MAPS - UPDATE!
Thanks to a cooperative working partnership with the Gallatin County GIS office, MSU and the Gallatin Conservation District, AGAI is pleased to announce that a longtime goal to GPS map Gallatin Valley watercourses in a standardized method has begun!

Diana Cooksey, a professor of GPS at Montana State University teaches a course called LRES 357 GPS Fundamentals & Applications of Mapping. One of the course assignments for the students to work on an outside mapping project. Each year the City of Bozeman 911 department presents their list of new apartment buildings and subdivisions that need to be mapped. This helps the emergency responders find addresses quickly. AGAI presented their project to Diana and she was keen to add us to the program.

This past fall Allen Armstrong the Gallatin County GIS Manager, along with an AGAI representative, presented the AGAI Water Conveyance Facilities Mapping Project (watercourse mapping) to the class. MSU students Curt Leibrand, Curtiss Swets, Jordan Beamer, Steven Tilden, Chris Fredin and Robyn Wanken all signed on to the project. As this course is offered each semester, we expect an ongoing supply of these wonderful student volunteers to work on the map while fulfilling at the same time a course requirement. Other than time spent with the students, there is no cost to AGAI. We are thankful for the level of cooperation and interest we have received from all the entities involved. The first ditch to be mapped will be The Lowline Canal.

AGAI would like to thank Diana Cooksey of MSU, Allen Armstrong and Frank Dougher of the Gallatin County GIS Department, and Marcie Murnion-Learn of the Gallatin Conservation District for all their help to put this project together.