GIS professionals and surveyors to locate marker near DECC

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Public Works Department  • Richard H. Hansen Transportation & Public Works Complex
4787 Midway Road, Duluth, MN 55811 • Phone: (218) 625-3830


James T. Foldesi, P.E.
Public Works Director/Highway Engineer

NEWS RELEASE 


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 
October 2, 2018

MEDIA CONTACT: Ryan Stovern, 

St. Louis County GIS Principal

715-790-9298 (cell)


GIS professionals and surveyors to locate marker near DECC

Two professions that do complimentary work will demonstrate how they work together during a conference at the DECC in Duluth, Wednesday, October 3. "Meet Me at the Corner" is the first ever gathering in Minnesota of GIS professionals and surveyors. The two groups will demonstrate the significance of their respective roles, and attendees will have the opportunity to find a stone corner monument outside the DECC.


Meet Me at the Corner will be held in the Lake Superior Ballroom at the DECC, and is free and open to the public, It will include presentations from 1:30-3 p.m. on the importance of the public land survey system and what section corners are, as well as how GIS professionals use information from surveyors to do their work. At 3 p.m., participants will take a short field trip outside to find a corner monument based on what they have learned during the earlier presentations.


Meet Me at the Corner is presented by the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium, Minnesota Association of County Surveyors, and the Minnesota Society of Professional Surveyors. The event marks the first day of the three-day annual conference of the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium, which is being held in Duluth this year.

 

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