas Association of Mappers Lifetime Achievement Award

Outstanding Mapping Project

KAM Prestigious Cartographer / GIS Professional

Most Valuable KAM Member

Check out the criteria for each award and the nomination form on the KAM website at www.kansasmappers.org/awards. The deadline for nominations is September 15th.

Awards will be presented at the KAM Confer-ence in October.

Hope to see you all there!

Lisa Olson, KM, Awards Committee Chairperson

KAM Committee News

Meet the Member Greetings, my name is Jason Lee Barton. I was born in San Diego, California and was raised in Fort Ord, California until my father got out of the service. We moved to Wilson County, Kansas and shortly after, I finished high school and joined the Marine Corps.

After eight years of service, I went to Independence Community College and received my Associ-ates of Science degree. After college, I had an opportunity to work for Montgomery County as the ‘Ag and Mapping guy’ in the Appraisers office.

I have a wife and four kids, and a small hobby farm we play around with in our spare time.

ARE YOU in the 16% of membership who hold a professional designation granted by the Kansas Association of Mappers? Did you know that this is the last year to earn your maintenance points, for this 5-year cycle, or you could lose that designation?

There are 16 people who will lose their elite status by the end of 2014 if they do not turn in their maintenance points. That will reduce our designees to only 9% of the organiza-tion. If you have attended classes, conferences, gave presen-tations, or written articles that are mapping/GIS related you have earned maintenance points. But you cannot get credit for those points if you don't submit them.

Check the status of your points on the KAM website and submit earned points on our website. If you don't currently hold a designation and would like to earn a professional designation, you can submit your application online as well. Need help or have questions? Contact the Designation Committee!

Pam Cannon, PKM, Designation Committee

Your 2014 KAM Board thanks all KAM Members for a great year! Remember that all

approved Board Meeting minutes are available on our website, www.kansasmappers.org.

KAM needs your help—be sure to sign up for one or more committee at the Conference.

Here is a list of our committees:

Awards Legislative/Standards

Designations Education

Membership Nomination

Program (Conference) Publication

Need to know more about what a committee does? Check out our website and click on

‘Committee Responsibilities’! The more the merrier!

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Be sure to nominate a KAM colleague for a position on the 2015 KAM Board!

Nominations will be taken through the begin-

ning of the Business Meeting at our Conference.

http://solutions.seilerinst.com

What’s your bread & butter GIS func-tion? WaterOne is an independent public water utility. We’ve been proudly serving the Johnson County, Kansas area since 1957. Every day, over 400,000 customers rely on WaterOne to provide fresh, clean water on demand. It’s a responsibility we deliver on. Our passion is water because water touches everything we care about: family, health, safety, and community. We serve our community by bringing award-winning water to their homes, businesses, and public places. We’re a public utility by customers, for customers. WaterOne was born from our customers’ desire for great water, relia-bly. In 1957, unsatisfied with the value and ser-vice from their water provider, residents in the Mission area came together to buy out the Kansas City Suburban Water Compa-ny. They reincorporated as public water provider Water District No. 1 of Johnson County. Today, we go by WaterOne and we’ve grown to service most of JoCo. When we began, we were supplying up to 5 million gallons per day (mgd). Today, we have the capacity to make 200mgd to meet our customers’ needs. That’s a lot of water! We’re able to grow to meet the demand because we follow our Master Plan, a com-prehensive road map for expansion and sustainability. We make continual invest-ments in infrastructure at the right time so a plentiful supply of delicious water is availa-ble for our customers. And we’re thinking about the future, care-fully managing the utility so that our ser-vices are here for the next generation. At WaterOne, we believe in the meaningful

work of producing clean water because we’re making it for our customers. WaterOne is not a tax-supported utility. As a non-profit, public utility, rates and fees are used to cover the cost of operations and infrastructure. WaterOne sets its rates based on a cost of service analysis. WaterOne has 350 dedicated employees, 272 square miles of service area, and over 2,600 miles of infrastructure. How many GIS employees do you have? We have a total of 13 GIS-CAD-related employees split between GIS/IT and Map-ping & Drafting:

GIS/IT – A GIS Manager, a System Support Specialist, a GIS Pro-grammer/Analyst, two GIS Ana-lysts, and a Business Analyst

Mapping & Drafting – A Supervisor, three GIS Editors, two CAD Technicians, and a Construction Inspector/GIS Editor

What GIS or mapping activities do you do on a regular basis? Our core efforts revolve around editing data daily by digitizing new project infor-mation from the field, analysis of GIS and SAP data, database management, asset management (main extensions and replace-ments, capital improvement projects, leak repairs, and more). Our data basics include water mains, valves, hydrants, service con-nections and everything in between, totaling nearly a half-million assets currently drawn in our GIS production database. We work on help desk tickets as required, which can include ad-hoc map requests, software installations/implementations, etc. The GIS/IT section primarily works on data analysis. We have built or have had

built, several internal-only web apps – a couple for our annual hydrant and valve audits and ‘Pipes’, our enterprise app for end users. We consume Johnson County AIMS base-maps and layers including orthophotog-raphy. Many of our field crews have Arc-Reader on their laptops using these layers as well. Some crews collect field data using GPS (new services/construction) once field work is completed; this data is used to draw new assets into GIS. A routing application was recently devel-oped to guide our staff around the district in the most efficient way possible. Those staff members drop off “friendly notices” of bill non-payment and complete service shutoff and turn-on work orders. We are constantly documenting our processes and procedures, both new and old, as new pro-jects are always requested and new applica-tions are always needed. What software do you use? We use the entire ESRI-GIS product suite including ArcReader, including many exten-sions (InfoWater, Publisher, Data Reviewer, Network Analyst, Spatial Analyst). We uti-lize SAP for our work order management, custom-built internal web apps, and Trim-ble’s Pathfinder and Terrasync software for GPS collection and conversion. We are developing mobile apps to be used on iPads in the near future. What kinds of programming languages do you use? Python, .NET, SQL, HTML5, JavaScript, XML

Agency Profile—WaterOne

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which is part of the St. Louis metropoli-tan area. St. Charles, established in 1765, is the third-oldest city in Missouri and one of the oldest cities west of the Mis-sissippi River. It has a very rich history. For example, the Lewis and Clark Expe-dition stopped in St. Charles in 1804 just a few meters away from the town’s Main Street. Some buildings that lined Main Street then are still standing today.

Recently, I became aware of the digital Sanborn Map collection at the University of Missouri Library. Given the historic nature of these maps and given the his-tory of St. Charles, I decided to see what I could do to bring these old maps back to life using modern technology. The results have been fascinating, to say the least.

Ultimately, I wanted to create a map product using ArcGIS Online that tour-

(Continued from page 1) Getting Started

The first thing I did was to locate the oldest of the Sanborn Maps (link is here) for St. Charles, and download the largest files available.

The oldest maps for St. Charles were from 1886, and most files were ~6 MB in size, with dimensions of 91 inches wide by 108 inches high (or if you pre-fer, 6,588 px by 7,835 px). On the next page is a screen shot of the download process; you can get a feel for how large this file is by comparing the Windows dialog to a typical mapped building.

ists and citizens could view on a Smart Phone or Tablet device, find their loca-tion using GPS and then discover what a building had been used for over 100 years ago. So, I set out to download digi-tal Sanborn Maps (the older the better), register the maps to a current aerial pho-to using tools in ArcMap and then con-sume the result in a Web Map within ArcGIS Online. Once in a Web Map, a transparency could be applied to the Sanborn Map to reveal an underlying modern aerial photo.

Here is a link for one possible imple-mentation of the final product.

I want to thank and acknowledge Art Crawford in the Esri St. Louis Office for suggesting the idea of registering these maps in the first place. It was my idea to leverage ArcGIS Online as I have, but I probably never would have done this if it wasn’t for his original suggestion.

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Size in this case matters because you want the user to be able to still read the map details on a very small screen. But, there’s more to making the map readable that I’ll discuss in Part 2 of this article.

Sanborn Map collections are very well organized. Each map sheet is assigned a number, with the index map being sheet #1, as shown below.

Sheet #2 is the pink sheet at the North end of the index map, and the Southern pink sheet is #6. There may also be vari-ous inset maps, such as the two in the lower-right hand corner of the index sheet. Once the map sheets were down-loaded, I started working on an ap-proach for getting the maps into real-world coordinates.

A Learning Process

The inset maps prompted me to first approach the Sanborn Maps using Ado-be Photoshop. Photoshop was great for removing and, as needed, rotating the inset maps. But, it also proved very use-ful in getting the best registration results, which I’ll discuss further in Part 2.

I also started using the Georeferencing tools in ArcMap to register the digital

available, it was relatively large scale and I didn’t have to do anything to create or maintain it. But, I eventually took anoth-er approach here, too.

The General Process

What follows is a description of the general process of Georeferencing a ras-ter image in ArcMap – in this case a Sanborn Map sheet. Above is a screen shot that shows the start of the process.

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map sheets to a current aerial photo. This alignment process is relatively easy to do, but some areas within the Sanborn Maps were more challenging than others. I was interested in a high degree of accuracy with the final prod-uct, so I reevaluated my approach on several occasions.

Another challenge turned out to be what aerial photography to use. Initially, I used aerial photography from ArcGIS Online. This was a logical choice be-cause I could rely on it always being

NEW THIS YEAR!

Wednesday Thanksgiving Food Drive

Kansas College Spirit Night

Thursday College Student Day

UNconference

Conference at a Glance Tuesday, October 7th Pre-Conference Workshops Wednesday, October 8th Opening Session – Keynote –

COL Tony Hofmann PMP, Ret, Stantec Consulting

KAM Business Meeting Luncheon with State Agency Up-

dates Presentation Sessions I, II, III Exhibitor Reception New KAM Member Reception

Thursday, October 9th College Student Day Presentation Sessions IV, V, VI UNconference Presentation Sessions VII & VIII NG9-1-1 Round Table Social at Flint Hills Discovery

Center Friday, October 10th Closing Session – Keynote – Mike

Dulin, USACE-Kansas City Emergency Response Exercise KAM Business Meeting Final Giveaway Drawing

The 2014 KAM Conference is right around the corner! The Program Committee has worked very hard over the last

twelve (12) months to put together a GREAT conference for YOU! We have secured an outstanding group of presenters to

present the topics chosen by YOU our valuable members! Along with the presentation sessions we have two (2) out-standing keynotes to both open and close the conference.

Both individuals have responded to major disasters across the United States and will be engaging and interesting! To accom-pany these outstanding key notes we will have an emergency response exercise on Friday designed to bring us all together

From Local to Global.

We have pumped up the activities during the exhibitor’s re-ception where you can show off your favorite Kansas College

team pride. Wear your favorite shirt, hat, pants, jewelry or whatever else you might have! Along with showing our Kan-

sas College team pride we will have a Thanksgiving food drive to benefit a local food bank right in Manhattan. When you bring you non-perishable food items you will have your

choice of Kansas College to support. Let’s see which Kansas College is most supported by Kansas Mappers!

Our social will be held at the Flint Hills Discovery Center in

downtown Manhattan. This fantastic facility has exhibits high-lighting the Flint Hills from wind to water to forest. During our

visit the Flint Hills FORCES II: Our Town, Our Fort, Our University will explore the period between 1917 and 1963 where Manhattan, Fort Riley and Kansas State University

were intertwined. Transportation will be provided before to bring our members downtown for dinner prior to the social.

Light snacks and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided—also, a cash bar with locally brewed beer (and other drinks).

Pre-Conference Workshops GIS for Appraisers GIS on the Web

Working with Geodatabases

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Plus others coming in every day!

How to be a Metadata Rock Star, Megan Due-ver & Ellen Urton, Kansas State University Li-brary

Working with Metadata in ArcGIS for Desktop, To be determined

GeoMentoring and an Enterprise GIS, Dan Rose, WaterOne

Kansas NG9-1-1 GIS Program, Sherry Massey, Dickinson County and Ken Nelson, Data Access and Support Center

Advanced Linear Referencing System, To be determined, Kansas Department of Transporta-tion

ArcGIS Online (without having Server), Jared Tremblay, City of Manhattan

Floodplain Mapping in Kansas, Tara Lanzrath and Dane Bailey, Kansas Department of Agricul-ture – Division of Water Resources

Creating an AgUse Questionnaire, Pam Dun-ham, Butler County

Flood Mapping of Tuttle Creek, Brian Rast, US Army Corps of Engineers, SilverBacks

Online Flood Mapping, Jared Tremblay, City of Manhattan

GIS Desktop Tips & Tricks, Bryce Hirschman, Douglas County

ArcGIS API for JavaScript – The future of Web GIS, Steven Graf, Alexander Open Systems

ORKA & Orion, Kristen Jordan, Data Access and Support Center

PVD, Melissa Crane, Kansas Department of Rev-enue, PVD

Kansas NG911 Ortho Imagery Program, Randy Mayden, Surdex & Tammy Peterson, Val-tus

Saving Time with ArcPy, Jay Guarneri, City of Manhattan

Geodatabase Basics, To be determined Getting Hired for Your Ideal GIS Job, Jesse

Smith, Kansas Division of Emergency Manage-ment & Jessica Frye, Alexander Open Systems

Download, Configure and Use – Solution Template for Local Government, Dan Haag, Esri

Jefferson County Real Time GIS with ArcGIS GeoEvent Processor, Kirk Webb, Jefferson County

Querying CRS data in SQL, Sherry Massey, Dickinson County

Network Analyst for Maps & Grants, Jared Tremblay, City of Manhattan

ArcGIS Editing Tips & Trick…Save Those Clicks!, Lee Allen, City of Topeka

Tips & Trick for Automating Processes with Model Builder and Python, Micah Seybold, City of Lawrence

Stormwater Data Collection Using a Mobile GIS Application, Alicia Williams, AMEC

Creating Topologically Sound GIS Files, Joan-na Rohlf, AMEC

Missouri’s ARRA Broadband Structures Pro-ject – Putting a Geospatial Point on Every Roof-Lined Structure in Missouri (and – Sepa-rately – in 2 Kansas Counties too!), Mark Due-well, Missouri Spatial Data Information Service (MSDIS)

2014 KAM Conference Presentation Sessions

STILL NEEDED!!!  

Projectors: 7 total Presentations: Utilizing/understanding geodatabases & creating FGDC complaint metadata in ArcGIS Desktop

Map Gallery Submissions

Please contact Jessica Frye (jessica.frye@aos5.com) if you can provide projectors or presentations.

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I added the ArcGIS Online Imagery with Labels as an aerial photo base map.

I zoomed in to an appropriate location on the aerial pho-to.

I dragged and dropped sheet5.jpg (a downloaded Sanborn Map) onto the map.

ArcMap built Pyramids for the image file. Using the Georeferencing dialog I choose Fit To Display

to get both images in view. Now it’s a matter of adding registration links between the

Sanborn Map and the aerial photo.

There are many subtleties to this process. For example, I like to uncheck Auto Adjust until I get at least two registration links established; then, when Auto Adjust is checked, the map will conform nicely to the aerial photo. Further adjustments and registration links will inevitably be needed, but this will give you a good starting point.

The screen shot below illustrates the establishment of a reg-istration link based on the corner of an existing building.

The screen shot in the upper right illustrates the map after Auto Adjust has been applied. A transparency of ~50% has also been applied to the map. The two registration links, 1 and 2, can be seen at the bottom and top of the screen shot, re-spectively.

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Additional adjustments can be made to the registered map by selecting and dragging existing links or by adding registra-tion links. Once the adjustments have been made for an indi-

vidual map sheet, Update Georeferencing is used to make the adjustments permanent, as shown below.

In Part 2 of this article I’ll discuss publishing the Sanborn Maps to ArcGIS Online and some lessons learned for getting the best viewing results.

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1. There are 27 Walnut Creeks in the state. 2. There are more than 600 incorporated towns in the state. 3. Morton County sells the most trout fishing stamps of all the Kansas counties. 4. Fire Station No. 4 in Lawrence, originally a stone barn constructed in 1858, was a station site on the Underground

Railroad. 5. The Hugoton Gas Field is the largest natural gas field in the United States. It underlies all or parts of 10 southwestern

Kansas counties as well as parts of Oklahoma and Texas. The gas field underlies almost 8,500 square miles, an area nearly 5 times as large as the state of Rhode Island.

6. The Kansas Speleological Society has catalogued at least 528 caves in 37 Kansas counties. Comanche County has at least 128 caves and Barber County has at least 117 caves.

7. Kansas has the largest population of wild grouse in North America. The grouse is commonly called the prairie chicken. 8. Milford Reservoir with over 16,000 acres of water is the state's largest lake. The reservoir is located northwest of Junc-

tion City. 9. The Geodetic Center of North America is about 40 miles south of Lebanon at Meade's Ranch. It is the beginning

point of reference for land surveying in North America. When a surveyor checks a property line, he or she is checking the position of property in relation to Meade's Ranch in northwest Kansas.

10. In Italy the city of Milan is 300 miles northwest of Rome. In Kansas, Milan is less than 25 miles northwest of Rome, in Sumner County.

11. Between 1854 and 1866, 34 steamboats paddled up the Kaw River (Kansas River). One made it as far west as Fort Ri-ley.

12. In 1990 Kansas wheat farmers produced enough wheat to make 33 billion loaves of bread, or enough to provide each person on earth with 6 loaves.

13. Holy Cross Shrine in Pfeifer, was known as the 2 Cent Church because the building was built using a 2 cent donation on each bushel of wheat sold by members of the church.

14. Kansas produced a record 492.2 million bushels of wheat in 1997, enough to make 35.9 billion loaves of bread. 15. The American Institute of Baking is located in Manhattan. 16. A 30 foot tall statue of Johnny Kaw stands in Manhattan. The statue represents the importance of the Kansas wheat

farmer. 17. The graham cracker was named after the Reverend Sylvester Graham (1794-1851). He was a Presbyterian minister who

strongly believed in eating whole wheat flour products. 18. The rocks at Rock City are huge sandstone concretions. In an area about the size of two football fields, 200 rocks,

some as large as houses, dot the landscape. There is no other place in the world where there are so many concretions of such giant size.

19. George Washington Carver, the famous botanical scientist who discovered more than 300 products made from the peanut, graduated from high school in Minneapolis in 1885.

20. The First United Methodist Church in Hutchinson was built in 1874 during the time of the grasshopper plagues. The grasshoppers came during the construction of the churches foundation but the pastor continued with the work. As a result, thousands of grasshoppers are mixed into the mortar of the original building's foundation.

21. A hailstone weighing more than one and a half pounds once fell on Coffeyville. 22. The Oregon Trail passed thru six states, including Kansas. There were no Indian attacks reported on the Oregon Trail

as the travelers passed through the state. 23. Russell Springs located in Logan County is known as the Cow Chip Capital of Kansas. 24. The world famous fast-food chain of Pizza Hut restaurants opened its first store in Wichita. 25. Sumner County is known as The Wheat Capital of the World.

Ask Uncle Lambert—Kansas Trivia Answers—Part II

Here are the answers to the Summer Edition’s set of 25 Kansas Trivia Questions – We didn’t have anybody send in their answers this time… If you have a topic you’d like Uncle Lambert to discuss or questions you’d like him to answer, please send an email to KAMappers@gmail.com.

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