Affiliations
The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association
Mr. Kotapish has been a member of URISA since the late 1980s. The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) is a nonprofit association of professionals using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other information technologies to solve challenges in state / provincial and local government agencies and departments. He has been a certified Geographic Information System Professional, or GISP, since 1997.
The GIS Corps
Mr. Kotapish was the first of dozens of GIS Corps Hurricane Katrina volunteers to arrive at Jackson, Mississippi. He spent almost two weeks managing the GIS-based emergency response activities in the control room. The successes in Mississippi helped catalyze GIS's usefulness for emergency response nationally. Listen to their stories on YouTube here. He is cited as a contributing author to the GISCorps Volunteer Deployment Handbook. Other missions include Costa Rica rain forest GIS and various mapathons.
The National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation
NAPSG's Mission is to support the public safety and homeland security communities in advancing data interoperability and connectivity through Geographic Information Systems to support local and national preparedness goals. For more information, see NAPSG.
The GIS Users of Northern Ohio
Mr. Kotapish was a co-founder and manager of the GIS Users Of Northern Ohio (GUONO). This informal group promotes geographic data sharing, encourages data standardization, and provides a network for exchanging technical information between all Geographic Information System users. GUONO is one of the nation's longest-running geospatial user groups, meeting since the early 1990s.
Mr. Kotapish has been a member of URISA since the late 1980s. The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) is a nonprofit association of professionals using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other information technologies to solve challenges in state / provincial and local government agencies and departments. He has been a certified Geographic Information System Professional, or GISP, since 1997.
The GIS Corps
Mr. Kotapish was the first of dozens of GIS Corps Hurricane Katrina volunteers to arrive at Jackson, Mississippi. He spent almost two weeks managing the GIS-based emergency response activities in the control room. The successes in Mississippi helped catalyze GIS's usefulness for emergency response nationally. Listen to their stories on YouTube here. He is cited as a contributing author to the GISCorps Volunteer Deployment Handbook. Other missions include Costa Rica rain forest GIS and various mapathons.
The National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation
NAPSG's Mission is to support the public safety and homeland security communities in advancing data interoperability and connectivity through Geographic Information Systems to support local and national preparedness goals. For more information, see NAPSG.
The GIS Users of Northern Ohio
Mr. Kotapish was a co-founder and manager of the GIS Users Of Northern Ohio (GUONO). This informal group promotes geographic data sharing, encourages data standardization, and provides a network for exchanging technical information between all Geographic Information System users. GUONO is one of the nation's longest-running geospatial user groups, meeting since the early 1990s.