Committee Participants

• Adam Purucker, Co-Chair
• Dawn F. McCall, Control Point Associates, Co-Chair

Regions

• Adirondacks – Lower Region – Heather Weller
• Adirondacks – North Country – Eileen Allen, Warren Salo
• Albany – Metro Region – Jason Baum
• Catskill Region – Thomas Hynes
• Central NY Region – TBD
• Long Island Region – Ross Baldwin
• Lower Hudson Valley Region – Doug Schuetz
• New York City Region, GISMO – Alan Leidner
• Rochester, Genesee/Finger Lakes Region (GIS/SIG) – Justin Cole
• Southern Tier Region – William Ostrander
• SYNERGIS – David Jorgensen
• Tug Hill Region – Mickey Dietrich
• Utica/Rome Region – Verne LaClair
• Westchester Region – Ana Hiraldo-Gomez
• Western NY Region – Karyn Tareen

Contact

Mission

The mission of the Regional Committee is to work to improve collaboration, cooperation and mutual support between the State Association and NYS Regional GIS Groups. The NYSGISA recognizes that its regional partners are critical to the success of GIS in the State and understands that by helping to strengthen them, it will also be strengthened.

Achievements

• Regional Committee POCs have been holding telephone webinars to describe their GIS operations, challenges and accomplishments.
• Regional POCs provided valuable in depth interviews as input to the Association’s Emerging GIS project.
• Regional POCs have helped form new regional groups in areas of NYS that were not represented including Catskills, Onondaga/Syracuse and Southern Tier.
• The Regional Committee has produced a NYSGISA resources guide for local government GIS users and managers.

Goals

• Continue to support the growth of Regional groups and to foster communications and collaboration
• Support initiatives coming out of the Emerging GIS project
• Help to identify GIS leaders in all counties and major municipalities across NYS

NYS GIS Association Provides Benefits to Regional GIS User Groups

As part of an ongoing effort to provide tangible benefits to local NYS GIS user groups, the Association has begun offering the use of its “Gold Plan” level Survey Monkey account.  Regional groups can use the enhanced account for any user group related business.

In addition to the functionality offered by the free Survey Monkey accounts, users of the “Gold Plan” also have the ability to create surveys with:

• unlimited questions
• easy exporting, printing and results sharing
• expert templates
• advanced survey logic
• customization, and much more!

Regional groups interested in accessing the NYS GIS Association’s Gold Plan Survey Monkey account can contact the chair of the membership committee for NYS GIS Association for more information.