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To: Jerry Rush who wrote (43)	1/16/1997 6:23:00 PM
From: Ed Ryder	of 731

For anyone interested, here are some brief details from the PaMAGIC conference. I attended the Pennsylvania Mapping & Geographic Information Consortium's video conference yesterday. Six hundred people attended at ten sights throughout the state. My initial impression when I heard of this event was that Pennsylvania must be cutting edge with GIS. That impression was wrong though. Pennsylvania is one of the slackers. This group confirmed that 46 other states already have in place statewide coordinated efforts to create geospatial infrastructures. Our state has suffered a lack of interest in GIS at the top which has resulted in: * no leadership for coordination of GIS-related initiatives; * duplication of efforts; * and lost national influence due to a lack of participation in the National Spatial Data Infrastructure initiative. They showed a breakdown of the 200 people attending the last meeting: * 40 percent represented local governments. * 20 percent represented state and federal agencies. * 30 percent represented businesses. * 7 percent were from academia. * And I missed what the other ones were. What has become apparent to me is there really is a lot of interest in GIS. And this isn't just a nationwide trend. It's global. Our first speaker, after the governor, described how he set Lancaster County up with it's own GIS system. Things didn't go perfectly. He envisions this new "PaMAGIC" group sharing information on information. Mistakes or lessons that one county or municipality learns while implementing their GIS will be shared. The group will provide guidance to municipalities, businesses and others looking to get started in GIS work, but they will avoid competition with universities and vendors in training services. Another benefit of the organization would be to combine buying power and maintain quality standards. Other words mentioned were that a revolution in GIS was underway, that GIS was a resource multiplier, and that Pennsylvania will invest over one billion dollars in GIS over the next ten years. Hmm. Well, it was kind of boring. Their web site is www.pamagic.org Ed Ryder And Jerry, I'm glad I could help. These analyst reports that are expected to come out over the next few weeks should be very interesting. We'll learn more then.

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