Eastern Panhandle GIS Users Group Meeting
The Eastern Panhandle GIS Users Group Meeting is an annual one-day conference designed to highlight local and regional GIS endeavors. The first meeting took place in 2006 with just a handful of GISers and has grown to host about 50-60 attendees every year.
The EPan is located in different county in the West Virginia Eastern Panhandle every year, in an effort to make the conference available to all GIS Users in the area. Over the years it has taken place in several towns, including Charles Town, Shepherdstown, Martinsburg, Berkeley Springs, and Romney.
If you would like to learn more about the Eastern Panhandle GIS Users Group Meeting or would like to volunteer to help with planning a future event, please contact Jessica Gormont (jgormont@jeffersonountywv.org).
2023 - September 28th - Berkeley County, WV
This year's event will be held at the Purple Iris in Martinsburg, WV. For more information, the conference website can be found at https://epan-jcwvgis.hub.arcgis.com/
2022 - September 22nd - Jefferson County, WV
This year's event was held at Charles Washington Hall in Charles Town, WV; our first in-person event since lockdown. We had many wonderful speakers and hope everyone had a great time.
2021 - August 13th - Virtual
EPan was held virtually in 2021. The conference website can be found at https://epan-jcwvgis.hub.arcgis.com/
2020 - Cancelled
Unfortunately, with the uncertainty brought about by current events, we have decided to postpone the Eastern Panhandle GIS Users Group Meeting until Fall of 2021. We hope you will join us next year!
2019 - September 11th - Martinsburg, WV
This year's event was held at the Purple Iris in Martinsburg, WV (Berkeley County).We had one of our largest turnouts ever, with over 60 people in attendance! There were many wonderful presentations, including topics such as transit analysis, tree and water conservation, Next Gen 9-1-1, and more (please see the 2019 agenda below for full details).
Our event even made the local news! To view the video, please click here: DVM Article
If you attended this year's event, please fill out this quick survey and let us know how we did: Survey
An Agenda and Presentations from the event can be downloaded here:
- Agenda - 2019 Eastern Panhandle GIS Users Group Meeting
- Transit Analysis & GIS - Matt Mullenax, HEPMPO
- Charles Town Street Tree Inventory - Kelly Savannah, City of Charles Town
- Private Lands, Public Waters: A Safe Water for WV Conservation Collaborative - Tanner Haid, WVRC
- Inches For Everyone, Everywhere - Christine Iksic & Rose Saville-Iksic
A big Thank You to this year's Sponsors!
- West Virginia Associations of Geospatial Professionals
- Duncan Parnell
- Fugro
- HERE
- Mapillary
- Michael Baker International
- Precision Laser & Instrument
2018 - September 13th - Berkeley Springs, WV
This year's event was held at the Angus & Ale Restaurant in Berkeley Springs, WV (Morgan County). We had a pretty large turnout, over 50 people from all over WV, MD, VA, and more. The day included presentations from ESRI, the City of Martinsburg, Washington County MD, the WV GIS Technical Center, Shepherd University, and a geocaching event hosted by Precision Laser & Instrument. A good time (and good food) was had by all!
An Agenda and Presentations from the event can be downloaded here:
- Agenda - 2018 Eastern Panhandle GIS Users Group Meeting
- "Washington Co. Development Tracker" by Meghan Jenkins
- "Acquiring and Processing UAV Data" by Dr. Sytil Murphy
Congratulations to our Map Competition winners!
- Digital Category: "Soil Carbon and Red Spruce" by Devon Shearer & Elizabeth Young
- Paper Category: "Oglebay Trails Since 1928" by Aaron Arrington
A big Thank You to this year's Sponsors!