Schedule
Friday, January 18th
8:00 - 8:30 Registration
8:30 - 8:40
Welcome/Introductions
8:40 - 10:00 Overview of Manifold's Internal Planning Process and Roadmap by Dimitri Rotow,
Project Manager,
Manifold.net
10:00 - 10:10 Break
10:10 - 11:00 Using Manifold GIS as a tool
for Real Estate Market Analysis by John Norman.
Please see abstract below.
11:00 - 11:10 Break
11:10 - 12:00 Integrating PDAs, a Centralized Database, and
Manifold IMS for Asset Management by Rob Wood
Please see abstract below.
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:20 Creating a GIS
Application with the Manifold Map Control by
Danielle Cullen.
Please see abstract below.
2:20 - 2:30 Break
2:30 - 3:20
Demonstration of Manifold IMS capabilities
and IMS hosting on MapServing.com by Joe Luchette and
Charles McLane. Please see abstract below.
3:20 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 5:00
Integrating Manifold with your existing GIS software
This will be a roundtable discussion.
5:30 - 8:00
Evening Social held at the Old Chicago here:
6821 East Superstition Springs Blvd.
Saturday, January 19th
9:00 - 11:00 Creation of Western Manifold User
Group
11:00 - 11:10 Break
11:10 - 12:00 Flight Planning For Photo
Missions Using Manifold by Eric Andelin.
Please see abstract below.
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (Provided by
Manifold.net)
1:30 - 2:20 "How do you do that in
Manifold?" an interactive session led by the Conference Organizing Committee
2:20 - 2:30 Break
2:30 - 3:20 Tips and Tricks an interactive opportunity to help your peers.
3:20 - 3:30 Drawing for door prize You do *NOT* want to miss this! Thanks to our
sponsors, this is your opportunity to
turn $50 into thousands. You must be present
to win. Conference Organizers are not
eligible.
Abstracts
Friday, January 18th
10:10 - 11:00 AM Using
Manifold GIS as a tool for Real Estate Market
Analysis
Manifold GIS as a tool has a huge variety of
applications. The Taurean Group uses Manifold on a
daily basis for the purpose of analyzing primary and
secondary data with respect to real estate
feasibility, valuation, market analysis and land use
planning.
In real estate, as the cliché suggests, location is
key. No matter what the property, be it a single
parcel or an entire community, understanding the
associated spatial environment can only make
decisions about those entities better. Valuation and
land use planning involves not only the
understanding of specific properties, but also
surrounding land use, linkages to services,
customers, competition etc. The purpose of this
presentation will be to discuss and demonstrate how
Manifold has been used by Taurean for the
integration and analysis of commercial, government
and primary data in a real estate decision making
and land use planning context.
The presentation will include the use of Census
TIGER files for simple base mapping and drive time
calculations (using business tools) as well as
creation of demographic ‘heat maps’ using Manifold’s
surface analysis package. It will also present how
Taurean has used spatial queries with previously
created drive time zones to generate a detailed
community comparison of people, business and
employment, and expenditure information.
Presenter: John Norman, The Taurean Group, LLC
11:10 - 12:00 AM Integrating PDAs, a Centralized Database, and
Manifold IMS for Asset Management Artisan Farms (Kendall-Jackson) is a
distributed premium wine grape growing
operation with strategic holdings throughout
California. The company uses PDA and
smartphone data collection tools to record
everything from mealy bug trap locations to
equipment utilization details. Data is
stored in a central database where server
based GIS is used to present consolidated
data and deliver reports through a web
accessible portal. The portal delivers maps
showing real-time information for Yield
Estimates and Harvest Planning among many
other functions. Each time a map is opened
the underlying database is queried to build
the presentation completely automatically.
The same capabilities are in use by other
global wine brands such as Diageo Chateau &
Estates, Fosters and J Lohr and by
specialist wine industry consultants in the
Barossa Valley outside Adelaide, South
Australia. Harvest Planning for Artisan
Farms’ Alexander Valley vineyard office was
sometimes a stressful exercise with last
minute measurements being called in from the
field, Excel spreadsheets to update and
multi-page reports to print. Viticultural
and winemaking staff would get together and
scan through tabular information for
hundreds of vineyard blocks to gain an
understanding of progressing maturity and
determine which areas would be harvested
when. The whole procedure would be repeated
every 2 or 3 days. Now, the hurried
atmosphere has been replaced by projecting a
web-based current maturity report onto a
large screen at the end of the conference
room table. This and other map based reports
are accessed through a portal that has been
constructed to meet the needs of the
management team in the region and provide
instant status information for multiple
variables across seven different ranches.
Data is fed from PDA’s and smartphone
devices into a central database. The data
comprises records that track qualitative and
resource allocation variables. The database
contains several years worth of data
amounting to over 200,000 individual records
with current growth at approximately 10,000
entries per week. Database tools are used to
create structured queries and views that
deliver consolidated information. Records
are filtered to break out the most recent
sugar sample values for each block and then
averaged. Manifold desktop software is used
to join the summarized values to geographic
data and then published using the Web Page
wizard to a server running the Manifold
runtime. Anyone who opens a map report page
on the portal will force re-execution of the
underlying database query thereby assuring
extraction of the most up-to-date database
content. This presentation will provide a
view into the underlying database
architecture of the solution. Construction
of queries and views used to filter and
manipulate records will be demonstrated and
an overview provided of the IMS capabilities
in Manifold. The portal structure will be
briefly explained to complete the picture.
Additional parallel applications using
the same tools and system architecture have
been constructed for multinational specialty
crop producers, public infrastructure
managers and the horse racing industry in
Australia. If time permits we will
illustrate how the above has been applied in
these unique vertical markets.
This presentation will be delivered by
Rob Wood. Rob is the Founder and CEO of
ScanControl, Inc. of Pleasanton, CA. He has
a degree in Civil Engineering from the
University of Cape Town and an MBA from San
Jose State University. After 10 years in the
construction industry he transitioned into
various infrastructure management consulting
roles in Silicon Valley before starting out
on his own in 2002.
1:30 - 2:20 PM
Creating a GIS Application with the
Manifold Map Control Parcel Viewer is
a program used by county governments in
Idaho to view their Parcel ownership maps
with their assessment information. It was
created in Visual Studio 2005 with the
Manifold Map Control. Originally Parcel
Viewer was created in Visual Basic 6 with
ESRI's MapObjects. I will discuss the
creation of Parcel Viewer, give a
demonstration and also show how to set up a
basic Manifold application with Visual Basic
Express utilizing the Manifold Map Control.
Parcel Viewer is owned by Geographic Mapping
Consultants, Inc. located in Moscow, Idaho.
Digital Mapping Services provides
maintenance and technical support for the
Parcel Viewer software.
This presentation will be delivered by Danielle Cullen from Digital
Mapping Services, LLC 2:30 - 3:20 PM
Demonstration of Manifold IMS capabilities
and IMS hosting on MapServing.com
Manifold IMS is
unique in that it is a built-in part of the
Manifold System GIS. Other IMS packages
require a separate application to actually
publish the map on the Internet. By
combining both GIS and IMS into one package,
Manifold makes it easy for authors of new
web maps to simply create a project the way
they want it to look and then publish it in
web-ready form without any programming. The
web application is then modifiable to create
an unlimited number of functionalities
within the IMS, including geocoding (address
locating), routing, data queries and much
much more!
Manifold users can host their own GIS-enabled web pages to
publish their IMS projects, but many prefer
to subscribe to a web-hosting service that
can provide a reliable and easy to use
hosting platform that allows them to
concentrate on creating and enhancing their
projects. One method of enhancing the
functionality of an IMS project while
avoiding the costly and time consuming
process of coding commonly used tools and
features is to use a predeveloped template
within which their IMS map can be embedded
when it is published. Templates can add a
variety of tools including Geocoding
(address finding), measuring tools,
overview/index maps, print layouts and
custom query tools. For more sophisticated
IMS applications, specialty products are
available that allow the Manifold user to
deploy a high-end IMS map application
providing a suite of advanced map user tools
and map management tools. In this
presentation we will discuss Manifold’s IMS
capabilities, demonstrate how easy it is to
create and publish an IMS project, and
discuss and demonstrate some of the
available templates and software products
for enhancing your IMS applications.
Presenters:
Charles McLane – Principal, MapServing.com, LLC and
Joe Luchette –
Senior GIS Specialist, MapServing.com, LLC
Saturday, January 19th
11:10 - 12:00
Flight Planning For Photo Missions Using Manifold
Manifold can be used as an alternative to COTS
software for flight planning of with regard to
Aerial Photo missions. Traditionally photo missions
were planned using quad sheets, scales, and some
knowledge of geometry as it pertains to
photogrammetry. More recently this has been replaced
with software such as DeLorme's Xmap (and others)
which allow the flight planner to digitally create
these maps using DRG's and/or NAIP imagery as the
backdrop. Typically the base maps are too old and
the software to costly. In this presentation some of
the requirements for planning photo missions will be
discussed and an alternative method using manifold
will be demonstrated.
Presenter: Eric Andelin, Vice President, Aerial Data
Service, Inc.
***CALL FOR PRESENTERS*** Sorry, the conference schedule is full.
Date: Friday, January 18th and Saturday, January 19th
2008
We are looking for presenters for the users meeting in January. Below are some suggested topics, but we would like to hear other ideas as well!
- GPS Integration
- Programming with the Manifold ActiveX Control
- Database Implementation
- Integrating Manifold with your existing
GIS software
- Linked Drawings
- Project Demonstrations
Presentation time slots are 50 minutes in length. If you are interested in giving a presentation for a shorter period of time,
please let us know and we will do our best to double up presenters in the same time slot.
Please contact us at information@gis4everyone.com if you are interested in presenting!
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