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The Integrated Cadastral Information Society (ICIS) is a not for profit, public-private partnership between the Provincial Government, Local Government and the major utility companies in BC. Our newsletter keeps you posted on development and opportunities that are available to our membership. Comments or suggestions about this newsletter are always welcome. Drop us a line at info@icisociety.ca.
Barry, Janice, Pete, Ken, Steven and
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Communication: The Ongoing Challenge
By Barry Logan, ICIS General Manager
Communication is one of the keys to success of ICIS. Bringing together data from multiple agencies requires a high degree of coordination, collaboration and organization that at times can be extremely challenging. We recognize the importance of communication and continue to find ways to improve. Two key initiatives are currently underway that we hope will significantly improve communications and, in turn, value to our members; meta-data reporting and an ICIS GIS Community.
Clearly reporting on the data available through ICIS is of tremendous value to all of our members. Recent workshops held on the topic of metadata show that accurate reporting of holdings including currency, accuracy and ownership are extremely important. ICIS is revamping its metadata tracking system to better satisfy the requirements of our membership. Improvements will start to appear within the year.
There is a tremendous resource of knowledge and experience within our ICIS family. The ICIS GIS Community initiative will aim to bring our membership together through forums and other tools to share ideas on the challenges and opportunities that exist within ICIS. It is an opportunity to actively involve our members in the on-going development and improvement of ICIS and its value to our membership.
Bettering communication and interacting with our members is another way to support the ICIS vision of collaborative sharing and integration of spatial data for the economic and social benefit of British Columbia .
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| AddressBC Update
by Peter Flagg |
An AddressBC Governance Committee has been established and met for the first time in May. The Committee members are listed below (those marked with an "*" are current ICIS Board Members):
o Local Government: Jonathan Mark, City of Vancouver, Steven Botham, Fraser - Fort George Regional District*
o ICIS Utilities: Mike Bazowski, SHAW - ICIS Board Member*
o Provincial Government: Kevin Jardine, Ministry of Agriculture & Lands/GeoBC*, (un-named) Ministry of Solicitor General & Public Safety
o Federal Government: Robert Schultz, RCMP
o Non-ICIS: David Hamilton, EComm
The Governance Committee will have authority over all aspects of AddressBC development and operations, including financial control of contributions and expenditures. Legal addendums to the ICIS Data Sharing and Licensing Agreements are being developed for the financial stakeholders. Policy changes to the ICIS Data Store Access Policy will be drafted to articulate requirements local government data contributions. The strategy for an RFP for system development and/or initial data collection is being developed. The Governance Committee meets again June 25th.
A brief brochure about AddressBC is available from ICIS and presentations to local governments or other stakeholders can be arranged. AddressBC now has endorsements from MISA, LGMA, EComm and 911/SPA. If you have any questions about AddressBC please contact a governance committee member or Pete Flagg at ICIS (pflagg@icisociety.ca). |
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Suite 16
1537 Hillside Ave
Victoria, B.C.
V8T 4Y2
250.381.9295
1.866.403.0095
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Rename the ICF and Win!!
Suggest a new name for the Integrated Cadastral Fabric (ICF) and you could win a:
Microsoft Streets and Trips GPS and software (value $100) or
One-year subscription to Google Earth Pro (value of $400) for your organization.
One of the primary objectives of ICIS is to create a common cadastral fabric for the province. The ICF has been the name used to refer to cadastral data that has met the standard to be considered part of a common province-wide fabric. Unfortunately, the name is confusing and is not reflective of its collaborative nature nor does it reflect its ICIS lineage.
We would like a new name that is easier to understand and reflects the vision of ICIS which is to:
". . . encourage collaborative sharing and integration of spatial data for the economic and social benefit of British Columbia"
Please send us your suggestions along with your contact information to info@icisociety.ca by 4:30 PDT, June 30th, 2008 to be eligible.
The ICIS Executive Committee will choose the winning entry in July. In the case of multiple winning entries a draw will be held.
All entries become the property of the Integrated Cadastral Information Society.
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| Recent Datasets
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| Several datasets have been loaded in the past two weeks. Those listed below are the most recent, with their approximate loading date:
SURREY 5/24/2008
RICHMOND 5/24/2008
PENTICTON 5/24/2008
VIEW ROYAL 5/24/2008
THOMSON-NICOLA RD 5/24/2008
OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN RD 5/24/2008
KAMLOOPS 5/24/2008
LANGFORD 5/24/2008
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Annual General Meeting |
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This years Annual General Meeting will be held at:
The Magnolia Hotel
623 Courntey Street
Victoria BC
1-2:30 pm
Proposed changes to the Constitution may be viewed on our website at www.icisociety.ca
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