GIS Day 2005 in Tempe

The City of Tempe’s Engineering Division hosted GIS Day 2005 in the Tempe Public Library and Mike Tschudi took the lead and spearheaded the MAS-GIS presence at the event. Approximately 75 visitors browsed GIS posters from the City Police Department, ASU’s Department of Geography, ASU’s Department of Geological Sciences, ASU’s Institute for Social Science Research, Wide World of Maps, and AirPhotoUSA. In addition, the exhibit featured a showing of the Upwardly Urban video portraying future city development projected onto a 3D base map.

Posters from the 2004-2005 MAS cohort figured prominently in the exhibit. We wanted to display them all, but the available space limited us to the following posters:

• Arizona Wildfires: Preparation, Battle, & Recovery (Cory Whitaker)
• City of Phoenix Graffiti Busters (Patrick Gorman)
• Crime Analysis Maps for Tucson, Arizona (Greg Beard)
• Habitat Suitability Assessment for the Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl (Brent Figura)
• Keeping Queen Creek Unique; Using GIS in Land Use Decision Making (Shawny Ekadis)
• Phoenix mountain preserve trail map (Garrett B. Topham)
• Traffic Data Inventory GIS Application (Julie Heckler-Willett)
• Utilizing Geographic Information & Information Technology (Jeannette Kobbeman)
• What Districts Do I Live In? (Timothy Johnson)

Several people expressed interest in pursuing the MAS-GIS. Whether visitors were library patrons, educators, career-switchers, college students, or children, they seemed to find something absorbing in the exhibit.