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Corpus Christi-based OGInfo.com was awarded contract for GIS system in Bee County

CORPUS CHRISTI — A chance meeting with the LaSalle County chief appraiser this past spring led to OGInfo.com's contract with the appraisal district of Bee County earlier this month. The Corpus Christi-based company plans on it being the first of many.

Press Release
Corpus Christi, October 28, 2008:

OGInfo.com, LLC, (OGI) a Texas Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services provider, will be attending the fifteenth annual Texas Rural Chief Appraisers Conference in Austin, Texas on November 10th. OGI is located in Corpus Christi, Texas and provides comprehensive mapping services to local, state and federal government along with all sectors of the conventional and renewable energy business. OGI is a leading provider of high quality digital maps as well as a variety of other GIS products, services and software applications. By attending the conference, OGI is seeking to gain prospective clients in statewide county appraisal districts for their Government Services division.

For additional information Contact:
Raymond Horner, Business Development
OGInfo.com
361-904-0071
http://www.oginfo.com

For Immediate Release

Corpus Christi, October 20, 2008:

OGInfo.com, LLC, (OGI) a Texas Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services and products company has been selected to complete all GIS mapping services for the Bee County Appraisal District. OGI will utilize their team of GIS Professionals and Data Specialists to map the county using state-of-the-art computer aided mapping, historical cartography and georectified satellite imagery. This specialized process will produce an extremely accurate and up-to-date digital map that will be available on the web and freely accessible around the clock. The interactive map will allow users to search and browse high-accuracy land data and georectified aerial images over the entire county. This user-friendly map displaying roads, parcel lines, surveys, water bodies, pipelines, oil & gas wells, floodplains, parks, wildlife refuges, jurisdictional boundaries and city limits will be available to the public over the Internet to explore by January 1st 2009.
This online public map will greatly reduce the amount of “foot traffic” in the Bee County Appraisal District office. Free access to this map will enable all residents of Bee County to check the appraisal value of their property, identify names and addresses of other property owners and identify all jurisdictional boundaries. The systems and data provided by OGI will also enable the appraisal district office to more quickly respond with completeness and increased accuracy to information requests from the public.
OGI is located in Corpus Christi, Texas and provides comprehensive mapping services to local, state and federal government along with all sectors of the conventional and renewable energy business. OGI is a leading provider of high quality digital maps as well as a variety of other GIS products, services and software applications.
For additional information on the work being done by OGInfo.com, LLC for the Bee County Appraisal District please contact Raymond Horner or visit www.oginfo.com.

Contact:
Raymond Horner, Business Development
OGInfo.com
361-904-0071
http://www.oginfo.com

Summer NAPE has come and gone and was a big success for the OGI team. It was a lot of fun because we got to meet many interesting people from a variety of companies all very intrigued by our new complete online land package, LAVA 2.0. Everyone was very excited with the capabilities of LAVA 2.0 integrating lead/lease land management, GIS mapping and a powerful search engine, all online. With all the new people we met at NAPE, the office here in Corpus Christi has been very busy. We are all excited to see more clients start exploring the power of our online products. From what we saw at Summer NAPE, we are confident that more and more companies will start rethinking there GIS needs and how OGI can help them compete in a very competitive oil & gas prospecting market. Here at OGI, we specialize in oil & gas land information, so you don't have to.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth and let us show them our revolutionary online product. We always learn a lot when we get out and talk to people fact-to-face about their businesses and the changing industry technology. We hope everyone that visited with us took away some valuable information about our company, OGI, and how we are helping to change the way successful prospecting is achieved.

We also would like to congratulate the winners of our daily drawings. Each day we held a drawing to give away a hand held Garmon GPS device. The day one winner was Kathleen Tanner of DLA Piper US LLP. The day two winner was Kris Perryman of Perryman Exploration. Congratulations to Kathleen and Kris from all of us at OGI. We know now, that even if they don't use OGI PowerMap, they won't get lost.

Look for us at NAPE 2009 in February at The George R. Brown Convention Center. We hope to see you there.

The locally famous Indian Meridian in Oklahoma, the beginning and end of OK townships and ranges.

Chronicles of Oklahoma
Volume 5, No. 3
September, 1927
“INITIAL POINT” IN OKLAHOMA
A Bare Stone Shaft Locates Your Lot
By ALVIN RUCKER

Page 328
Where is the most important place in Oklahoma? Each person is entitled to one guess. Each guess is wrong, because the most important place in Oklahoma is not the guesser's home or place of business. The most important place in Oklahoma is also one of the most obscure and most seldom visited, and beyond question, one of the least known spots in the state.

Gather around, mates, and let's listen to a real bedtime story told by encyclopedists, historians, surveyors and soldiers. The most important place in Oklahoma is a point on the boundary line between Murray and Garvin counties. It is a short distance from the place known in history as Fort Arbuckle. From that point every foot of land in an immense area, including all of Oklahoma, except Texas, Cimarron and Beaver counties, is described in legal documents. The area includes Kansas and Nebraska. The highly important point is called the "initial point," suggestive of its importance. It is referred to more often than any other place in Oklahoma. Not an inch of land in the state of Oklahoma, the three Panhandle counties excepted, can be located without reference to that little known, seldom visited spot. The reference, direct or indirect, is in every deed or lease ever written to describe Oklahoma real estate, and will continue to appear, directly or indirectly, in every deed or lease, as long a, civilization, as now constituted, endures in Oklahoma.

In 1866, the federal government acquired from the Indians, by treaties, a large area of land in Indian territory and prepared to subdivide it into townships and sections, foreseeing the time when the whites would settle the land. Indian territory was so remote from established base lines and meridians that the surveyors decided to establish a fictitious base line and a fictitious meridian, the meridian to be known as the Indian Meridian, from which townships would be numbered east and west; the base line to be known as the Indian base line, from which ranges would be numbered north and south. Ranges and townships are similar areas, six miles wide.

A point near Fort Arbuckle was selected as the initial point, and a line surveyed north and south from that point, and the line was named the "Indian Meridian." It is about twelve miles, two townships west of the ninety-seventh meridian west of the Greenwich meridian. The base line is about thirty-six miles north of the thirty-fourth parallel of longitude, and the intersection of those two lines is called the initial point in Oklahoma. Neither of the lines falls upon a 360th division of the globe, based upon the Greenwich meridian and the equator, for the obvious reason that the Greenwich meridian and the equator are too remote to be handily used in describing townships and similar areas in Oklahoma. The
Indian meridian is recognized as far north as South Dakota, there being several towns named Meridian because the towns are close to the Indian Meridian.

The official description of the arbitrary point, taken from the surveyor's, field notes is:

"Initial monument at point between two small streams both having a northerly course, making a junction about twenty chains north.
"Set sandstone 54x18x18, marked on west side I. P., on east side Ind. Mer., and on north side 1870, in a mound of stones six feet in diameter and three feet high, from which flagstaff at Fort Arbuckle bears north seven degrees, thirty-seven minutes west. East end of Messa, bears north 46 degrees, 17 minutes west. East end of Messa bears north 47 degrees, 42 minutes west. East end of Messa bears north 55 degrees, 56 minutes west. Black oak 10 inches in diameter bears north 70 degrees, 11 minutes west 617 links distant. Rock on east side of brook marked thus (111) bears south 14 degrees, 12 minutes east, 1,365 links distant. Cedar eight inches in diameter just left of rock."

Chronicles of Oklahoma
Volume 5, No. 3
September, 1927
“INITIAL POINT” IN OKLAHOMA
A Bare Stone Shaft Locates Your Lot
By ALVIN RUCKER

Brought to our attention By GIS Specialist John T. Smith, OGInfo.com

An old corporate catch phrase that’s been around longer than “outside the box” is nimble:

nim·ble ˈnim bəl -
–adjective, -bler, -blest.
1. quick and light in movement; moving with ease; agile; active; rapid: nimble feet.
2. quick to understand, think, divise, etc.: a nimble mind
3. cleverly contrived: a story with a nimble plot.

What does nimble have to do with GIS you say?Well my brother told me right as I was graduating from high school that college really teaches you one thing and one thing only. He of course was speaking metaphorically about decision making. Being a student of the business college I can now see where he is coming from.

In the past GIS, or drafting in a previous life, has been tucked away in some back office where the “techs” that knew how to draw the lines on the map ruled supreme. Out put was easy and a map could be restyled at the drop of a hat. This was real power but not the power that many mid and upper level managers are demanding out of their GIS systems today.

The “aging out” of the baby boomers and the entry into management of the “young bloods”, who have been raised with a mouse in their hand, expect and even demand high-tech GIS be available for decision making. Back to the one thing college teaches you about decision making and that is “knowledge is power”. Companies that get their GIS data served out and on the desktops of decision makers are unleashing pure unadulterated power.

The brains of the “young bloods” are all wired a bit differently in that they know what a computer can do. Armed with knowledge of how a geospacial query works coupled with the granularity of the results generated this new breed of managers are demanding GIS on every desktop machine. Ten years ago if you would have dropped the word “polygon” in an oil company board room you would have been met with blank stares. Do the same today and you will get questions like “with or without attributes”? It is coming guys so hold on.

James H. Davis, Content
OGInfo.com