Issue 233 • September/October 2009

IN THIS ISSUE

NEWS
3 President’s Column
5 Dan Parr Remembered
6 Penn State’s Online
Master of GIS Earns
The Association for GIS Professionals “Most Outstanding
Online Program”
Award
8 Bill Garrison Tells Us
a Bit about His Friend

GIS/Geospatial Industry
And Colleague, Ed
Horwood
10 Welcome new urisa
Worldwide Growth Slows members

to 1% in 2009

Industry CEO Sentiment Strongly with the robust 11% compound annual in Europe where investment in GIS/
Upbeat for 2010 and Beyond. growth rate of the past six years would Geospatial technology has been hurt
return in 2010. more severely by the current downturn
North America has not been as as many European governments have
GIS/Geospatial industry worldwide
adversely affected by the downturn cut back their geospatial technology
growth is forecast to slow to 1%, down
as the rest of the world due to the purchases in anticipation of lower tax
from 11% in 2008 and a whopping
on-going needs of homeland security collections.
17.4% in 2007 according to a just re-
and continuing investment in GIS, by Perhaps the most dramatic
leased study by Daratech, Inc., a Cam-
the public sector. Growth in North slowdown in 2009 was in the private
bridge, Massachusetts market research
America is forecast by Daratech to top sector, which is forecast to shrink to
firm. However, industry CEOs inter-
2.1%, more than twice the growth in $1.4 billion, down 0.7% from 2008.
viewed by Daratech were unanimous
Asia Pacific and five times the growth
in their belief that growth consistent
continued on page 4
 Important URISA PRESIDENT
Kathrine Cargo, GISP-Orleans Parish
Communication District
About
Dates to Remember kcargo@911nola.org

PRESIDENT-ELECT
November 16–18, 2009 Cy Smith, GISP-State of Oregon
GIS in Transit Conference cy.smith@state.or.us
St Petersburg, FL
IMMEDIATE PAST-PRESIDENT The Urban and Regional Information
Hilary Perkins, GISP AICP-East-West Gateway Systems Association (URISA) is the
Council of Governments, St. Louis, MO
December 7–11, 2009 hilary.perkins@ewgateway.org premier professional association for
URISA Leadership Academy those involved in improving our urban
Seattle, WA SECRETARY
and regional environments through the
Cynthia Braddock-Boulder County (CO)
Assessor’s Office effective use of information technology.
cbraddock@co.boulder.co.us Professionals in planning, economic
March 8-11, 2010 development, information systems,
14th Annual GIS/CAMA Technologies TREASURER
Conference Greg Babinski, GISP-King County (WA) GIS emergency services, natural resources,
Little Rock, AR Center public works, transportation, and other
greg.babinski@kingcounty.gov departments within state and local
Carl Anderson, GISP-Fulton County (GA) government have depended on URISA
September 28– carl.anderson@vadose.org for professional development and
October 1, 2010 educational needs since 1963. Through
48th Annual URISA Conference & Clare Brown, GISP-Montgomery Watson
its international, national and local
Exposition Harza, New Orleans, LA
clare.brown@us.mwhglobal.com chapter operations, URISA serves nearly
Orlando, FL
8,000 professionals.
David DiBiase, GISP-Penn State University
dibiase@psu.edu

Michael W Lovett, GISP-CDM Camp Dresser URISA Headquarters

& McKee, Maitland, FL 1460 Renaissance Drive, Suite 305
lovettm@cdm.com Park Ridge, IL 60068
Phone: 847‑824‑6300
Sandra Majewski, GISP-Las Vegas Metro
Police Dept Fax: 847‑824‑6363
s6370m@lvmpd.com info@urisa.org
http://www.urisa.org
Twyla McDermott, GISP-City of Charlotte (NC)
tmcdermott@ci.charlotte.nc.us

Karen RM Stewart, GISP-ESRI Canada, Wendy Nelson

Vancouver, BC Executive Director
kstewart@esricanada.com wnelson@urisa.org

Article submissions, calendar items

and industry news should be sent to
wnelson@urisa.org

2 September/October 2009 • URISA News

 President’s Column
Reflections on a URISA Presidential Year
By Hilary E. H. Perkins, GISP, AICP
Be useful. If any two words have guided
my career and my volunteerism, it is
those two words. Look for opportunities.
Seek out new initiatives. Mentor. Help.
For many reasons that is why I’ve
been an active URISA volunteer for so
many years. URISA is grounded in the
notion of service. It’s easy to look at
URISA’s history and point to so many
initiatives and educational offerings
that URISA provides to the geospatial
industry. So much of what we have
developed or been a part of have
become virtually ubiquitous in our
industry. Because we see service to our
industry as paramount. Consider:
n GISCI. The GIS Certification
Institute (GISCI) provides the
geospatial community with a
complete professional certification
program. From early professional
years to retirement, GISCI offers
participants a positive method of
developing value for professionals
and employers in the GIS profession.
This program was initiated by URISA
and the GISP certification is available
to anyone in the industry, regardless
of association affiliation.
n URISA Leadership Academy (ULA).
The ULA is an incredibly successful
program designed to teach us
to be effective leaders and GIS
evangelists. Taught by leaders for
leaders, the ULA helps us learn
about our own management style,
team building, capacity building,
succession planning, budgeting,
overcoming political issues, and
strategic planning. The entire five
day program, the only leadership
training program of its type, is
tailored to industry leaders and
practitioners without regard to
professional association membership,
who are faced with unique
challenges of GIS leadership and
n GIS Hall of Fame. URISA established
the GIS Hall of Fame to recognize
and honor the most esteemed
Hilary E. H. Perkins,
GISP, AICP, East-West leaders of the geospatial community.
Gateway Council of Members’ body of work reflects
Governments
a record of contribution to the
advancement of the industry,
demonstrates creative thinking
and actions, vision and innovation,
inspiring leadership, perseverance,
and community mindedness.
URISA Hall of Fame Laureates are
individuals or organizations whose
management and who want to make
pioneering work has moved the
an impact leveraging the power of
geospatial industry in a better,
GIS.
n
stronger direction. These individuals
COGO. URISA’s leadership lead to
represent the ultimate in service to
the formation of the Coalition of
our profession.
Geospatial Organizations (COGO),
joining eleven geospatial associations
These are but some of the enduring
to act cooperatively in response to
legacies developed by URISA. They will
short-term policy issues. COGO
live on well into the future. But what – as
is working aggressively to develop
I’m often reminded – have you done for
policy guidance on a variety of
me lately? As URISA members, I hope
critical national geospatial issues.
you will remember that URISA is always
With ever-shifting budgets and
working to provide the educational and
priorities, it speaks well of our
networking opportunities you need to
industry that we can work to find
advance your career. We are always
common ground on important
looking for ways to strengthen the bonds
issues.
n
between URISA International and our
URISA Journal. The URISA Journal
Chapters. We are always working on
is the flagship publication of the
expanding our educational offerings
Association and is published both
both in terms of content and delivery
in print and online. Members of
methods. We know the value of the
URISA receive the URISA Journal as
depth and breadth of our network, and
a member benefit. A distinguishing
constantly work to enhance it. This year
factor setting apart the URISA
the Board of Directors:
Journal from other academic journals
n Completed a new strategic plan
in the IT field is that authors are
based on the Balanced Scorecard
not required to give up exclusive
approach
rights to their intellectual work
n Created a Policy Committee tasked
to the publisher. URISA Journal
with developing policy positions
editors believe that science and
on important topics facing the
new knowledge are best advanced
geospatial industry
through an intellectual environment
n Reformulated the Nominations
of openness and freedom to build
Committee into the Leadership
upon the work of those who came
Development and Succession
before.
Planning Committee to identify and
continued on page 9
September/October • URISA News 3
 Growth Slows continued from page 1 includes more
than 1500 charts
This downturn echoes the general that cover both
pull back of the private sector from the private and
major additional investments in new IT public market
technologies. At the same time public segments for the
sector sales are expected to grow 4.1% years 2004 through
to almost $957 million in 2009 reflecting 2009. It is available
this sectors continuing deployment of for purchase on
GIS technologies to all the services it Daratech’s web site
offers. www.daratech.com.
In the Traditional GIS segment
ESRI continues to have a dominant The charts and graphs
30% market share, up from 29% in in this new release
2008 according to Daratech. Lead by are the copyrighted
its iconic president Jack Dangermond, property of Daratech,
ESRI has been a benchmark for new GIS Inc. They can be used,
technologies, philosophies and direction with written permis-
for the entire industry for more than sion from Daratech,
20 years, and indications are that it Inc. in news publications and
will continue to be so, says Daratech. trade newsletters and maga-
Intergraph, the second largest player in zines. For more information
the traditional segment is forecast by contact Ruth Murphy by
Daratech to have a 16% market share in email at ruth@daratech.com
2009, up from 15% in 2008. Intergraph is or phone +1 617 418 1153.
remaking its entire business around a GIS
philosophy, and as a GIS service provider
Intergraph is likely to become even
stronger in the years ahead. Third ranked
is GE Energy, which is the market leader
in the utilities market where it is forecast
to have a 24% market share.
In the larger GIS/Geospatial
market that includes data, geo-enabled
engineering, GPS, photogrammetry and
remote sensing MacDonald Dettwiler and
Associates (MDA) has a leading 21.8%
share of the market. MDA’s strength
in the GIS/Geospatial markets is in
geospatial data and engineering services
for imaging, GIS, geology, weather and
defense. ESRI, is second with a 15.7%
share and Bentley Systems, the leading
supplier of GIS/Geospatial AEC market
software and services (where it has a
42.1% market share) is third. Bentley
has frequently made the running in the
geo-enabled engineering applications
market and continues to demonstrate
strong leadership in this area. However,
Bentley can expect stronger competition
from Autodesk, Intergraph and ESRI in
the coming years, as this segment of the
market may show greater than average
growth, says Daratech.
Just released, Daratech’s study
GIS/Geospatial Markets & Opportunities

4 September/October 2009 • URISA News

Dan Parr Remembered
By Nancy von Meyer, GISP
Dan Parr passed away on September 9,
2009. The GIS community, URISA Mem-
bers and friends and so many more have
lost a treasured friend. As we have been
remembering Dan and sharing our fa-
vorite “Dan Stories” the common thread
we hear is how much he loved his family,
Ellen, David and Adam; his quick wit; his
sense of humor and optimism; and his
deep compassion for those in need.
From his obituary in the Washington
Post: “Dan’s impassioned service to
his community over three decades
made a tremendous difference in the
lives of Montgomery County public
school children, immigrant workers, his
fellow civic activists and many others.
Motivated by his deep love for his own
family, Dan cheerfully and tirelessly
found ways to make his community a
better place, inspiring and recruiting all
around him to be part of the effort.”
We will miss his ability to make
everyone he met his friend and bring
a smile to every situation. He carried
his compassion for fairness, justice and
education with him always. URISA
has been honored to have Dan as a
colleague. Some URISA members have
shared some favorite stories of Dan, some
extracts from those remembrances are;
“Ed Crane was running for URISA
President and Dan cooked up a “for sure”
campaign for Ed’s “for sure” election.  All
the plumbing in the convention center
was “Crane” plumbing so Dan thought
why not put “ED” stickers on all the
plumbing, a sure fire way for everyone
to see!  With Dan’s help and others (who
don’t probably want to be remembered)
a lady URISAn even did the ladies room
for us, we put the “ED” stickers in front
of the “Crane” plumbing on many of
the fixtures in the center.  They were red
self-stick dots with ED on them.  Well Ed
Crane was elected by a landslide so we
knew what really worked!”   was and is a workshop that has been
“One of the things I always loved
about him, the “cause” was always more
important than the individual.”
“I stayed with Dan and his family a
couple times when he was in the throes
of his runs at school board and trying
to unseat corrupt officials. Dan had a
passion for education and politics, and
was very dedicated to whatever he
undertook. The wry sense of humor
and pointed wit were the surface but
underneath very warm and truly human
in the finest sense of the word - he
cared.”
“He enjoyed working in the political
realm to deal with real world issues
in spite of the frustrations that often
occur in politics.  We shared our
experiences about serving in local
politics, and found the humor
in these experiences, even when all else
failed!”
“I remember how personable he
was and his sense of humor - the kind of
memories that live on and speak to the
quality of individual that he was.”
It is hard to think of the Introduction
to GIS Workshop and not remember
Dan. He and Barry Wellar crafted that
workshop into a URISA centerpiece. It
copied frequently, presented by many
and became a foundation for the URISA’s
educational program.
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Barry’s memories of the
development of that workshop and his
first encounter with Dan are like so many
of the stories we all have and remember.
“Like many innovations Intro had
some rough patches, due in large part
to the dynamic nature of the field. When
I was asked to get more involved in the
work on updates and revisions, I was
reluctant.
On the one hand, it seemed
there was growing if not widespread
agreement about the need to
significantly improve the linkages among
the technology of GIS, the theories
and concepts of geography, and the
research methods, techniques, and
operations of the various disciplines
that are used in conjunction with GIS
technology, including geography,
geodesy, cartography, surveying, remote
sensing, etc. The fact that the linkages
issue continues to pose challenges and
opportunities in 2009 underscores both
the need and the difficulty aspects that
concerned me long ago.
On the other hand, however, it
seemed that while there was agreement
about the need to improve the linkages,
there did not appear to be much interest
in helping with the heavy mental lifting
that was needed to achieve, and then
maintain the improvements.
And then I met Dan, Mr. Earnest
and Sincere personified. As I recall Dan
started the discussion with something
like, “Professor, I believe that your
concerns are justified, but revisions are
needed if Intro is to succeed, and we
need you to help.” And there he sat,
smiling, eyes twinkling, with the Intro
ball deep in my court, with just the right
touch of diplomatic top-spin. There was
no return.
With the help of many others we
revised Intro multiple times, instructed
and co-instructed Intro 70-80 times
or more at URISA, GIS/LIS, and other
continued on page 9
Penn State’s Online Master of GIS Earns
“Most Outstanding Online Program” Award

The Department of Geography and John
A. Dutton e-Education Institute at Penn
State have received the Sloan-C Consor-
tium’s 2009 “Most Outstanding Online
Teaching & Learning Program” award
for “For creating a rigorous, high-quality
online graduate program that meets the
growing need for individuals with an ad-
vanced level of GIS education.”
The combined Master of GIS degree
and Postbaccalaureate Certificate
Programs in GIS and Geospatial
Intelligence have attracted over 3,000
students from all 50 states and seven
continents.
The Department has conferred over
1,300 certificates of achievement since
the program’s founding in 1999, when
it consisted of only five classes. By 2009
the program expanded to 26 classes
comprising a professional masters
degree and two postbaccalaureate
certificate programs.
Courseware used in fourteen of the
26 courses is freely available through
the Open Educational Resources
initiative of Penn State’s College of
Earth and Mineral Sciences at http://
open.ems.psu.edu
Fifty-five students have earned Penn
State’s MGIS degree since the graduate
program was established in 2004.
Nearly 130 students are currently active
in the MGIS program, while over 300
more seek a Certificate of Achievement.
In his letter of support for the
award nomination, MGIS graduate
Christopher Goranson wrote “The
Penn State MGIS program provided
me with a vehicle by which I could
attend courses on a part-time basis
while continuing to work full-time as
the Director of the GIS Center at the
NYC Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene. The combination of cutting-
edge GIS techniques that I was learning
with the opportunity to directly apply
them in a public health environment
was an invaluable asset, and laid the
groundwork for a variety of advanced quality and performance of our online
spatial analysis projects.” students.”
According to Department Head Originally established in 1996 as
Karl Zimmerer, “the [MGIS] Program the “Asynchronous Learning Network”
has expanded dramatically the in 1996 with support from the Alfred
number, geographic distribution, and P. Sloan Foundation, the Sloan-C
age diversity of our graduate student Consortium represents nearly 1,000
population. Faculty members who online certificate and degree programs
participate in the MGIS program as offered by 158 higher education
instructors, advisers, and admissions institutions.
committee members remark on the high
In Memoriam - Bob Marx (Father of TIGER)
Robert W. Marx, former Chief of the Census Geog-
raphy Division, succumbed to an illness on Monday,
September 7, 2009 with his family at his side.
Bob served as Chief of the Geography
Division of the Census Bureau from 1983 to 2003
(interrupted by a 3-year period as Associate Director
in the 1990s to prepare for Census 2000). He was
the architect of the Census Bureau’s TIGER System
which began in the early 1980s as a collaborative
effort with the U.S. Geological Survey. Bob was a visionary who sought ways
to advance the importance of census geography through new technological
developments that were made practical through useful applications. By making
spatial data for the nation available, the TIGER effort opened the way for GIS
development and created an entire industry which continues to grow. Bob was a
friend to all and will be sadly missed by his colleagues.
During his more than 36-year career at the Census Bureau, he received several
awards for exceptional performance, including the Department of Commerce’s
Gold and Silver Medals, and the Meritorious Presidential Rank Award.
Bob Marx is survived by his wife of 44 years, Jan. They have two grown sons
and eight grandchildren. On Saturday, October 10, there was a memorial service
celebrating Bob at the Springfield Christian Church in Springfield, VA.

6 September/October 2009 • URISA News

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September/October • URISA News 7

Bill Garrison Tells Us a Bit about His Friend
And Colleague, Ed Horwood
Compiled by Barry Wellar
A notice about contributing to URISA’s
history reminded me of the many times
that I had participated in discussions
about the origins of URISA, and the peo-
ple who had the vision, energy, stamina,
conviction, and motivation to make it
happen. And, reflecting upon those good
times reminded me of the people factor,
which was the constant that made URISA
the “place to be” throughout my career.
As good fortune would have it, I
arrived within the ambit of the URISA
scene just several years after its formal
inception when I started graduate school
in 1965 at Northwestern University. As
result, I met many of the original cast
of characters behind the formation of
URISA, including Professor William L.
(Bill) Garrison.
And, as a result of further good
fortune, I have had occasion in recent
years to exchange communications and
co-author publications and presentations
with Dr. Garrison, who is Emeritus
Professor, Civil and Environmental
Engineering, University of California at
Berkeley.
In the hope that he would recall one
or more of the accounts that he shared
with me, I sent an email to Dr. Garrison,
which included the following text:
Bill,
 
URISA is preparing a history of the
origins of the organization, and we
have some of the early papers writ-
ten by Ed Horwood, so that part of
the documentation process appears
to be reasonably well-covered.
 
However, the history will likely be
very short on personal materials, and
information about the circumstances
in which URISA took shape may be
scarce.
It would be great if you could write a
couple of paragraphs of an anecdotal
8 September/October 2009 • URISA News
nature about Ed, since you knew him
better than most of us,
And, several of your thoughts about
URISA then and now, as well as any
points or places in between, would
be most welcome.
Barry
I am delighted to report that Prof. Garri-
son agreed to prepare the following two
items for what might be called The Brief
History of URISA Project.
Edgar Horwood’s URISA
I saw something like URISA as a gleam
in Horwood’s eye by the late 1950s. We
were at the University of Washington at
the time, lived about a block apart in the
View Ridge neighborhood and worked
on similar research. Available and recep-
tive, I served as a listener and sounding
board for Ed’s ideas. In the 60s and in
other venues I donated shoe leather to
his efforts to gain political and financial
support, hosted a meeting at Northwest-
ern University, and was active in URISA in
its first few years -- all for a good cause
striven for by warm, innovative, altruistic
Edgar Horwood.
As for the man behind URISA,
Ed’s take-action and fit-action-to-
circumstance skills warrant special
mention.
Horwood’s take-action at home
was his grandiose 1960s proposal for
an interlocked set of urban, planning,
regional, and what-have-you data centers
at the University. The proposal wandered
from the Civil Engineering Department
to Deans and Department Chairs, and
was studied by committees and assailed
by busybodies. After a couple of years it
returned through bureaucratic channels
with a “no” signal backed by 1,000 and
1 reasons, yet accompanied by claims on
money and control.
But that was too late. Earlier, when
asked by the Comptroller for names for
his funded research projects, Horwood
used URISA-like names. When the
Regents of the University asked the
Administration how it was responding
to the great urban crisis of the 60s, the
Comptroller was queried. A computer
search yielded Horwood’s array of project
titles, and they were reported as the
University’s ahead-of-the-curve and
sweeping organizational response to the
crisis.
And Horwood loved to tell the story
of how he was de facto rather that de
jura. Even so, a bold move at the right
place, right time came to the aid of
innovation.
The American Institute of Planners
met in Seattle in the late 50s, and
Horwood arranged for me and several of
my students to give papers at a plenary
session. Not knowing the audience, we
pontificated on how urban morphology
could be captured by cluster and
principal component analysis and other
such things. There was a great silence
when it was time for discussion, until
Horwood stood in the back of the room,
looked at his watch and said, “Can
someone give me the correct time. My
watch says it is 8:30, but these people
have talked for hours.” That action broke
the ice and fit the circumstances. Good
for Horwood. He knew what do in the
circumstances, and that kind of knowing
served him well.
Edgar Horwood, a real person who
knew what to do and whose actions
serve us well.
Bill Garrison, September 1, 2009.
URISA, Present at the Creation
Edgar Horwood made URISA a sure thing
from the 1950s when he first imagined
it. He had energy, a sense for innovation,
and other attributes that made him the
right person at the right place and time.
 Questions were about How soon?
and How all- encompassing?, and not
about if or whether.
I was a watcher and a booster in the
early days. I kept up with the efforts of
Edgar Horwood and others and helped
when I could, mainly by joining Horwood
in Washington and Ottawa in vain
searches for some sort of government
involvement and by attending early
meetings.
It was good to be there at the
creation, but my involvement tapered
as URISA took off in the 70s and other
things consumed my time and energy.
Looking around today, and looking
back, I regret being pulled away and
missing the personal, professional, and
institutional interactions that URISA
provides.
However, I judge that my early
view of the potential for URISA-hosted
activities was right on the mark. It went
beyond better data to choices enriched
by real- time, fine- grained, and flexible
information systems.
And I said that in lots of places:
American Political Science Association
(1965), American Institute of Planners
(1965), American Astronautical Society
(1966), World Future Society (1970), and
Association for Computing Machinery
(1971), and elsewhere.
Themes touted then continue.
Choices and new futures for urban
areas was one theme. And scope and
variety was another, as suggested by a
view of the earth from space and the
title, World’s Largest Information
System in the Astronautical Society
publication (beating Google by
decades).
On the upbeat, I see those themes
emerging in rich and varied ways.
On the downbeat, the threat of
information tipping the balance in
favor of the political class seems not to
have materialized. Instead, headwinds
continue from folks that accept an
inevitable and dreadful future locked-
in by historic path dependence,
hammered by anticipated natural
disasters and resource depletion, and
suffocated by urges to modify the
behaviors of others.
Bill Garrison, September 1, 2009
President's Message continued from page 3 Dan Parr continued from page 5
mentor new URISA leaders conferences, and created materials
n Launched a new website that were widely copied and used in
n Developed a New Board Member universities, businesses, and governments
Orientation Handbook to provide in the U.S., Canada, and abroad for many
basic information about URISA years. And, somewhat remarkable given
as well as to lay out roles and our different personalities, over more
responsibilities of Board membership than a decade of interaction involving
Intro there was not one issue that we did
Thank you to immediate Past resolve quickly and amicably.
President Susan Johnson for shepherding My very good friend Dan Parr made
the Board through the strategic planning major contributions to the GIS field, to
process. You have left us with a valuable the URISA workshop program, as well
document and set of tools to guide URISA as to the careers of the several thousand
in finding innovative and new ways to people who attended Intro workshops
serve our membership. Thank you also over the years, and he did it with charm,
to departing Board members Al Butler, modesty, dignity, and sensitivity.”
Juna Papajorgji, and Geney Terry who Amen to that Barry. We will all carry
always challenged us to think outside our special remembrance of Dan and I
of our comfort zones while keeping our am sure they all end with a smile.
commitment to serve. I know none of
you will fade into the sunset and I look May the road rise up to meet you.
forwarding to working with you again. May the wind always be at your back.
Welcome to Kathrine Cargo, May the sun shine warm upon your face,
URISA’s new President! Welcome too to and rains fall soft upon your fields.
President-Elect Cy Smith, and new Board And until we meet again,
members Carl Anderson, David DiBiase, May God hold you in the palm of His
and Twyla McDermott! I look forward hand.
to working with you all in the upcoming
year!
My very first URISA President’s
column was a reflection on the words
of wisdom of those URISA Presidents
who have gone before me. I always try
to remember that we are standing on
the shoulders of giants. When thinking
about the most fundamental value of
URISA to us as individuals and to our
profession, I am brought back to the
words of Past President Cindy Dominico
that “where technology, policy, and
passion intersect, we find our members,
the heart of URISA” are still so true. As
URISA members, as in life, there is no
limit to the good work we can do if you
don’t care who gets the credit.
Have you seen the new
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(www.urisa.org)?
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 Welcome new urisa members

Julius B Adewopo, University of Arkansas Abhishek Kumar Kala, University of Texas Dallas,
Monticello, Monticello, AR Richardson, TX Federal Agency Member
Scott Bennet, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, H Peter King, University of Nevada, Truckee, CA U.S. Census Bureau
Canada
Fred Limp, Center for Advanced Spatial
Neil Berry, City of Seattle, Seattle, WA Technologies, Fayetteville, AR
Corporate Members
Caitlin Botschner, Warren County, Lebanon, OH Thelma Marron, El Paso County, El Paso, TX
Dana Brown, Trimble GeoSpatial Geo 3D, Anurag Mehta, Washington Metropolitan Area Platinum Corporate Member 
Brossard, QC, Canada Transit Authority (WMATA), Washington, DC ESRI
Danielle Marie Bruno-Favreau, GISP, Boise, ID Koren Melfi, Altarum Institute, Alexandria, VA
Gold Corporate Members 
Michael G Burrell, GISP, Capital Regional District, Heather Milton, GISP, URS, Saint Louis, MO
CDM
Victoria, BC, Canada
Isaac Montague, Arizona State University, Gilbert, Data Transfer Solutions, LLC 
Chris Cantrell, Midland County, Midland, MI AZ
Michael Baker Corporation
Paul Cone, City of Portland Transportation, Timothy Morrissey, Dept of Geography, UNC
Portland, OR Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC BC Assessment
Sarah Conners, GISP, Enterprise, AL Brian Nemec, City of Westerville, Westerville, OH Manatron
Merrick & Company
Daniel Crow, Lexington, OH Michelle Pearson, Calista Corp, Anchorage, AK
OGInfo.com, LLC  
Ray De Leon, HJW GeoSpatial, Inc, Oakland, CA, Thomas Pesek, Niagara College, Angus, ON,
Pictometry
Canada
Vaishali Deshmukh, CH2M Hill, Riverview, FL Pinnacle Mapping Technologies, Inc.
Brian Peterson, University of California Santa
Dina Desjardins, Precision Laser & Instrument Inc, Barbara, Fillmore, CA Pixxures, Inc.
Detroit, MI The Sidwell Company
Michael Reidy, Valley Center-Pauma, Valley
Thomas A. Gaus, GISP, The Gateway Engineers, Center, CA
Pittsburgh, PA
Jay Rodenbeck, Jefferson County Planning Div, Business Members
Gerald B. Gawaldo, GISP, Palm Tran, West Palm Hillsboro, MO
Beach, FL
Silver Business Members 
Eric Snyder, City of Newton, Newton, NC
Denise Marie R General, University of Arkansas Inner Corridor Technologies/ Teach Me GIS
at Monticello, Monticello, AR David Stage, Tallahassee, FL
eGPS Solutions Inc
Sally Goodman, AC Transit, Oakland, CA Mark Steiner, CDM - Camp Dresser & McKee Inc.,
Chicago, IL Colorado CustomWare, Inc. (CCI)
Russell G Hollister, Geospective Technologies,
Riverside, CA Patricia Watson, NASA, Washington, DC Geotek Mapping
GeoWise Limited
John Hudler, Kennesaw State University, Kevin R. Wenger, GISP, , Dillsburg, PA
Kennesaw, GA GIS Innovations LTD.
Ruby Wun, City of Fremont, Fremont, CA
Kessler GIS
Andrew Hunter, University of Calgary, Calgary,
AB, Canada Leslie Zolman, Penn State, Monument, CO MGP, Inc.
Munsys, Inc.
Mary L. Johnson, Avencia Incorporated,
Philadelphia, PA North River Geographic Systems, Inc.
Open Technology Group
Orion Technology Inc.
Spatial Data Research
Spatial Focus Inc.
Tetra Tech
Tyler Technologies Eagle Computer
Division
VERTICES LLC
Wellar Consulting

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