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State Strategic Plan for GIS Adopted

On behalf of the State GIS Board, the Arkansas GIS Office is pleased to announce the state’s strategic plan for GIS has been updated, and adopted.  The plan builds on the work of the agency to foster the development, and maintenance of framework GIS data.  It includes key actions on the work of the Division […]

2015 GIS Users Forum Symposium Grant

The Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office (AGISO) in partnership with the Arkansas GIS Users Forum is offering a registration grant for one full conference registration ($400) to attend the 2015 Arkansas GIS Users Forum Symposium, on August 31st to September 4th, 2015 in Little Rock, Arkansas. This symposium provides an outstanding opportunity to access GIS Short […]

Happy New Year: Launch of New Arkansas GIS Office Website

On January 5, 2015, the Arkansas GIS Office launched its new website. This launch comes a bit earlier than anticipated due to the failure of old system hardware. As such, there may be a few kinks to work out. However, this launch is designed with every Arkansas GIS stakeholder in mind. This is your website; this […]

GOVERNOR BEEBE ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENTS TO STATE GIS BOARD

LITTLE ROCK –  Governor Mike Beebe announced the following appointments to the State GIS Board on October 14, 2014. Sharon Hawkins, of Little Rock, her appointment expires August 1, 2018. Sharon replaces Jonathan Sweeney. William “Grant” Tennille, of Little Rock, His appointment expires August 1, 2018. Grant replaces Bekki White. Earlier, in September the Governor […]

A Benchmark in the Early Days of GeoStor

Often, I fail to take a minute and look at back at where we have been as GIS community in Arkansas. Our state’s collective GIS story is pretty fascinating. I was rummaging through a box at my desk after a recent move and ran across this photo which marks a very important benchmark in the history of […]

GIS & CAD Survey for Local 911 Blue Ribbon Committee

The Arkansas Geographic Information Office is seeking your help in filling out a survey on current 911 systems and GIS data used in statewide 911 dispatch centers.  Information collected in this survey will be summarized and reported to the Legislative Local 911 Systems Blue Ribbon Committee. The committee was created by Act 1171 of the […]

.gps to .kml Data Conversion Process

On January 31, 2014, an Arkansas Forestry Commission plane was reported missing in western Arkansas.  The plane was on a routine forest fire patrol mission when the pilot failed to check in at one of his checkpoints.  The search started out local, but quickly grew into the largest search and rescue mission in Arkansas history.  […]

Settlers Joins Agency

The Arkansas Geographic Information Office is pleased to announce that Holly Settlers has joined the agency as its new Administrative Specialist. Holly will be responsible for agency  financial transactions, procurement, record management, performing general office duties and providing administrative support to the State GIS Board. Before joining AGIO, Holly was employed with Cardinal Health Distributions. […]

LeMaster Joins AGIO

The Arkansas Geographic Information Office is pleased to announce that Seth LeMaster has joined the agency. Seth is filling the position previously occupied by Tony Davis. He is a member of the Arkansas Army National Guard and just recently finished a year deployment where he was the Geospatial Intelligence Lead for Special Operation Forces in […]

Phase 2 Complete in Parcel Mapping Grant Project

Last year we shared the exciting news about this project and the team here at AGIO is in full bore quality control mode. Between the two contractors Smart Data Strategies and Schneider Corporation. we just received 135,326 more parcels in the participating counties.  The contractors now will move into the final stage of the project […]