The meeting was convened by the Chairman, Kim Ludeke. This technical exchange meeting was beneficial to both federal and state partners. Jean suggested similar topics be discussed as well as how data for additional Stratmap layers can be developed and what standards should be developed and applied for data development and maintenance. Other topics could be how to get cooperative funding. Stratmap is moving along, but is still open to focus group input to improve the data.
New themes invite the opening of new focus groups.
He emphasized the need for more virtual groups. Rob Aanstoos of DIR also noted the earlier suggested ad hoc OO group. He offered to get together with Drew Decker , the Texas State Cartographer, to put together a matrix for people to note which topics are of most interest to them. This matrix would be made available over the internet at the TGIC web site. Gordon Wells stressed the importance of including the private sector in these focus groups to compare the work and needs of the public and private sectors.